quote:Originally posted by Axeman 3D: Actually, one of the main reasons Star Trek: The Slow Motion Picture got made was because of Star Wars, not the other way around. They were talking about a new ST series at the time, then Star Wars came out, became the biggest thing ever and Paramount spotted a bandwagon flying past. They immediately dropped the Trek II series and decided on a film instead, which then became more films, which begat TNG, which begat DS-9, etc... Even if you don't like Star Wars (I know of no one who hates it) you have to thank Lucas and it's success for completely reviving sci-fi films and TV for years to come, particularly Trek.
Not quite. Par had already planned doing a feature back in the mid 70s and then cancelled it when SW released, figuring they were too late. This was PLANET OF THE TITANS, which had Nimoy signed and Phil Kaufman to direct. PHASE 2 was announced AFTER Titans cancelled, and TMP only came about many months later.
EDIT ADD-ON: I've seen a few sources indicating GL inquired about buying the rights to TREK (along with FLASH GORDON) in the early 70s, so he was looking for some SF space franchise to pump his mythology stuff into (oddly enough, Phil Kaufman had some mythology aspects to his Trek try, which leveraged off themes from Olaf Stapledon's FIRST AND LAST MEN, an early SF classic.)
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Whatshisface said: "And of course, Bester owes his career to Davy Jones of the Monkees."
I could imagine Chekov singing "Daydream Believer", I could. Yeah. *sigh* But then Jack The Ripper would come up from behind and shove that magic cane up hif aff. Game over, try again.
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quote:Originally posted by WizArtist: Everyone owes "Forbidden Planet" and Jules Verne.
Yeah, but FP owes both Shakespeare AND Freud bigtime. Could you remake it using Jungian concepts to get away from the Id references? (I wonder if this is what screwed up the planned-for remake in the mid-90s, when they had Kershner signed for it, and later on, when Frank Darabont was going to write and direct?)
As good as FP is (there is a great little cut scene on the Criterion laserdisc of the capt and dr outside the ship at night that plays like vintage Kirk/Bones), 50s color film drives me bugfuck, so it is really hard for me to rewatch the movie.
Also, the line, "you sent your secret Id monster out to destroy them" (paraphrase, but close) is as ripe as anything uttered in the worst of season three TOS, right up there with "brain and brain, what is brain?"
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George Lucas was in Beverly Hills Cop III, which is was done by Paramount Pictures, which in turn does Star Trek. There you go.
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George Lucas was in Beverly Hills Cop III, which starred Judge Reinhold who was in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which starred Sean Penn who was in Mystic River which also starred Kevin Bacon!
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*Checks Siegfried's entry* Damnit, I was fo' sho' you were bullshitting there at first. Not that that will make me watch "Beverly Hills Cop 3" again.
Not even wild horses could drag me away to watching "BHC3" again. In fact, there's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do.
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