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Originally posted by OPPYH:
Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman are the writers for the film. I just found this out. They have such hits as the Transformers(which to me seemed like a jumbled mess with good action) and Alias(which I never liked).

How can these relative unknowns helm one of Sci-Fi's biggest franchises? I'm worried, and I feel if your a Trekkie you should also have concern

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Originally posted by GWEK:
Relative unknowns? Kurtzman and Orci both have careers as writers and producers that go back a decade! If nothing else, both were writers/producers for ALIAS, which had a very successful 5-year run.

That's more experience than Joss Whedon had when he started the Buffy the Vampire Slayer show (and certainly more than he had when he wrote the movie) and more than George Lucas had when he started one of the most influencial sci fi franchises in history.

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Originally posted by Storymark:
it's going to have to make somewhere in the vicinity of $300 million to just break even.

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Originally posted by micjwelch:
This is the eleventh Star Trek movie. Add that to the five live action series and the animated series, and that's a lot of sci-fi. You can't kill Star Trek.

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Originally posted by OPPYH:
Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman are the writers for the film. I just found this out. They have such hits as the Transformers(which to me seemed like a jumbled mess with good action) and Alias(which I never liked).

How can these relative unknowns helm one of Sci-Fi's biggest franchises? I'm worried, and I feel if your a Trekkie you should also have concern

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Originally posted by GWEK:
Relative unknowns? Kurtzman and Orci both have careers as writers and producers that go back a decade! If nothing else, both were writers/producers for ALIAS, which had a very successful 5-year run.

That's more experience than Joss Whedon had when he started the Buffy the Vampire Slayer show (and certainly more than he had when he wrote the movie) and more than George Lucas had when he started one of the most influencial sci fi franchises in history.

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Yup, and can you recommend me one thing they have written(I hate Alias) that will change my mind........?

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Originally posted by GWEK:
You're already biased and have most likely made up your mind based on preconceptions, so why bother?

But would anyone have thought that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a good idea coming from a guy who wrote a few episodes of "Roseanne" and the TV adaptation of "Parenthood"? Or such "hits" as "Titan AE," "Alien: Resurrection" and "Atlantis"? (Personally, I enjoy all of those movies, but they're not exactly in a class about the MI3, Transformers, and The Island).

If you hate "Alias", there's a decent change you're gonna dislike anything that Abrams and his gang do, but holding that against future projects is the same as the folks who didn't like BtVS saying that they wouldn't bother with "Firefly" because they hated Whedon's first show.

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