And actually the recent Star Trek reboot is the sort of example they should be following. Commercially and critically successful, and helped resurrect a somewhat moribund franchise. Plus it was really good.
Yes, the new Trek movie certainly did “resurrect” the franchise, but the final product was completely antithetical to what the original was at its core. For me personally, that price was far too high. What we got was a visually appealing, sexed up, low brow, militaristic action movie, which, while decently entertaining, is utterly repugnant to the intellectual/moral focus that made the original Trek what it was. We are obviously both devoted fans of Trek, and our differences are purely opinion based, so I’ll leave it there (for this thread at least!).
Anyway, I hope that what you say about only the treatments being written by Lucas is true, cause that way they can just ignore it and do what they want anyway lol! I must admit that this whole thing has thrown my whole view of Lucas’ role in the franchise all off. We griped and groaned so long about the terrible things he was doing to “our” franchise, but at the end of the day we could at least take some small solace in the fact that he wasn’t just out to make tons of money (although that was totally up there on his list of priorities), but that he also cared deeply about his creation, if not about his fans. With Disney now at the reins, I’m not confident that we can still say that. Like I said before, I’m not ready to write the whole thing off just yet, but I have this terrible feeling that 12 years of “It can’t possibly get any worse” are about to come bite me in the butt!
