Matthew Vaughn Quit ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ Over Fake Script Written for Halle Berry: ‘I’m Out of Here’

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• canis_majoris@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Something similar happened to Whoopi Goldberg when she was hired for Star Trek Generations. They said she would be actively working with Nichelle Nichols, who ultimately had nothing to do with the project. In the opening scene when she is rescued from The Nexus by Chekov her reaction of shock is genuine because she was told up until that point that it would be Nichelle who was starring in that scene.

  Hollywood sucks.

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  • Snowcano@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    her reaction of shock is genuine because she was told up until that point that it would be Nichelle who was starring in that scene and was genuinely surprised to be across from Walter Koening instead.

    While she may have been told Nichols would be in the film when she signed on, she didn’t fucking “find out” when they were literally filming the actual scene, you absolute pancake. That is not even remotely how film production works.

    The surprise would, at the latest, have happened the day before when Goldberg might have noticed Nichols wasn’t on the call sheet, but in reality probably far before that during the normal course of production communications. Jfc

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    • chepox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pancake… lol

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  • ZeroCool@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh wow, I had never heard that about the production of the Generations movie before but that’s a really fucked up thing to do. Particularly because Whoopi Goldberg was at the height of her fame during ST:TNG’s TV run. She was only on that show because she loved Star Trek. Frankly, at that point in her career she was easily “above” being on a basic cable syndicated TV series.

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    • canis_majoris@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nichelle was the reason she was so into Star Trek. She was her idol more or less. It was really empowering to Whoopi to see a black woman on the bridge and it gave her tons of hope for the future.

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  • theinspectorst@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh that's very interesting. The script was actually written for it to be Kirk/Spock/McCoy rather than Kirk/Scotty/Chekov, but Nimoy and Kelley both said no because they were happy with where TUC left things for the TOS crew - which is why (for example) Chekov ends up running sickbay despite no evidence before of him having any medical training.

    I'd never heard they had a version claiming Uhura would be there too.

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  • Knitwear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gonna need a source on that “surprise” story

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, he later did XMen First Class?

  I like that one

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• Geek_King@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hollywood Exec’s suck.

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  • MargotRobbie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep.

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• Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now I’m wondering if they actually did that to her.

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  • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, they did cut all her prior lines that made the frogs and lightening joke work so I wouldn't be surprised.

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    • Remmock@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That line has caused me physical agony. Thank you for telling me there’s more.

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    • Fisk400@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do we know what those lines were?

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  • andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s to wonder? We have a credible source. Is there anyone credibly denying it?

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    • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We have a source that it was planned, but not a source that it happened.

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• UrLogicFails@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  After reading the article, I’m not surprised First Class was my favorite of the X-Men franchise; it really seems like Matthew Vaughn understands what was needed. Putting DoFP right after instead of letting the younger cast stand on their own for a while always felt like a mistake to me, and I missed the lighter tone from First Class as well.

  I also found it interesting he was thinking of Tom Hardy for a young Wolverine, since I’ve seen that thrown around as a fan-casting for a while.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He still made the best X-Men film though.

  I wasn’t super fond of the Kingsman sequels, but everything else he’s directed has been solid gold.

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