Screen hog!
Star Trek movie director J.J. Abrams wrote William Shatner’s Dr. Kirk into the upcoming new Trek film, but the actor’s vanity effed it all up.
J.J. talked about the exclusion of Shatner in the new movie and revealed his side of the story in a recent interview:
It was very tricky. We actually had written a scene with him in it that was a flashback kind of thing, but the truth is, it didn’t quite feel right. The bigger thing was that he was very vocal that he didn’t want to do a cameo. We tried desperately to put him in the movie, but he was making it very clear that he wanted the movie to focus on him significantly, which, frankly, he deserves. The truth is, the story that we were telling required a certain adherence to the Trek canon and consistency of storytelling. It’s funny — a lot of the people who were proclaiming that he must be in this movie were the same people saying it must adhere to canon. Well, his character died on screen. Maybe a smarter group of filmmakers could have figured out how to resolve that.
Shatner should know better!
It’s Star Trek, not a soap opera!
Trekkies would never go for a return-from-the-dead story line! Would they????
[Image via WENN.]
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