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Titolo: Intervista al boss di Star Trek XI

Non mi piace, non m'ispira.
http://www.syfyportal.com/article.php?id=1764
Jendresen: Star Trek Needs Epic Adventure
Author: Michael Hinman
Date: 03-09-2005
Source: SyFy Portal
Next year, it will be 40 years since Gene Roddenberry's vision of "Star
Trek" first came to life on the small screen.
Through those years, there's been plenty of ups and downs for the millions
of fans who have followed the adventures of Capt. James T. Kirk, Capt.
Jean-Luc Picard, Capt. Benjamin Sisko, Capt. Kathryn Janeway, and even
Capt. Jonathan Archer -- whose time aboard "Star Trek: Enterprise" ends
early this May on UPN.
With Star Trek not pulling in the viewers and the revenue as it once did,
is Paramount still willing to keep the Roddenberry torch burning?
Erik Jendresen thinks so. Name doesn't ring a bell? Soon it will, as he has
been commissioned by Paramount to write the 11th Star Trek film. And for
the first time in history, a new slate of characters, as well as a new
cast, will be introduced on the big screen. But that's just the beginning
of the new Star Trek.
"I can certainly say that the story concept, the basic idea of this thing,
is pretty damn big," Jendresen recently told SyFy Portal's Michael Hinman.
"It's a noble enterprise, pun intended."
Jendresen -- probably best known for his Emmy-award winning work as a
producer and lead writer for HBO's "Band of Brothers" -- said he wasn't too
interested in stepping into science-fiction. And when Paramount officials
first came to him about doing Star Trek, his answer was an immediate no.
"I was not a diehard Star Trek fan," he said. "When they first approached
me, I wasn't really interested. But they said, 'What if we could approach
this as a blank slate, and here's a notion.' When I heard the notion, I
realized that the people I was talking to were serious, and genuinely
dedicated. I started to really think about it, and, ultimately to develop a
story. And it's a pretty good one."
Reports of the next movie have it taking place after the events of "Star
Trek: Enterprise" and before the adventures of James Kirk in the original
"Star Trek" series. Jendresen confirmed that the movie would take place
more than a century before Kirk, but acknowledged that it would not be an
"Enterprise" spinoff.
Although he had only some passing knowledge of Star Trek in the past,
Jendresen said he really started to look into the heart of Roddenberry's
vision to find the lost path of telling good science-fiction.
"I read an interesting piece online about the relevance of Star Trek,"
Jendresen said. "It posed the idea that maybe it's not relevant anymore. It
was an impressive argument, but a fine story is always relevant, and I
think solid storytelling that's rooted in the absolute spirit of the
original series is what it was all about to begin with."
The original series you say?
"In the original series, there were big ideas, and they were delivered each
week with a lot of verve," Jendresen said. "The crew in particular, lead by
a commanding officer who had a certain sense of timeless style, boldness
and vision. He had a pioneering spirit, the spirit of all great explorers,
that was captured by the original series."
After the original series went off the air in the 1960s, Jendresen said a
lot of that was lost, with a few exceptions. And now that four decades have
passed, he said it's time to find it again.
"'Star Trek,' the original series, borrowed in an often elegant way from
classic mythology and great ancient storytelling," he said. "There's
something kind of epic - almost mythic about the prequel (movie)."
Bringing in Jendresen was an attempt to go outside of the current realm of
Star Trek, and focus more on an actual story, Jendresen said. It's similar
to what happened in the early 1980s when Nicholas Meyer came on board to
create "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." There was a realness about it,
and moviewatchers had to stop and think.
But that's something that doesn't have to be relegated to the past.
"There's an old tradition in space films, if you think about it, where war
and conflict are very sterile," Jendresen said. "Death doesn't hurt, it's
not really ugly. You can get killed by a phaser and just … disintegrate.
"We're going 160-odd years before Kirk is born. It's an earlier time, and I
think it would be really refreshing to feel something in the course of
telling this tale, instead of being wowed by special effects, or presenting
another crew in jeopardy where, in the end, the captain does something
brilliant, and all’s right with the world.”
And that means not everything will end with a chuckle, laugh and some
smiles when this film is over.
"By the end of this story, everyone isn't fine," Jendresen said. "I can
safely say as a storyteller with certain standards…my intention is
literally as a writer, as a storyteller, as a filmmaker, to go boldly where
no one has gone before."
With the cancellation of "Enterprise," and reports of what actress Jolene
Blalock (Cmdr. T'Pol) described as an "appalling" finale, Jendresen said
he's well aware that there's a lot of anger out there. But he said he
definitely is working on something that fans can look forward to.
"There is a lot of misinformation out there, negative speculation and
ill-will,” Jendresen said. "Everybody just needs to just take a Romulan
chill pill and have some faith. Everything that has gone down over the last
few years has not been lost on the gentlemen involved in this effort. I
think it would be wonderful to bring a whole new generation into this
world."
In the meantime, while "Star Trek XI" moves forward in the pre-production
stage, Jendresen is staying busy with other projects. He recently wrote
"Journey to thte Center of the Earth" for Twentieth Century Fox, and has
worked on other screenplays for Paramount, Dreamworks, and even National
Geographic Feature Films.
Reports have "Star Trek XI" being released sometime in 2007. No director
and no cast has been brought in, but it is clear that characters from other
Star Trek properties will not be included.
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oramai s'e' capito che b&b non sanno che pesci prendere.
Braga non c'entra più nulla, ripeto. E' ufficiale. Lo scrivo in maiuscolo?
:)))
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 Non mi piace, non m'ispira.
un altro prequel.
oramai s'e' capito che b&b non sanno che pesci prendere.
non hanno idea di come gestire o evolvere l'universo di gene...
e non ne hanno alcun rispetto. :(
se ST non va' in mano a un vero scrittore come ad es peter david
sara' un susseguirsi di inutili e (inevitabilmente) brutti prequel ;(
mrt^^ 

