No. He has no idea. He's made up a story about the contractual relationships between the studios and the producers that satisfies him, but he doesn't actually have any information on the matter and can't support his claims when challenged.
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No. He has no idea. He's made up a story about the contractual relationships between the studios and the producers that satisfies him, but he doesn't actually have any information on the matter and can't support his claims when challenged.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear about a remake of Happy Days in the works, or even Cheers. It would take cojones to remake I Love Lucy, but everytime I think "okay that's the most outrageous remake idea possible," they come up with one that sounds even crazier (Blues Brothers TV series???) so I better not rule anything out.
Whenever I think I Love Lucy remake (admittedly next to never, but humor me) I imagine it being another utterly unfunny ABC sitcom that inexplicably survives for nine seasons.
Good think it's a CBS property, I... think.
Good think it's a CBS property, I... think.
Licensing is a tricky thing, and unless you've seen the contract there's no way to know who has to get paid for what. For instance, In the 1980s Nintendo licensed Popeye from King Features/Hearst to make a video game, but the way that deal was written the rights to the game and its design became Hearst's, not Nintendo's, even though Nintendo designed the game. Trust me, I speak from personal experience with that license.
CBS is pitching Trek XI at that link and acting like they own it, so if they had to pay for the rights, they've already figured that end of it out. I'm sure they've counted all the beans.
Check out the sell sheet, I didn't notice that before. Notice how they focus on Abrams' movie in boasting about the box office success, call it a "New Franchise," and then mention that it's the #4 Movie Franchise of all time. So which franchise are they talking about, the new one, or the one that includes all those other movies? Whatever the customer wants to buy, baby!
And that's why it's silly for us to start worrying about what reality anything is in. CBS will sell whatever product the customer wants to buy. They're not worrying about anything below the subtlety level of a bullet point.
Check out the sell sheet, I didn't notice that before. Notice how they focus on Abrams' movie in boasting about the box office success, call it a "New Franchise," and then mention that it's the #4 Movie Franchise of all time. So which franchise are they talking about, the new one, or the one that includes all those other movies? Whatever the customer wants to buy, baby!
And that's why it's silly for us to start worrying about what reality anything is in. CBS will sell whatever product the customer wants to buy. They're not worrying about anything below the subtlety level of a bullet point.
I really think that a new Star Trek TV Series will happen in two ways:
- CBS will wait for the success of Star Trek 2, too see the success of the movie before deciding upon a TV Series. In this scenario there is a strong possibility that the TV series will be set in parallel with the movie universe, giving the opportunity to set up the stories between the movies, getting the movie audience into the TV show as well (but not set aboard the Enterprise, we might get the introduction to the new TV series crew in the movie probably, if this is the way). This opens up the window for the new TV series somewhere in 2013 fall/2014 winter/2014 summer
- The second option is that CBS is confident in Star Trek 2's success going ahead with a TV series independent of the movies release date, and independent of the jjverse, but I really think they will give the production of the series to Bad Robot, they might consider a time setting sometime early 25th century in the prime universe, riding the possibility to bring back old TV series fans with cameos from TNG, VOY and DS9 also making a new crew, and riding the movies set up of destruction of romulus ... In this case we might see a series in 2012 fall/2013 winter/summer
I really hope we will get a new Trek series soon, I need that. Or should I start my prayers for a new space opera/return of B5?
- CBS will wait for the success of Star Trek 2, too see the success of the movie before deciding upon a TV Series. In this scenario there is a strong possibility that the TV series will be set in parallel with the movie universe, giving the opportunity to set up the stories between the movies, getting the movie audience into the TV show as well (but not set aboard the Enterprise, we might get the introduction to the new TV series crew in the movie probably, if this is the way). This opens up the window for the new TV series somewhere in 2013 fall/2014 winter/2014 summer
- The second option is that CBS is confident in Star Trek 2's success going ahead with a TV series independent of the movies release date, and independent of the jjverse, but I really think they will give the production of the series to Bad Robot, they might consider a time setting sometime early 25th century in the prime universe, riding the possibility to bring back old TV series fans with cameos from TNG, VOY and DS9 also making a new crew, and riding the movies set up of destruction of romulus ... In this case we might see a series in 2012 fall/2013 winter/summer
I really hope we will get a new Trek series soon, I need that. Or should I start my prayers for a new space opera/return of B5?
On CafePress, the fan pages are forbidden to use anything connected with JJTrek. Only the various series and the movies up to Nemesis.
CafePress hasn't renegotiated their deal with CBS Consumer Products, then. Maybe they need to give CBS a few more quatloos to expand their rights to Abrams' stuff. If I were CBS, I'd charge more for that. Just read the sell sheet I linked to, there's a reason they brag about how well the movie did - they can use that to make more money on the licensing. If they increased rates after after Abrams' movie was a big success, and CafePress didn't want to pay more, that explains the situation with them.
But the point is, CBS is selling the rights to Trek XI along with the rights to all other aspects of Star Trek. That must be how their deal with Paramount is structured. So why couldn't they go ahead and do a TV show based on intellectual property they already own? Would CBS, a TV company, forget to get the rights to TV along with the rights to books and t-shirts?
Anyway, if I were going to get a Star Trek shirt and advertise my nerddom to the world, this is the one I want.
Just google "Dark Spock T-Shirt" and you can see that many sites have expanded their rights with CBS Consumer Products to include Abrams' movie images.
But the point is, CBS is selling the rights to Trek XI along with the rights to all other aspects of Star Trek. That must be how their deal with Paramount is structured. So why couldn't they go ahead and do a TV show based on intellectual property they already own? Would CBS, a TV company, forget to get the rights to TV along with the rights to books and t-shirts?
Anyway, if I were going to get a Star Trek shirt and advertise my nerddom to the world, this is the one I want.
Just google "Dark Spock T-Shirt" and you can see that many sites have expanded their rights with CBS Consumer Products to include Abrams' movie images.
Awesome shirt.
Sylar with a Moe Howard haircut.
You expected them to change the haircut? The canonistas would have had heart failure.
Do you blame them? You can't take a Vulcan and turn them into a Klingon for example or into a Jaffa (SG-1). A Vulcan is a Vulcan.You expected them to change the haircut? The canonistas would have had heart failure.
TOS, when they did show other Vulcans, didn't have them all with the same exact hairstyle, especially the women!
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