Star Trek IX
Don't look now but Star Trek IX is just around the corner
This page is going to be devoted solely to disputing the
rumors going around
out there about the next Trek film. Who is/who isn't in
it, who's directing,
who's producing, who's writing etc etc etc.
Current Star Trek IX News
Below are the current goings-on in the upcoming Trek
movie.
* {July 15} A Senior VP at Paramount (name withheld--
those of you who
surf the AOL Trek boards know who I'm talking about) who
is overseeing
the development of ST9, responded to an E-Mail I sent him
last week
asking him if he could confirm the Patrick Stewart fiasco
(as reported
below this article) had THIS to say:
Thanks for the note. The rumor that you posted to me has
no basis in
reality. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
There's
really nothing more I can add. It's totally baseless.
Now wether or not you believe me that I coresponded with
this man, I
really could care less. I'll let my track record speak for
itself. =)
* {July 10}PATRICK STEWART PULLS THE PLUG ON STAR TREK 9!
(this was ONLY
a rumor)
Yes, yet another sensational headline. But here's the
skinny: Patrick
Stewart's $12 million dollar contract for the next Star
Trek feature
includes one powerful clause: he has the right to refuse
scripts. And
guess what just happened...Stewart has rejected Michael
Piller and Rick
Berman's outline and initial draft! So fellas, whether you
subscribe to
the "Picard is a Romulan" (FAKE), "Data dies of Borg AIDS"
(BOGUS!),
"Lore Attacks the Federation" (AS IF!) or the more
accurate
"Heart-of-Darkness-esque" (the only one backed up by a
trade magazine
blurb) rumored storylines for Star Trek 9, you might as
well throw them
out the window, because Mikey and Ricky are going back to
the drawing
board...
* {July 7}ST9 Info from Michael Piller
[NOTE: This information comes from the Official Star Trek
Fan Club of
the UK, from an interview with Michael Piller.]
Star Trek IX (no working title as yet)
Cast - All 7 original cast members
Lore (Brent Spiner)
Bruce Maddox (Brian Brophy)
Possibility of DS9 and Voyager guest stars (strong
possibility = Robert
Picardo) More to be announced
Plot tidbits -
The re-activation of a supposedly psychologically stable
Lore, takes a
turn for the worse, when Lore has a personal score to
settle with Data
and the USS Enterprise. Seizing control of a new and
highly advanced
Federation Warship (built to fight the Borg and Dominion).
The
Enterprise and crew find themselves out-matched and
out-gunned in this
seemingly no-win scenario.
The film may involve a major sacrifice on Data's part
Due to the popularity of internal conflict between Picard
and Worf in
First Contact, expect more in this film, especially
between Picard and
Data.
Piller was careful to take all the best elements from the
previous Trek
films, particularly the Wrath Of Khan.
Expect explosive action, and nailbiting tension.
* {June 8}New plot rumor going around out there.Click here
for more
details
* {June 3}NEW YORK (Variety) - In a deal just sealed with
Paramount,
Patrick Stewart will boldly go where no Starship
Enterprise captain has
gone before.
Stewart will be paid $12 million in a multifaceted pact
that revolves
around him reprising his role as Captain Picard in the
next "Star Trek"
film. As part of the pact, Stewart will also be the film's
associate
co-producer and get a three-year, first-look deal with
Par.
Stewart received $5 million for the last film, "Star Trek:
First
Contact," which grossed $92 million domestically. That's
the best
"Trek" picture performance since 1986's "The Voyage Home,"
which
grossed $109 million.
He hasn't abandoned theater, either: he'll play the title
role in
"Othello," surrounded by a black cast, which runs at
D.C.'s Shakespeare
Theatre from November to January.
Meanwhile, Paramount is hard at work on the next "Trek"
film, being
scripted by Michael Piller under the supervision of senior
VP Don
Granger. Piller's script has been likened to Joseph
Conrad's "Heart of
Darkness," providing a tour de force acting opportunity
for Stewart.
"Trek" star Jonathan Frakes, who directed the last pic, is
expected to
pull double duty again. Par is still working out deals
with other cast
members. Brent Spiner is expected to get near $5 million
to reprise his
role as Data.
* {June 2}Sci-Fi Universe Magazine noted about the next
Trek film is that
Frakes in "likely" to direct.
* {June 1}Mike Piller was on Sci-fi Vortex yesterday and
he discussed a
few things about the next Trek film:
1) It will involve Time Travel. (I know, NOT AGAIN but
let's see how
it's going to be done before we judge too quickly.)
2) There will be a conflict between Picard and Data that
will be pretty
big. (Ummmm... )
3) It will involve some old enemy who will be defeated.
(hmmmm... I'm
NOT going to sceculate but I think it's going to be ______
;) )
4) The character of Picard will be changed from the events
in this
movie. (This could be interesting....)
5) There will be some type of 'good Data/ bad Data' going
on in the
film. (I'm not going to go on record for saying ANYTHING
here but I
think from the comment in #3 it will be.....)
