So much of who is and his actions made no sense other than that’s what the script said. Star Trek is not for everyone. Not disputing your conclusion at all, but I’d be surprised if 60 was the actual final figure on NEM, it was probably a bit higher than that. Simon Pegg gives disappointing update on the future of Star Trek, © 2020 Looper.com. I think you could do a wonderful Star Trek movie — blockbuster level — using the budget for a single season of current Trek TV. I think he was saying most 10 mil movies in the 70s would only break even at something above 40 mil, given P&A (which weren’t the obscene numbers they are now, even percentagewise to the film’s actual cost. The next trek movie needs to take queues from Voyage Home and some from II & VI. Marvel movies have a broad appeal and make more money. It was over 30′ tall. NEM didn’t have a big budgetsucker like the Ba’ku village set, but Digital Domain was not a cheap VFX outfit (on RED PLANET, they actually had a deal where if the studio didn’t use at least a certain percentage of their work, it triggered a giant penalty payout, they clearly had some scary-smart/cunning lawyers), so the effects on NEM would have been a bigger outlay than on INS. That’s true and probably why most likely this cast is done. Basically all the spectacle stuff, while cool, did not add much to the enjoyment of the movie. Depending on who you ask here CBS isn’t doing any better with their Trek shows than Paramount with the Kelvin movies. Search for Spock made $87M. | Between 1998 and 2004, Pegg was regularly featured on BBC Radio 4's The 99p Challenge. CBS kicked off the prequel series Star Trek: Discovery in 2017, and Star Trek: Picard in January 2020. You can get the original version of TOS along with the remastered on blu ray. You don’t like TVH, but most do. In Early April Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard composer Jeff Russo, who works closely with Hawley, said he had spoken to Hawley about the story for his Star Trek film and found it “exciting.” Later in April, it was reported that Paramount was still waiting on a script for the next Star Trek film, as they looked to work with Chris Pine again on a reboot of The Saint. Beyond was in over 5,000 screens in China alone including hundreds of IMAX screens. That’s more than double what most of these entire productions were even if you INCLUDE inflation. Based on all this, I suspect that ST2009 actually made more profit, but it’s certainly possible that this is basically a wash in guesstimating the profit of each. Exactly, Star Trek will never be Star Wars or Marvel. People want to know why so many people want to be actors, that’s why lol. We’re moving on from the JJ/Orci/Pegg era to get a new take now on the Trek films anyway. I also think fans are getting tired of all the articles coming out with conflicting info.

I am hoping that Orci’s abandoned Trek 3 script is made public at some point. Pegg's other credits include appearances in the World War II mini-series Band of Brothers; the television comedies Black Books, Brass Eye and I'm Alan Partridge; and the films The Parole Officer, 24 Hour Party People, and Guest House Paradiso. Just no. Mister Scott, I understand you’re having difficulty with the warp drive. “I’m not discounting anything.

(He's not alone: let's just say that when it comes to the Star Trek cast's all-time favorite moments, there are a lot of options.). The problem is your entire comparison is a false equivalency from the start. Trek V had one of the biggest laughs in any of the movies. Star Trek should focus on smaller self contained stories and less on spectacle. The TV side of Star Trek is alive and well. ***) Let’s hope Anson Mount has some production credit/power to contractually stand up to bad story/direction decisions. Emma D’Arcy on Simon Pegg & Nick Frost’s Truth Seekers, corpsing on set and the troubling future of theatre, 26 October 2020 (Triple ***ugh. and didn’t want to leave because he didn’t know how to repair the ship or was waiting for Starfleet to get him or.. idk. the weird macguffin made little sense either. Same time though they are literally paying the same budgets that those films cost, so eventually something just has to give. Star Trek being progressive is a better word for it. But Pegg’s new remarks once again throw doubts over the possibility of another film – although thankfully for Trekkies, there’s plenty of other  content to gorge on in the meantime, including Star Trek: Picard, an upcoming third run of Star Trek: Discovery and new animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Star Trek should arrive for equality and justice.

When what they should have done is kept the budget the same (or increased it incrementally), and spent any extra money on the marketing and advertising.

Mixing this three factors, I see nothing in Simon Pegg point. (Jimmy Doohan had a nuanced comedic approach which didn’t veer into overkill in most scenes. Agreed. It feels like the more Trek reaches out to the general audience the less Trek they actually get. The whole idea of making a movie for a reasonable price must never have entered anyone’s head during the Kelvin era. ), Re:which made more money dollar-for-dollar than ST:TMP. He seemed to be goofing around all the time, this makes it kinda hard to convince the viewers that this guys is a chief engineer. Pegg and his wife, Maureen, live in London with their daughter, Matilda. Sorry for bringing up Downey Jr once more, but he went from $500,000 for Iron Man 1 to 10 million base salary for Iron Man 2.

Abrams ’09 has so much cool stuff… but again… Nero contradicts his own revenge plot by going back in time and not just saving Romulus. **Ugh.**. Exactly.

Any ticket receipts from exhibitions, after that, was pure gravy.

So yes, the obvious thing to do would be to not go for that massive spectacle, go for something a little bit more restrained in the vein of the original series. Enter the email address associated with your account and we'll send you a link to reset your password. It’s not that complicated and it’s not really about whether it should be on TV or not. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. He followed that with Run, Fatboy, Run, which also opened in the top spot in the U.K. Just prior to his first appearance as Scotty in Star Trek, he starred in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, with Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox and Gillian Anderson. Not interested in seeing yet another rebooted cast or Discovery cast either. Try doing it for $100-125m or just above no need for endless VFX blowouts just aim for another TWOK story with way more crew interaction with each other & a few lengthy scenes will reduce a lot of budget! Wasn’t that literally the problem with the last time? More than enough for a blockbuster-class film. And I’m certainly not getting on Pine or anyone’s case if think they deserve more money. They can still be bigger movies but they have to have budgets that reflect something more realistic of what a Trek movie can bring in if they want to keep making them.

I know a movie will happen at some point, but who knows when? The product placement ties-in seemed near-invisible. Krall was not very well thought out at all. Then you get Beyond… Where there was little promotion even in the USA. It will never be a global behemoth that is universally known. Save up to £497* a year -Compare Lots of Deals - Switch in Minutes. At the rate things are going we will be lucky if another movie is out before 2025. Fans hoping to see Pegg's Scotty in Noah Hawley's upcoming, very mysterious Star Trek project also got some bad news. In 2018, talks between Paramount and Chris Pine and potential star Chris Hemsworth fell through over the issue of salaries. Also, the Kelvin cast, they were more relaxed and funny than the first one. Add in all the others and you were probably looking at 30 million just for the cast. No elements of TVH. Simon Pegg in ‘Star Trek Beyond’ He continued: “One of the comments he said, he’s like, ‘Well, look, it’s not going to be Pulp Fiction in space.’ Yes, it is!