137th Gebirg
March 11th, 2005, 10:34 AM
Hello, all.
I know this might seem a bit off-topic, but the new writer for the next Star Trek movie has been selected (Erik Jendersen) and he has some interesting views on what direction he would like to take the franchise. He makes particular mention to the use of "mythology" in the original series to invoke a certain emotional response - something Battlestar Galactica has always done in both its incarnations. He also wants to portray a more gritty and realistic view of humans in space. It would appear that Neo-BSG's unqualified success has had a serious impact on the future of Science Fiction. Article and link follows:
Erik Jendresen, who has been commissioned to write the screenplay for the eleventh Star Trek feature film with an all-new set of characters, said that the original series borrowed "in an often elegant way" from mythology and that he would like to return to a grittier type of emotion for the franchise.
"There's an old tradition in space films, if you think about it, where war and conflict are very sterile," Jendresen told SyFy Portal. "Death doesn't hurt, it's not really ugly. You can get killed by a phaser and just...disintegrate."
For the new film, whose story concept he called "pretty damn big," Jendresen said that he wanted to take an audience into an era before Kirk is born, where things aren't tied up comfortably at the end. "By the end of this story, everyone isn't fine," he explained. "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."
An Emmy-award winning writer and producer for HBO's Band of Brothers, Jendresen recently wrote Journey to thte Center of the Earth for 20th Century Fox but had no great desire to be involved with more science fiction. "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.'" He began to develop a story, "and it's a pretty good one." The eleventh Star Trek film remains in very early stages at Paramount, and no director has been suggested. The original interview is at SyFy Portal (http://www.syfyportal.com/article.php?id=1764) at http://www.syfyportal.com/.
From TrekToday at http://www.trektoday.com/news/100305_01.shtml
I know this might seem a bit off-topic, but the new writer for the next Star Trek movie has been selected (Erik Jendersen) and he has some interesting views on what direction he would like to take the franchise. He makes particular mention to the use of "mythology" in the original series to invoke a certain emotional response - something Battlestar Galactica has always done in both its incarnations. He also wants to portray a more gritty and realistic view of humans in space. It would appear that Neo-BSG's unqualified success has had a serious impact on the future of Science Fiction. Article and link follows:
Erik Jendresen, who has been commissioned to write the screenplay for the eleventh Star Trek feature film with an all-new set of characters, said that the original series borrowed "in an often elegant way" from mythology and that he would like to return to a grittier type of emotion for the franchise.
"There's an old tradition in space films, if you think about it, where war and conflict are very sterile," Jendresen told SyFy Portal. "Death doesn't hurt, it's not really ugly. You can get killed by a phaser and just...disintegrate."
For the new film, whose story concept he called "pretty damn big," Jendresen said that he wanted to take an audience into an era before Kirk is born, where things aren't tied up comfortably at the end. "By the end of this story, everyone isn't fine," he explained. "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."
An Emmy-award winning writer and producer for HBO's Band of Brothers, Jendresen recently wrote Journey to thte Center of the Earth for 20th Century Fox but had no great desire to be involved with more science fiction. "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.'" He began to develop a story, "and it's a pretty good one." The eleventh Star Trek film remains in very early stages at Paramount, and no director has been suggested. The original interview is at SyFy Portal (http://www.syfyportal.com/article.php?id=1764) at http://www.syfyportal.com/.
From TrekToday at http://www.trektoday.com/news/100305_01.shtml