I was seriously doubting that I’d be wanting to see whatever was going to come out of Trek next, and if it is something with Cruise, I am so not there!
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Having Tom Cruise in the next Star Trek movie might be just what the francise needs to lift it to ‘so bad it’s good’ territory - so I hope they do it. That’s the only way I’d ever pay to see a star trek movie.
“What does God need with a DC-9?”
Maybe the Enterprise will fight the Psychlos, or Q will finally appear in a Star Trek movie - and it will be revealed that he’s a psychologist. Or maybe they’ll fight a race of clams.
According to my friends’ “sequel rules,” Snakes on a Spaceship is the fifth movie in the franchise. After the original, you’d have Snakes on a Plane 2: The Revenge*; Snakes on a Plane 3: Die, Snakes, Die; and Snakes on a Plane in the Hood before Snakes on a Spaceship.
Seriously, I’m a bit ambivalent about this. I still like Cruise as a movie star, even if he’s a crazy asshole in real life. With the right producer and director, I could see his presence helping Trek. Of course, the public would have to be willing to pay to see him, and right now the public still hasn’t forgiven him for being batshit crazy and obnoxious about it.
On the plus side, he could bring new levels of sincerity to space opera, since he’d actually believe all of it!
They’d just have to make the Enterprise look like a DC-10.
I think it’s that he no longer has a production deal with Paramount for the movies he produced. I would guess he would just be acting in a Star Trek movie, and it’s not like Paramount has banned him from all Paramount movies.