6) Basically it looks like the story will revolve around
Data and
Picard.
7) MP and Rick Berman are working on the story and it will
'further the
franchise.
Now there are a couple of things I would like to say.
First off, I'm
not too sure that Piller was just pulling our legs. Just
before Piller
spilled the beans, another one of the guests was asked
what he DIDN'T
want to see in the next film. He said:
"Time travel, good Data/bad Data, another villian from the
series
ruined..."
To which Piller answered: "I can't go into the specifics
about the film
yet but what I CAN say is that it DOES involve time
travel, good Data
bad Data and another villian to ruin from the series>"
Now when he said this, he sounded a like he was kidding
but then again,
you never know.
* {May 20} The Gates McFadden report is now reversed. She
is now
reportedly interested in the next story after being told
that she DOES
in fact have a larger part.
* {May 5} Patrick Stewart has just signed on for Star
Trek:IX. No word
yet on the size of his paycheck.
* {April 27th} Gates McFadden MAY NOT return to play Dr.
Beverly Crusher.
Sources say that McFadden is "tired" of playing the
blonde/red-headed
Doctor and wants to persue other projects. Berman has
mentioned
bringing back Dr. Polaski (eeewwwww).
* {Early April} HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - The ninth "Star
Trek" movie looks
likely to lift off during the 1998 holiday season.
No cast or director is attached to the as-yet-untitled
project, but a
veteran series scribe has been hired to write the script.
It will once
again revolve around the crew of the Next Generation
series.
While the scribe, Michael Piller, wouldn't offer any
specifics of the
new film's storyline, he promised the picture would
feature a "strong
character arc for (the Starship Enterprise captain
Jean-Luc) Picard."
Piller will develop the story with the film's producer,
Rick Berman.
Piller began his association with Starfleet Command in
1989, joining
creators Gene Roddenberry and Berman for the third season
of "Star
Trek: The Next Generation," on which he spent five seasons
as executive
producer and head writer.
He went on to co-create with Berman "Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine," which
he executive produced for three years before turning the
show over to
Ira Steven Behr. After that he co-created "Star Trek:
Voyager" with
Berman and Jeri Taylor, with whom he exec produced the
series for two
years.
Released over a period of 17 years, the eight "Star Trek"
features have
collectively amassed about $642 million at the domestic
box office.
Piller, who remains a creative consultant on both "Deep
Space" and
"Voyager," recently has begun to develop what he describes
as the first
action-adventure drama for the Internet.
Reuters/Variety
* {February} Rick Berman HAS been retained by Paramount to
produce the
next film.
* Everyone is signed to do the film except for Spiner and
Stewart who
sign on "per-film" insead of the others having signed for
three films.
* NO, repeat, NO director has been set
* Both Ron Moore and Brannon Braga have both told
Paramount that they
don't wish to script the movie.
Here's what Ron Moore said about the situation:
I will not be working on the next film for what are purely
personal
creative reasons. Paramount is ready to begin development
of the next
TNG film right now (early March), and I'm not. It's really
not much
more complex than that. This is not to say that I'm burned
out on the
franchise or uninterested in the characters, or sick of
Trek, or
anything else. I'm just not ready to sit down and begin
talking about
Picard and Data again. I'm not creatively at a place where
I feel I can
do my best work on another TNG movie. Paramount and Star
Trek have both
been VERY good to me and given me a huge boost to my
career and I don't
want to give them anything less than my best work in
return.
Plot Rumors
Below are the rumors that have been floating around about
the movie. NONE of
what is about to be said here is true.
#1. The Data Swan Song movie idea: Star Trek:
Transgressions
Below is an article written by who-knows-who which was
supposedly an
"interview" with Brent Spiner...
* Supposedly Brent Spiner is tired of playing Data and
wants to close the
book on Data. He also co-wrote the next script where Data
contracts
some sort of Virus which is slowly eating away at Data.
A`la the AIDS
virus. Supposedly it's going to be a tear jerker.
#2. The "Civil War" movie idea:
As reported earlier, there was a story posted here
regarding a Civil War
within the Federation. Well it turns out it was an April
#3. Star Trek:Nemesis
Perhaps the LONGEST running rumor about the film. If
memory serves, it's
about the Romulans or something to that effect.
#4. Star Trek:Transfigurations
Q is supposed to zap the crew into a mirror dimension more
simialar to the
one Kirk and crew visited then the DS9 one, though aren't
they the same?
Well anyways they meet an admiral Picard and a Captain
Riker
Other Rumors:
* Adam Nimoy (son of Leonard Nimoy) is set to direct.
* Jonathan Frakes, Robert Duncan MacNeil and LeVar Burton
have also
expressed interest in directing it.
If you heard a rumor... mail me and let me know so I can
post it here!
Well folks.... that's it! As I told you before... if
you've heard a rumor
and you want to find out if it's true or not, mail me and
let me know!
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