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Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 3:21:54 AM

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NEW YORK (AP) — The "Star Wars" universe, already substantially rendered by computer generated imagery, is giving in all the way to animation.

"Star Wars: The Clone Wars," an animated film, will open in theaters Aug. 15 and be followed by a TV series of the same name, to air on the Cartoon Network and TNT this fall.

"I felt there were a lot more `Star Wars' stories left to tell," said "Star Wars" creator George Lucas in a statement. "I was eager to start telling some of them through animation and, at the same time, push the animation forward."

Produced by Lucasfilm Animation, both the film and TV show will be distributed through Time Warner Inc., which owns TNT, the Cartoon Network and the film's distributor, Warner Bros.

Lucas, who serves as executive producer, is also planning a live-action television series spinoff of the franchise, which he began working on last fall. The animated series has long been in the works, though the theatrical release was only announced late Tuesday.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hc21_i1w797dfQrfS2jDgC8k2m1AD8UQ3CTO0

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LOS ANGELES - "Star Trek" fans will have to wait a bit longer to see where the crew of the starship Enterprise is boldly going next.

The release of J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek," with a new cast taking on the roles of Capt. James Kirk, Spock and other original characters, has been moved from Christmas Day to May 8, 2009, distributor Paramount said Thursday.

Studio spokesman Michael Vollman said the switch was a business move, not because of any problems with the film caused by the Writers Guild of America strike that just ended

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/news/bal-lifestyle-startrek0214,0,6075686.story

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RE: Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 3:51:16 AM

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The longer we have to wait for that Star Trek abomination the better. JJ Abrams is accomplishing what Berman and Braga could only dream to do: re-do Star Trek into oblivion.

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RE: Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 5:48:44 AM

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i don't know i can't really say much to this. i'm glad to see that there is a newer Star Trek coming. I had hoped they would have done a film with the DS-9 crew or Voyager crew instead of coming up with a revamp of the origional characters.

Star Wars,i think the main issue there was that Lucas had waited way too long to add in parts 1-3. don't get me wrong but in that case i still think 4-6 were much better.

at this point i'd rather wait and see a younger Star Trek origional crew than another installment of Star Wars seeing as Cartoon Network had the Clone Wars animated series a few years ago and it wasn't that great.

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RE: Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 10:43:31 AM

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Just when are film makers going to leave classics alone. Constant remakes of older films will render the classics not so classic.

I have copies of all the original Star Wars, meaning the ones I saw when I was a kid at the Cinema, despite their aged special effects they are still fantastic to watch.

And I think looking back, Star Wars No.3 as I saw it, the film 'Return of the Jedi', Leia in chains helped me to get to where I am now.

But movie making is about making money, that and displaying the latest special effect, sometimes I just think the story suffers with all the concentration on effects.

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RE: Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 12:13:55 PM

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Paramount has milked the Star Trek cow to death. There is no actual continuity to the stories, and the Trek universe revolves around the concept of Utopia--everyone is perfect, technology solves all problems, and every alien you meet is a bipedal humanoid with funny-looking forheads or strange ears.

I gave up on Star Trek in 1992 and have never looked back. Now and then I'd risk a glance, but was always disappointed. With the late Rick Berman and Michael Piller (known in Science Fiction circles as "Burn & Pillage") in charge, the starship Enterprise journeyed into realms of Political Correctness where no one wanted to go! Of course, as long as the Treadmill Trekkies kept gobbling up the formulaic offal that Burn and Pillage kept shoveling, UPN certainly wasn't going to care. It was amusing, though, to see that network steadily sinking as each new Trek clone was Xeroxed and foisted off onto the hapless viewers.

What's really tragic is that Star Trek's vileness is a product of tight control. The Old Series (OS) used real writers: Ted Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, etc. Next Gen and all of its clones were scripted by a tightly bound writing circle wholly under contract by UPN, and their efforts were tightly edited. I've seen a few of the original scripts, and there was good material there--but most of it was rejected in the spirit of Hollywood as "too controversial", or, "might offend the sponsor", etc. Hence, their stories blur together and sound the same.

By 1994, however, serious sci-fi people didn't care. Babylon 5 had proven that hard science fiction still existed, and that quality SF drama could still be done. Ronald D. Moore's revamp of Battlestar Galactica has reinforced that ideal. Star Trek, meanwhile, continued to sink into a well-deserved oblivion, and it has remained there ever since.

As a final note, it's worth observing that B5's creator, J. Michael Straczynski, approached Paramount with a plan to "re-boot" the Star Trek universe and get the series off to a fresh start. His proposal can be seen at http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/files/ST2004Reboot.pdf Although he was officially rebuffed, I can't help but notice that the new series' basic concept is suspiciously similar. The legacy of Burn and Pillage lives on!

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RE: Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 1:23:03 PM

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I really liked the scene in Star Wars IV (the first one) where Vader leaves Leia to the torture droid. The look in her eyes as the door closed.....

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RE: Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 1:30:10 PM

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RE: Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 3:37:01 PM

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There is no actual continuity to the stories, and the Trek universe revolves around the concept of Utopia

The final nail in the coffin was when they retconned Zefram Cochran from Alpha Centauri to Montana.

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RE: Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 4:37:07 PM

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I thought the hugest break was when the genisis weopon (which re organised all of the molercules) brought Spock back to life. that was just stupid and made no sense.

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RE: Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 6:26:30 PM

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I was told Kirk would not be in this one?

Some Remakes are ok. Ahh I smell a new thread coming.

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RE: Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 6:31:44 PM

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Shatner won't be in this one(if he is it won't be as Kirk
but Kirk is in this in the acadamy days

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RE: Star Wars, Star Trek news - 2/15/2008 6:33:31 PM

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