Star Trek the actor Chris Pine Pine shared some brutally honest opinions on the issues facing a potential fourth installment in the rebooted franchise. Fans have been waiting over a decade to see Pine return to the role of Captain Kirk and continue the journey he began in 2009 in the J.J. Abrams reboot, but it has proven to be nearly impossible. star trek 4 Away from the ground.
Bane recently appeared at ACE Superhero Comic Con, and spoke (via Popverse) about the belief that Star Trek The franchise is now over. While there are still talks about a new film, there has been no sign that the multi-year stalemate has been broken, and Payne believes there are two main reasons for this: catering to the wrong audience, and the need for the films to make huge sums at the box office.
Star Trek Beyond It was the third film starring Pine as Kirk, and after its release in 2016, reviews were not entirely positive and the box office was not great. Although Star Trek As one of Paramount's biggest intellectual properties, the idea of continuing this branch of the franchise took a hit immediately after the poorly received film. According to Payne, the problem lies in who the studios are trying to please… and more importantly, who they're not trying to please.
“It’s always been about attracting an audience and building an audience. I think we’ve found that we’ve attracted an audience through the Star Trek universe that might not have come to us, but in general the audience is the one who loves that universe. I think we have to make movies that appeal to people who want to see the movie. I’m tired of trying to please people who don’t want to see what we’re doing.”
Payne finally believes there is one thing that can break the curse. star trek 4 He completed the film and added:
“I think we’re going to make a much smaller movie that’s more story-driven, more character-driven, there’s going to be less explosions, and we’re probably going to do it that way. We’re also going to shoot it on film, not digital. And then you have the fan base. The fan base has always been very nice to me. Obviously there are the trolls that lurk on the internet and hate everything, but I think overall people have really loved it.” [Star Trek]”.”
Chris Pine Believes Movie Budgets Are Killing The Industry
In recent years, and especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become more difficult for movie studios to achieve a billion-dollar blockbuster. Whether it’s due to a change in the type of movie that interests audiences, a growing belief that movies are coming to streaming platforms much faster than they used to, or just the mythical “fatigue” of many big franchises, something has changed about how often audiences go to the theater.
For Payne, this poses a problem when it comes to the amount of money that goes into making some of the biggest films, and the pressure that comes with them to make ridiculously high revenues to be considered successful. He said:
“We’ve reached a point where it takes $500 million to make a movie. That’s spending half a billion dollars to make these movies that you love. And for a movie to be considered successful and for everyone to get their money, you have to make an enormous amount of money. And the metrics that govern that don’t seem to me to make a lot of sense.”
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Of course, not every movie needs to be a billion-dollar hit, nor does it need to have a $200 million budget—most of which is usually due to the incredibly high pay bills of the film’s main stars—and there have been many more indie success stories in the past several years than there have been big IPs, such as Amazon’s disastrous results last year. Wonders, Flash And Indiana Jones and the Disc of Destiny. If Payne's vision was for something less flashy and less expensive, Star Trek If a sequel happens, it could be a long-term testament to a controversial point about the true value of multi-million dollar movies.
