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Star
Wars pushes the Enterprise into the early
21st century
About
two weeks ago, Star Trek producer had
announced that the Tenth Star Trek
movie was in early development --
somewhere around the "What do you think
the next Star Trek movie should be about?"
stage. No ideas were revealed, no stories
told, but it seems such an early admission
was indicative of Paramount's pressure on
the Trek franchise to come up with another
hit or face extinction.
At
this point, though, it looks like
Berman
may be out of luck when it comes to the
movies. Jonathan Frakes, who's rumored to
be starring in a possible new Trek TV
series, has gone out of his way to say
that there ain't gonna be a new Trek movie
any time soon. According to a statement to
the New York Daily News, Frakes has
stated, "Patrick
Stewart doesn't want to do one for about
three years, and the studio wisely
believes we should let the Star Wars films
come and go before we get back on the
ship."
If
we go by the timeline, the earliest
possible date to start a movie would be
around 2001, once Patrick Stewart becomes
interested in captaining again. Add in a
year or two for filming and
post-production, and we're in 2003 before
you see the Enterprise-E on the big screen
again (if
rumors are true, you will be seeing it
again for the last episode of Deep Space
Nine).
If the Trek crew must be delayed even
further, then we may not see another Trek
film until after 2005, after the last Star
Wars movie comes out (that is, if the new
Star Wars films are as good as we hope
they are).
Maybe
it's all for the best. If absence makes
the heart grow fonder, then a couple years
absence from the box office could make
fans all the more rabid to see it when it
finally arrives.
Source:
Daily
Sci-Fi "The
Den"
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