Post by Talya Marsh on Nov 25, 2002 20:26:46 GMT -5
This from TrekToday and Cinescape.com:
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While talking about the 10th film in the Star Trek franchise this weekend with CINESCAPE, dubbed Star Trek: Nemesis, executive producer and Star Trek head honcho Rick Berman let loose that he is certain that an eleventh film in the ever popular series will be made, regardless of how Nemesis performs at the box office when it hits theaters on December 13th.
"I can tell you now that we'll be making another film," Berman says. "There has never been a Star Trek movie that wasn't profitable for Paramount. One of the things about Star Trek is there's no risk in making them because the studio know that if you spend this much money on producing the film, you are going to make that much money, or you might make that much money. But there is pretty much a window of the profitability of these films... unlike non-Star Trek films which could be total wrecks and not make a dime, or could take off and make $200 million, there is a risk involved. There is very little risk involved in Star Trek films, so I think we're a long way from seeing the end."
Paramount's ad campaign for Nemesis seems to imply that this might just the last of the Next Generation films, and while Berman is not ready to write off Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E yet, he is wiiling to discuss an idea that has been thrown about over the years in Trek circles: the notion of combing characters from various Trek incarnations to create a sort of smorgasbord cast for the next movie.
"As to whether the next film will include these [TNG] character or a combination of these characters with other characters from other series, [or] new characters-that's all yet to be discussed. And that won't happen [the] Saturday morning [After Nemesis opens] hopefully," he laughs. "They usually give me a couple months to breathe"
"I can tell you now that we'll be making another film," Berman says. "There has never been a Star Trek movie that wasn't profitable for Paramount. One of the things about Star Trek is there's no risk in making them because the studio know that if you spend this much money on producing the film, you are going to make that much money, or you might make that much money. But there is pretty much a window of the profitability of these films... unlike non-Star Trek films which could be total wrecks and not make a dime, or could take off and make $200 million, there is a risk involved. There is very little risk involved in Star Trek films, so I think we're a long way from seeing the end."
Paramount's ad campaign for Nemesis seems to imply that this might just the last of the Next Generation films, and while Berman is not ready to write off Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E yet, he is wiiling to discuss an idea that has been thrown about over the years in Trek circles: the notion of combing characters from various Trek incarnations to create a sort of smorgasbord cast for the next movie.
"As to whether the next film will include these [TNG] character or a combination of these characters with other characters from other series, [or] new characters-that's all yet to be discussed. And that won't happen [the] Saturday morning [After Nemesis opens] hopefully," he laughs. "They usually give me a couple months to breathe"
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I mean first he says that it is unlikely we will see the return of Captain Sisko, but than he said that any thing is possible in trek. I think that is why ENT and the last few seasons of voyager are bad, because berman has this philosophy and really is not able to write consistantly good stories like moore, piller, or Ira Behr.