The newly reconstructed Director's Version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is soon coming on DVD, and its director, Robert Wise, has been talking about it.

While talking to the Los Angeles New Times Wise spoke of his dissatisfaction as well as his newfound acceptance with the film, saying, "At the time I made it, I was pretty unhappy. There were some unfortunate things going on. We had problems with the script -- we were rewriting the script all the way through -- and I got along well with the actors, but it was not one of my happiest experiences, so I always had a bit of a downer on it. There were so many things taken out I don't think should have been taken out, so when I had a chance to go back belatedly and put some of those scenes back in, that made me much happier about the film. With all my other films, everything went fine -- I got my cut on them and got along with the studios. This is the only one I had this experience with."

Wise participated in the creation of the upcoming newly wrought version of the film, which uses newly created CG material as well as carefully recutting the film to bring in previous cut footage as well as snipping out redundant material. After finally seeing the new version, Wise said, "When I did West Side Story, we screened it for the cast and crew before we took it to the Midwest for a couple of sneak previews. I'll never forget, Sam Goldwyn and his wife were there, and Mrs. Goldwyn said to me after the showing, "The minute I sat down in the theater, I wasn't in that theater. I was in that film, all the way through it.' That's the greatest compliment you can pay any film. It grabs the audience from the very beginning and never lets them go. They forget they're looking at a film. That's what you try for. And I've finally done that with Star Trek."
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Thats a bit hard for me to swallow but it would be nice to see that huh?

If they cut out the "redundant" stuff...where does that leave Goldsmith's music??? Like when Scotty and Kirk take that LONG LONG trip around the Enterprise the first time?

Would it be a bad move to rerelease the film in the theatre like with the Exorcist or the upcoming rerelease of Superman:The Movie???

Is it still rated "G"???

Hmmm?

Curiouser and curiouser

What a great article!!!

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Originally posted by meegle:
If they cut out the "redundant" stuff...where does that leave Goldsmith's music??? Like when Scotty and Kirk take that LONG LONG trip around the Enterprise the first time?

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I can't believe they would even think of cutting THAT sequence - that would be heresy!

Why did I post this stuff to the "Just Movies" forum yesterday, if it doesn't get read and someone else posts it here?

Sheesh!

Kevin

I like the exposure that this has and besides, this DVD release REALLY (imho) touches on Goldsmith's score more than we may realize....yet.

Jeron

I've only got Kahn, and that's because it's my favorite, and it's autographed by Kahn himself, Ricardo!

But I'm wondering something. When ST:TMP is done, will my original movie poster still be worth anything? It's signed by Robert Wise, after all.

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Originally posted by Jeron:
It is also rumored that after this DVD is released, all the other Trek DVDs will be recieving a similar "SE" treatment.

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• The box will contain an empty space for Trek X
  
• All movies will be remastered and 16:9 (which means anamorphic, I suppose)
  
• ST-1 will DEFINITELY have Seamless Branching
  
• ST-2 SHOULD have Seamless Branching
  
• ST-4 SHOULD have Seamless Branching
  
• ST 2 & 3 should have remastered sound
  
• Paramount consider making DTS tracks for ST-7, 8, 9

I hope this is true. And I hope we don't have to wait too long for it...

As you know I was among the lucky Home Theater Forum members in LA last year. On our day at Paramount studios we asked about re-issues of the others, and it's basically a "not in the near future" situation. They dont believe in re-issuing discs so soon after they already put them out on the shelves. There won't be a box or DTS tracks, and last I heard TMP would be the new cut only.

Dan (UK)

"Seamless Branching" is the ability to "go in different directions" from one point of a movie on a DVD. E.g. Stigmata uses SB to let you choose between original and alternate ending. When watching the movie, you don't notice the change, therefore "seamless".

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Abyss and ID4 2 disc editions

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I understand now. It has to be a bad movie to get seamless branching.

joy of joys.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (DVD): Rumours are flying that this much anticipated release has been put on hold. According to Trekweb it seems that the original camera negatives were damagd during the telecine process to lay down the film on digital tape. So what does this mean? Basically there'll be no new live action footage from the film in the new DVD, only segments garnered from the extended cut which aired on ABC in the mid-80s. One glaring omission - the famous 'Memory Wall' sequence for which the negative is still nice and intact, yet there's still no plans to include it. The new CG footage will be included and in fact the more graphically violent transporter room accident is the reason the DVD has been upgraded from G to PG. Theatrical re-release plans have also been canned. Thanks to 'Gustavo'
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Originally posted by meegle:
Marian, in 20 years people will say, "Star Trek? What's that?"

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Originally posted by Pete Apruzzese:
officially debunked by both the producer of the DVD and by a Paramount Home Entertainment executive

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That's a relief!

If you want to remain surprised about the upcoming DVD release of ST:TMP...DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK!!!!

Lots of pictures that show what they've added to it.

If u decide NOT to look, suffice it to say IT LOOKS GREAT!!!!!

The Abyss is ruined by it's preachy ending.

Bleh Bleh Bleh

Its preachy end is what makes THE ABYSS so great.

But you can always watch the non-expanded version of it...

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I kinda wish I hadn't seen the pics. Im not sure anything was really ruined but...I should of treaded softly.

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Been lurking here for a while, nice board!

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Indeed. You should see my post count. We got to meet Martin last Novemmber while at Paramount in LA, there is much enthusiasm for the release and the movie restoration is now complete. They're busy working on the supplements now.