Re: Picard rumour/speculation
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 7:23 pm
Give how Orville is a quality show... I hope to god this is true.Graham Kennedy wrote:Rumour has it that Seth Macfarlane is very, very keen to get hold of the rights.
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Give how Orville is a quality show... I hope to god this is true.Graham Kennedy wrote:Rumour has it that Seth Macfarlane is very, very keen to get hold of the rights.
He pitched a Trek show to them back a few years ago, but they went with Discovery instead. I guess we can always wonder what he would have done, if he'd had Trek. Orville, but as a Trek show? Or a serious Trek show?AlexMcpherson79 wrote:Give how Orville is a quality show... I hope to god this is true.Graham Kennedy wrote:Rumour has it that Seth Macfarlane is very, very keen to get hold of the rights.
A producer of the caliber of Seth MacFarlane pitches to whoever owns Star Trek, his own Star Trek show he wants to produce, a pop culture figure with connections in the industry, very politically opinionated, and a Star Trek super-fan(!) and they say no to him. They hire Bryan Fuller, fire him midway because they suddenly didn't like what they hired him to do, so then they hire Alex Kurtzman, who worked for JJ Abrams, wrote the new Trek movies, and failed to start the "Dark Universe" franchise with his directorial debut "The Mummy."Graham Kennedy wrote:He pitched a Trek show to them back a few years ago, but they went with Discovery instead. I guess we can always wonder what he would have done, if he'd had Trek. Orville, but as a Trek show? Or a serious Trek show?AlexMcpherson79 wrote:Give how Orville is a quality show... I hope to god this is true.Graham Kennedy wrote:Rumour has it that Seth Macfarlane is very, very keen to get hold of the rights.
Before Orville came out I was openly wishing that it was not going to be "family guy in space", just jokes and nonsense that aimed to be funny and nothing more. I wanted "Star Trek with jokes, and easy on the jokes". And that's exactly what Seth delivered. And it's even more clear as it goes along that he only ever put jokes in because he had to - he wants to make Star Trek, and this is as close as he's been able to come.Nutso wrote:Seth MacFarlane goes on to create his own future space exploration show, in the vein of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" tackling issues like LGBT rights, religious zeal, war, the things Star Trek used to be about instead of action/adventure spectacle. And The Orville is a serious show. It's classified as comedy to avoid copyright lawsuits from whoever is Star Trek's parent company. It's nothing like a sitcom.
Sad thing it's closer to Trek than modern day Trek.Graham Kennedy wrote:Before Orville came out I was openly wishing that it was not going to be "family guy in space", just jokes and nonsense that aimed to be funny and nothing more. I wanted "Star Trek with jokes, and easy on the jokes". And that's exactly what Seth delivered. And it's even more clear as it goes along that he only ever put jokes in because he had to - he wants to make Star Trek, and this is as close as he's been able to come.Nutso wrote:Seth MacFarlane goes on to create his own future space exploration show, in the vein of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" tackling issues like LGBT rights, religious zeal, war, the things Star Trek used to be about instead of action/adventure spectacle. And The Orville is a serious show. It's classified as comedy to avoid copyright lawsuits from whoever is Star Trek's parent company. It's nothing like a sitcom.