Chris Pine Is Right: Star Trek Shouldn’t Try To Be Like Marvel
Chris Pine has stated during an interview that Star Trek shouldn’t try to be like Marvel in terms of budget and box-office expectations, and the actor’s point of view on the matter makes a lot of sense. Chris Pine has starred in the last three Star Trek films as Captain Kirk, and is expected to return to the role in the recently announced Star Trek 4. Pine won't be the only actor playing the iconic captain of the Enterprise in years to come, as the Star Trek: Discovery spin-off show Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will feature Paul Wesley as the Prime-timeline Kirk.
Taking many by surprise, Paramount announced that a fourth film in the series that started with 2009's Star Trek is in the works with the main cast returning. The announcement came six years after the last Star Trek film starring Chris Pine as Kirk, Zoe Saldana as Uhura, and Zachary Quinto as Spock, Star Trek Beyond. In the meantime, Star Trek returned to its TV roots with shows like Discovery and Star Trek: Picard.
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Chris Pine's comment on how his Star Trek movies were wrongly trying to match a benchmark set by Marvel films makes sense both financially and in terms of the story. The three films in the current Star Trek movie franchise had a total budget of over half a billion dollars, which created a box office expectation that certainly impacted how the movies were crafted. Star Trek shouldn’t aim to be a superhero movie-size blockbuster, not only because of the financial challenge that it creates, but also because spectacle and huge-scale battles have never been what Star Trek as a saga is about.
The original five-year mission of the Enterprise, and therefore Star Trek’s core goal, was to “explore
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