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> From ComingSoon.net ...
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> Why is William Shatner Not in Star Trek?
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> AMC's SciFi Scanner talked to Star Trek director J.J. Abrams,
> who explained why you won't see William Shatner reprising the
> role of Captain James T. Kirk:
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> Q: How do you react to William Shatner's ire at not
> having a role in the movie?
>
> A: 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.
>
> Paramount Pictures will release Star Trek on May 8, 2009.
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> I guess that simply proves that Abrams is not a smart filmmaker. ;-)