sara' un susseguirsi di inutili e (inevitabilmente) brutti prequel ;(
Non quoto tutto per rispetto alla netiquette ma mi associo
incondizionatamente alla critica. :-)
-- 
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 of the new Star Trek.
Considerando come B&B abbiano sempre mostrato una certa tendenza
ad "ispirarsi ad altri", tipo:
Babylon 5               -->  Deep Space 9
"prequel di Star Wars"  -->  Enterprise
Questa idea di un film da cui poi ha origine una nuova serie
mi ricorda qualcosa ...
Secondo voi si "ispireranno" piu a Buffy oppure ad SG1 ?
L. Micheletto

Secondo voi si "ispireranno" piu a Buffy oppure ad SG1 ?
Boh, Buffy non ha punti di contatto con Star Trek, Sg1 è esso stesso
ispirato a TNG... non so, mi basterebbe che venisse fatto con "buona
creanza".
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 creanza".
Quello che segue e' frutto di una mente malata, quindi
non prendete la cosa troppo sul serio:
"Pseudo Buffy" --> "Starfleet Accademy"
     con un cadetto/a geneticamente potenziato per contrastare
     infiltrazioni di agenti ostili nella flotta stellare
     e (sorpresa, sorpresa) ce ne sono a bizzeffe che cercano
     di inserire spie come personale dell'accademia o come cadetti.
"Pseudo Stargate SG1" --> "Star Trek: Prime Directive"
     le avventure delle squadre di primo contatto ed esplorazione
     della Sezione 42, che gestisce la sicurezza dei team
     di osservazione presso civilta con cui non e' ancora avvenuto
     un primo contatto ufficiale e che garantisce se necessario
     con la forza il rispetto della prima direttiva.
C'e' comunque da dire che ci sono infinite possibilita
per realizzare una nuova serie di eccellente livello, ma se si
lascia la cosa in mano ai soliti noti il risultato e' destinato
ad essere mediocre.
Per esempio, sarebbe possibile fare una serie sulla caduta
e rinascita delle federazione, nelle mani giuste sarebbe
una cosa grandiosa, ma se fatta male distruggerebbe davvero
tutto l'universo narrativo di Star Trek.
L. Micheletto

tutto l'universo narrativo di Star Trek.
  Si chiama Andromeda, si e' gia' infognata di suo senza B&B, non oso
pensare ad una versione ancora piu' fetecchia.
-- 
  Ciao :-)
  Massimo
Nell'indirizzo, sostituire "micio" con "mc"

Star Trek XI , si può leggere la trama da qualche parte , magari in italiano
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Star Trek XI , si può leggere la trama da qualche parte , magari in italiano
Non c'è mica ancora, una trama. :-) Ti posso riassumere in due righe quel
che si sa finora.
-spoiler-
Niente guerre romulane, il film dovrebbe essere ambientato dieci anni dopo
il primo volo a curvatura fatto da Zefram Cochrane, e non vedrà apparire
alcun personaggio già visto nelle altre serie.
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 alcun personaggio già visto nelle altre serie.
brrr, al momento non mi attira neanche un po'
ciao
BLADELA
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"Forse oggi è il giorno giusto per Dormire"

brrr, al momento non mi attira neanche un po'
A chi lo dici...
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 A chi lo dici...
erano riusciti a riportare sulla buona strada Enterprise...grrrr
ciao
BLADELA
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"Forza ME!"

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Non a caso ho scritto "nelle mani giuste" e non a caso
ho evitato di citare Andromeda. ;-)
L. Micheletto

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OKAY ! Grazie.