Re: "Star Trek" movie pushed back to May '09

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 "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> "Brian Thorn" <bthorn64@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:42:44 -0600, "Ken from Chicago"
> >> > <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>> The writers strike screwed up everyone's schedules? Delays don't
mean
> >> >>> a movie is doomed... look at "Titanic".
> >> >
> >> >>Then why not blame the strike instead of a lame expectation of
getting
> >> >>better revenue in the Summer than December? Sorry, the insider 
> >> >>explanation
> >> >>is weak.
> >> >
> >> > Because they don't want to admit that the strike screwed up their
> >> > plans (and thus make future strikes more likely)? This isn't rocket
> >> > science, Ken...
> >> >
> >> > Brian
> >>
> >> Of course they don't want to admit that. But it seemed like a) they
could
> >> have come up with a more plausible aka not nearly so obviously 
> >> transparently
> >> lame excuse and b) why would a movie scheduled for a year away be 
> >> delayed?
> >> Don't they have the script done already?
> >>
> >> -- Ken from Chicago
> >
> > Not a good one.
> >
> > -- 
> > Star Trek 09:
> >
> > No Shat, No Show.
> 
> Wow.
> 
> How bad a script has to be for them to delay it--considering they
greenlit 
> STX?
> 
> -- Ken from Chicago 

Paramount doesn't greenlight scripts; they greenlight schedules.  If the 
script is ready or not doesn't matter.  It does become a problem if 
there's a writer's strike however.

Exception:  Generations.  Nimoy told them he'd do the film but he'd have 
to fix the script.  They told him they were committed to the script as 
is.  So they lost Spock and McCoy, and gave their no-longer-making-sense 
lines to Scotty and Chekov.

A friend points out that this actually works in Generations favor.  
Spock and McCoy wouldn't have just accepted Kirk was dead and gone about 
their lives -- they'd have gone and got him out.

-- 
Star Trek 09:

No Shat, No Show.