Newsgroup: it.fan.startrek
Titolo: Harve Bennett

Tutto bello fino alla parte dell'accademia, ma è una fissazione!
http://www.trektoday.com/content/2010/08/harve-bennett-putting-trek-back-on-track/
After Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Harve Bennett was called in to see if
he could make a better movie for less money. The result was the critically
acclaimed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan followed by three Star Trek
movies after that.
Bennett was a successful television producer with shows like Mod Squad, The
Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman already under his belt. When
asked if he could do a better Trek movie for less money by Gulf & Western
boss Charles Bludhorn, he told them he could make four or five such movies.
“Do it,” said Bludhorn.
When Bennett watched the original series episode Space Seed, he knew he had
what he needed to make a good movie. “It was like God had sent a present
down to me,” he explained. “Space Seed ends having deposited Khan (Ricardo
Montalban) on some desolate planetoid and Kirk, I think it was, saying ‘If
we came back in twenty-five years, I wonder what he’d be like.’ And Spock
says, ‘Hmm.’ I jumped up out of my seat and said, ‘Thank you, God! Thank
you. That’s it. That’s my story.’”
Bennett worked with both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy as directors,
and he found it easier to work with Nimoy than with Shatner. “Leonard came
to me after Wrath of Khan and after his death scene and he said, ‘This is a
lot of fun.’ And it was. We all said it was a very jolly set. He said, ‘I’m
game for another one, but I’d like to direct.’ I said, ‘Terrific. I know
what the next one has to be, and you got it.’
In the fourth movie, there was a little trouble with Nimoy, who felt he was
ready to direct alone, but it was soon resolved. “He got a little more
resentful during Star Trek IV because he figured he had proved himself,”
said Bennett. “So we had a little friction there, but we resolved it and he
went on to do a magnificent job on IV. His emergence as a director was his
skill triumphing over his lack of experience”
But Shatner was a different story. “It is an unpleasant memory. I had a
wonderful relationship with Bill. I could handle him and so forth, but as
chief of the set it was going to be very difficult.” Bennett didn’t like
Shatner’s idea that the story would be about finding God and the two argued
about it. But in the end, the two came to the agreement that “‘OK, we will
never really find God. The journey to try to find God will be the picture.’
That’s the premise on which we proceeded, but the fact of the matter is it
was still a shaggy-dog story. It was a story that could not reach a climax
because you could hint at God, you could present an abstraction, but it
wouldn’t be satisfying dramatically.”
Bennett decided against producing Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
when Paramount decided against his “Starfleet Academy-style” film. “It was
the best script of all and it never got produced,” he said. “…Basically it
was a love story and it was a story of cadets, teenagers. And, in order to
get Shatner and Nimoy in, we had a wraparound in which Kirk comes back to
address the academy and the story spins off of his memory. At the end, Kirk
and Spock are reunited and they beam back up to Enterprise, which would
have left a new series potential, the academy, and a potential other story
with the original Trek cast. All the possibilities were open, the script
was beautiful, and the love story was haunting, but it didn’t happen.”
-- 
Jolan Tru
Filippo "Hytok" Simone
http://perestroika.iobloggo.com/

Tutto bello fino alla parte dell'accademia, ma č una fissazione!
Pensa invece che se ci fosse stato quello, poi non ci sarebbe stato
"star trek: the light of flares".
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"star trek: the light of flares".
Ma non ci sarebbero stati pure altri film bellissimi.
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Ma non ci sarebbero stati pure altri film bellissimi.
non ne vedo il motivo..
*specificando* il "prima" [*], non vedo il motivo di eliminare il
"dopo": se invece *cambi* il "prima" (anche inserendolo in una realtà
alternativa), allora ovviamente è improbabile che si realizzi il
"dopo"
[*]: "prima" e "dopo" si riferiscono al periodo temporale in cui è
ambientata la TOS.
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    A puttane non ci sono mai andato,
  e se ci sono stato, l'ho saputo dopo.

"dopo"
Se avessero fatto quel film sull'accademia, non avrebbero più girato ST6,
quantomeno.
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 ST6, quantomeno.
In una intervista di Bennett di 15 anni fa circa, rivelava che il suo 
piano era fare uno Star Trek: Starfleet Academy prima e uno Star Trek VI 
18 mesi dopo.
Walter Koenig, interpellato a proposito, disse la sua, ovvero che secondo 
lui se Starfleet Academy avesse avuto successo, avrebbero poi proseguito 
su quella linea scaricando il cast classico. 

su quella linea scaricando il cast classico. 
Lo credo anch'io.
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