J.J. Abrams Officially Closes Sizable WarnerMedia Film, TV Partnership
J.J. Abrams and his wife and Bad Robot co-CEO Katie McGrath have inked a new five-year, all-encompassing overall deal with WarnerMedia.
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JJ Abrams closes Warner Media deal and leaves Paramount
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if it makes any difference, you can just go and see any other sci fi movie and just pretend it is part of the cloverfield series.
Would it matter? After the first one, the other two weren't even originally Cloverfield movies.
The only decent recent Star Trek movie was directed by someone other than him, so can't be that bad.
And I really hope the next one is directed by Tarantino.
Right? If it's videogames etc. then I'm 99.9% sure it's Disney.
In fairness, J.J. was never the problem with the first two Star Trek movies; it's that they were written by Orci and Kurtzman. Beyond lucked out when Simon Pegg was given the opportunity to write.
J.J. Abrams Officially Closes Sizable WarnerMedia Film, TV Partnership
J.J. Abrams and his wife and Bad Robot co-CEO Katie McGrath have inked a new five-year, all-encompassing overall deal with WarnerMedia.
I think I have a mild non sexual fetish for tall wives. Says more about a relationship than a lot of other visual cues and shows mutual and shared confidence.
Yeah curious about what it means for Star Trek. They really did screw up that series, after nailing the casting, and doing a lightweight but entertaining mainstream movie with the first one, they really didn't have a clue what to do with the sequels, and squandered a lot of goodwill with the atrocious second one, and the third one was not much better and still very forgettable.
Given the fact that the film and TV rights are back under one roof again, there is a lot of potential for doing interesting stuff between the two of them, but I'm not really sure how they'd go about doing so. I wouldn't want a Discovery theatrical movie just yet, and Picard is already returning as a TV show, and they have a bunch of other TV stuff in the pipeline.
My first choice would be to go the Blumhouse route and do a bunch of smaller budget Star Trek movies (hell I'd get Jordan Peele to do one if he was up for it), and have them lean harder into the sci fi, philosophical nature of the series, rather than worry about being a mainstream blockbuster, but my instincts say that won't happen. Ideally not leaning so hard on nostalgia as other recent trek stuff has (but I know that's asking a lot).
Given the fact that the film and TV rights are back under one roof again, there is a lot of potential for doing interesting stuff between the two of them, but I'm not really sure how they'd go about doing so. I wouldn't want a Discovery theatrical movie just yet, and Picard is already returning as a TV show, and they have a bunch of other TV stuff in the pipeline.
My first choice would be to go the Blumhouse route and do a bunch of smaller budget Star Trek movies (hell I'd get Jordan Peele to do one if he was up for it), and have them lean harder into the sci fi, philosophical nature of the series, rather than worry about being a mainstream blockbuster, but my instincts say that won't happen. Ideally not leaning so hard on nostalgia as other recent trek stuff has (but I know that's asking a lot).
Depends on if they decide to buy the other half of the industry and IP, which they will probably have to if they want to compete
I have no idea why Paramount keeps giving those clowns a paycheck. Can't they just give the screenplay writer position to some random bum from the streets? It would be an act of charity, and they couldn't possibly do a worse job than Orci and Kurtzman
Are we gonna get a JJ Abrams and Geoff John's DC collab?
2008 me would be over the moon, I think them doing a new Superman could totally work.
2008 me would be over the moon, I think them doing a new Superman could totally work.
I don't think they've made a single good screenplay together.
Their filmography consists of: The Island, The Legend of Zorro, Transformers 1 & Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek & Into Darkness, Cowboys and Aliens, and The Amazing Spider-man 2.
Their output is consistently bad.
One of the more common criticisms of Abrams is that he's not very good at picking scripts. He was a producer on those movies, he has a long relationship with Kurtzman and Orci (all the way back to Alias), it's not crazy to think he was involved with the decision to use their script.
Well then, get Akiva Goldsman and Ehren Kruger on the project!
Those four are toxic to me. If any of those four are attached to a movie, It's an instant "I'm OUT!!!" from me. I KNEW the Universal Dark Universe was going to be shit because they put Kurtzman as the HEAD of that thing. I don't doubt some might "like" their style. I mean, the Bayformers movies has their fans, and I'm sure someone out there loved Amazing Spider-Man 2, Rings and the Dark Tower movie. Hell, someone probably even liked the Tom Cruise Mummy movie.... but for me, I'm stayin' CLEAR away from anything those chuckleheads churn out.
There are pictures of them being Amit the same height. She's just in heels
Talk shit about all those other movies all you want but I actually think Cowboys & Aliens was a decent movie and will defend it.
Nope, it's about $10 a month or so.
Oh, the movies? Unless Tarantino is serious about doing Trek, you're not going to see another movie until someone buys Paramount.
You can go read the script. Then you won't want it any more. Spoiler: Lex is a Kryptonian.
I hope they consider Cavill for this if it comes to pass. I don't care about DCEU continuity, but I'd love to see him one more time with different writers.
And Zimmer should come back too.
Now this I'd like to see. Green Lantern is such an easy thing to do that it's crazy they've only tried once and somehow failed miserably at it. You could easily make a trilogy out of it.
1. Hal joins the Green Lanterns, Sinestro betrays them and a lot defect with him to found the Yellow Lanterns because the Guardians are cruel judges that mete out justice harshly and use the Green Lanterns as more of an army than the peace keepers they were meant to be; Sinestro decides using fear to maintain peace instead of force is the way forward;
2. The Red Lanterns appear, seeking revenge for what the Guardians did to their homeworlds, bringing a repurposed army of Manhunters to slaughter all life in their wake, culminating in the Yellow Lanterns joining the Green Lanterns to fight the Red Lanterns and their Manhunters to save the universe;
3. The Guardians command the Green Lanterns to take out the Yellow Lanterns and, in the ensuing battle, the source of the yellow light is destroyed and Parallax is freed from his prison; Parallax then possesses Hal Jordan and enslaves anyone wearing a Yellow Ring, leaving Sinestro to seek out the only thing in the universe that can defeat fear: hope.
I mean, Superman's been a descendant of Luthor before, so this isn't too weird.
It's a fine movie, it's not necessarily a great Star Trek movie. And Into Darkness is a complete dumpster fire.
This is an update correct? I swear I hearad that he was signing a massive deal with Warner Media.
THe streaming wars are real.
THe streaming wars are real.
People can say it's not an accurate OG Trek film, and I'd buy that. But it's a very good blockbuster film.
Philosophical, thoughtful Trek works on TV, it doesn't work in a film. Which is why even the "more faithful" Beyond is still a ridiculously over the top action film.