> From ComingSoon.net ...
>
> Shatner Responds to Abrams' Star Trek Comments
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> In what all is starting to sound like miscommunication,
> William Shatner has responded to Star Trek director
> J.J. Abrams' comments from last week about why the
> actor is not reprising the role of Captain James T.
> Kirk in the May 8, 2009 release.
>
> It seems to us that someone in the film's production
> told Abrams that Shatner didn't want to do a cameo and
> wanted the movie to focus on him. As you can see from
> the video below, Shatner says he was never contacted
> by someone about taking part in the movie, but agrees
> that he wouldn't be up for just a cameo and suggests
> they resurrect him in the follow-up.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/v/CzOs4WEutQ8&hl=en&fs=1 ...

> Anybody wrote:

>> From ComingSoon.net ...
>>
>> Shatner Responds to Abrams' Star Trek Comments
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>> In what all...

> Shatner is a tricky situation. As a director, his next step up is to
> producer. But as we all know, the franchise itself has been too
> tightly reined-in for such a maverick production to occur.
> Conceivably, a return to the TOS-timeline might at this point occur as
> an independent production entirely under the control of the original
> cast, with Shatner hiring a big name science fiction writer to
> "rescue" Kirk.
>
> Such a classic scenario could then be adapted for the screen by one of
> today's top screenwriters, and maybe even directed by Leonard Nimoy
> himself. I don't really see what prevents this from happening, except
> maybe a lack of desire on their part.