The Shat Has Been Tapped To Be in Trek Number 3

One thing I read about movie scripts: what gets put to film can be radically different from what the writer originally wrote. The writer's script gets picked up by a studio, studio guys put in their two cents, script gets re-written, rinse and repeat....then actors are cast and THEY put their two cents in if they've got enough pull to do so. Ya notice how it seems like certain actors (*cough* Will Ferrel *cough*) seem to play the same characters with nearly identical lines? That's why.

Oh, the best part? Sometimes the studio won't even tell you that the film is being made/corrected after TIIC have bought the script. Ride Along, for example, was boughtin 2007 and just got filmed last year.

It's like Christmas when you're got all your aunts trying to cook the same turkey four different ways and succeeding at none.

And actors have said that there have been times when they've signed on to do a film, only to have the script completely rewritten after they've signed the contract into something which was complete dreck. If they've got enough pull, they can get the problems fixed, other times they can't. Samuel L. Jackson has had some choice words for folks in the movie industry and how little many of them understand the industry.

One major problem is that in many creative industries you have people feeling a need to justify their presence, so they feel they must stamp their mark on a production.

Star Trek: Days of Future Past

This is The Shat, not sure he'd sign up to being sat in a chair.

Strutting around the bridge singing The Real Slim Shady at Pine however...

You know, I'd actually pay to see that JJ Abrams movie...

That happened to Brad Pitt with "The Devils Own". He loved the script and worked for years to get it made. Then Harrison Ford came onboard and changed it around so much that Pitt wanted to drop off the project entirely.

I have a few friends in the biz (including some names that would be very recognizable to sci-fi geeks) and I know at least two of them became millionaires writing scripts that never made it to screen.

The sun sets on an alien world, the golden sunlight cascading across rust-red stone, the only sound that of a dry, warm wind licking the peak of a weather-warn rock face. Suddenly, the deep, low whine of an impulse engine gets louder and louder, the constant desert wind replaced by the buffeted, mechanical thrust of exhaust. A burst of blue light shines against the rock as the scream of a transporter beam engulfs an unseen character before the impulse engine fades. A sharp crack of sound rumbles through the sky like distant thunder as the view pans towards a pile of stones stacked carefully in a pile; at the base, a long-disused Starfleet insignia. The sound of one of the stones tumbling down the stack clatters through the quiet valley, followed by another, and another. A hand bursts through the side of the pile of rocks, sleeved in soft, white cotton dirtied by the dusty desert air, before, finally, the entire pile starts to shift and slide away, revealing an aged figure as he sits up slowly.

Kirk: Thought he'd never leave.

It would seem to be confirmed by a two word tweet from the man himself.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...er-teases-his-return-738628?facebook_20141006

That's not a real confirmation, only fan boy wishful thinking, though it does still seem pretty likely that we'll see the Shat in AwesomeTrek™ 3.

Saw this linked in the story:

http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/376797?KSID=a0cc30aafe3399e9d14c94f3e2d05670

It might simply confirm what we already knew, but Robert Orci says:

• AwesomeTrek™ 3 will release in 2016 (for 50th anniversary)
• Enterprise will be in the midst of the five year mission
• as such, the story takes place in deep space, so no chance to destroy San Francisco or London
• the main characters will more closely resemble their TOS analogs, since it will be the same time frame as the show.

Fuck yeah!

Yep, turns out the "I'm baaaack", was about something else.
I got fooled (once again) by legit sources running with it.
Get your shit together, internet!