Shatner may. Have been. His own worst enemy.
Not alien overlords or tribbles (or resistant directors), it seems William Shatner may have been to blame for his exclusion from the upcoming Star Trek movie.
J.J. Abrams spoke about the schism in a recent interview with SciFi Scanner:
Q: How do you react to William Shatner’s ire at not having a role in the movie?
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.
Nice way of saying Shatner was an ass. Abrams also discusses viral marketing, his abundance of scifi and his new show “Fringe” and fan reactions.
Star Trek is slated for a May 8 release in the U.S.
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