My thoughts...

Pixar's Star Trek

(Mon 04/30/2007 11:04am)

I'm a Star Trek fan, and I've made my feelings well known on this site about my ideas for a new Trek film. I thought about this the other night when some friends were talking about Pixar's movies...

I think the problem with Star Trek is that everyone wants to see Kirk, Spock and McCoy. The Undiscovered Country, the last movie for the "big three" made $175 million worldwide 16 years ago. Inflate those numbers to today's ticket prices and you've got a huge hit on your hands. The Next Generation movies went downhill quickly, because although they were Star Trek movies with a cast we all came to accept, they didn't have Kirk, Spock and McCoy together.

DeForest Kelley is no longer with us, and William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy are just too old to play the roles anymore and make them believable for more than just cameos, but their voices are just fine. Kelley's voice could be sampled or digitized and recreated. So, get Diane Duane (my favorite Trek novelist) to write a great Star Trek adventure and have it scripted into a movie for Pixar. Pixar could recreate the Star Trek universe in an animated format.

Just imagine what they could do! Star Trek fans, Pixar Fans and movie fans in general would just flock to the theaters to see a Pixar Star Trek film. Digitize, sample, or get good voice actors for the characters no longer with us and have the entire original cast involved. It would be an all CG movie, so there could be amazing planets, out of this world (no pun intended) aliens and fantastic space battles. And, you can't tell me that Pixar's animation gurus wouldn't love to get their hands on a project like this!

I think you'd be guaranteed Pixar's biggest hit yet!