Previously in our “trek” through the sales pitch for the original Star Trek series we saw the concept and met the crew, nothing the changes between what was initially planned and what finally made it to television. In this installment we look at what goes into making a science fiction drama in the 1960s.
When I looked at the sales pitch for the original ThunderCats, they were focuses on the story because it was a cartoon. Everything was going to be drawn. For a live-action series you have to let the money people know how much money is going into pre-production and the actual production, the spending money before hopefully making money. I image the pitch for the animated series don’t have to worry about set pieces and what they cost. The writer’s guides didn’t have to worry about that, either. The writers had to have some idea what the recurring locations looked like, but they weren’t building the sets. We did get a layout of the Enterprise-D bridge in the writer’s guide for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
So we’re about to see in the next few pages just what was planned and considered necessary to build the sets, props, and costumes for this show. I’m not expecting price tags, just a sample of what they’re hoping to get out of it. The end results were limited by their budget and the available effects of the day (the transporter was used because it was cheaper than using the shuttlecraft everytime, which was late the first time they needed it, thus creating the transporter in the first place–don’t expect to see it in the pitch or guide), but we can look at what they wanted versus what they got.
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I totally called All-Star Superman‘s replacement and I was kidding when I did. The radio drama episode it adapts had more historic significance than the adaptation, which I do want to read someday, ever will due to when it came out and the work that went into convincing the company to release it.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 17, 2024 in Comic Spotlight, DC Spotlight, Marvel Spotlight and tagged classic comics, Comics By Perch, commentary, Joe Corallo.
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