Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 11:18:45 GMT
Leonard Nimoy was attached to direct at one point - and even had a meeting with Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks about the programme (which just sounds bizarre to me - Star Trek and Dr Who being as incompatible as DC and Marvel in my mind)
The project did have a long gestation, but evidently was all costed out by January 1994 on a budget of $27.9 million, which would have seen filming take place for six weeks in a London studio, two weeks of UK location work, three weeks in Eastern Europe and two weeks in Morocco. A second unit was due to shoot in Egypt and San Francisco.
The terms of the contract meant that Daltenrays had to begin principal photography by 6 April 1994, but due to a pointed letter sent to Daltenrays by BBC Enterprises on 4 March, their backers (Lumiere) pulled out of the arrangement and so (they claimed), they were unable to being filming as the BBC had effectively sabotaged the deal. Enterprises senior lawyer countered that they felt that Daltenrays were unlikely to meet the deadline anyway given that, as far as they were aware, as of the beginning of March, the script had not been approved and the director had not been chosen or lead actor engaged.
Peter Litten, George Dugdale and John Humphreys had together put in around £500,000 into the project and so proceeded to take legal action against the BBC. They couldn't continue however, as they simply didn't have the capital to fight a long drawn out case.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 16:37:14 GMT
I remember hearing about this in the late 1980's. Then the news just stopped, and that was it (remember, this was pre-Internet). I can think of a certain someone who'd have a coronary at the very idea of Doctor Who and Star Trek crossing over Anyway, I wouldn't have minded had Mr. Nimoy directed the movie, he would have been behind the camera. It's not like he would have been playing Spock in said movie. The BBC probably killed the project because, by then, they were into negotiations with Steven Spielberg's company, Amblin Productions. This would eventually lead to the 1996 TV movie with Paul McGann. So the Bonehead Broadcasting Corporation won this one. Figures
|
|