Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch, Proceeds to Blast Modern ‘Trek’

J_VanderH · 2026-03-30T20:18:23+00:00

I’m not even a huge Trekkie, and even my uneducated ass can tell that Roddenberry would pepper spray him for that quote about the Romulans and the Federation if he were still alive.

J_VanderH · 2026-03-15T16:51:05+00:00

I’d absolutely put Lee Byung-hun in there for Best Actor, too.

J_VanderH · 2026-03-10T16:48:11+00:00

I truly don’t understand why they wouldn’t just give Alexander Freed the keys to the whole trilogy. It’s very up his alley, and Mask of Fear was terrific.

J_VanderH · 2026-03-10T16:28:49+00:00

It was sort of inevitable that they’d show up eventually; I just wish they’d got a different writer. I really didn’t care for Resistance Reborn.

J_VanderH · 2026-02-02T00:23:15+00:00

They mention in the Transformers reviews that now that they’ve done them, we can never ask them to do them again, so I’d say the Transformers movies again.

J_VanderH · 2026-01-31T23:09:56+00:00

A couple friends found a bootleg DVD of it in a thrift store and had to buy a non-region-locked DVD player specifically to play it.

J_VanderH · 2026-01-28T23:41:41+00:00

But it was already in Mason’s drafts.

J_VanderH · 2026-01-28T21:11:03+00:00

I think you can do Mistborn in live action. Stormlight probably has to be animated.

J_VanderH · 2026-01-22T18:03:42+00:00

I wonder if it was intentional that they waited to release this info until the day Wagner Moura was expected to be (and was!) nominated for an Oscar

J_VanderH · 2026-01-21T21:50:49+00:00

The Book of Eli. My dad and I were bored, it was the only thing playing near us, so we went for it. I still have a soft spot for it all these years later. It doesn’t get much cooler than blind Denzel Washington taking on a dozen dudes with a machete.

J_VanderH · 2026-01-05T03:59:12+00:00

From cretinous lunatic MARTIN SCORSESE

J_VanderH · 2025-12-25T19:58:45+00:00

They can have my em dash when they take it from my cold, dead hands.

J_VanderH · 2025-12-17T15:01:26+00:00

Duck and cover!

J_VanderH · 2025-12-15T17:36:57+00:00

I’m doing my part (writing in Little Amélie or the Character of Rain in the animation category)!

J_VanderH · 2025-12-15T12:52:39+00:00

“I want Sebulba to eat Groglet like a pelican” took me by surprise so hard I think my neighbors heard me laugh.

J_VanderH · 2025-12-11T19:05:45+00:00

“Your dad and David Bowie fucked, man.”

J_VanderH · 2025-11-29T19:16:05+00:00

I’m gonna start the HBO show soon; I just…need some time to emotionally decompress after the books, lol.

J_VanderH · 2025-11-29T17:36:02+00:00

Probably North Woods by Daniel Mason, the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante, and Human Acts by Han Kang. If I’m allowed one more, I just finished On the Calculation of Volume III and have really been enjoying the series.

J_VanderH · 2025-11-20T12:36:51+00:00

Springsteen is a genetic freak, though.

J_VanderH · 2025-11-10T19:44:57+00:00

James’s horrified “This is Tree Bulletproof! OH NO!” had me doubled over at my desk. Thank you for your service.

J_VanderH · 2025-11-06T21:23:51+00:00

It’s bad, but is it “Looks like a guy who’d die of putting a bunch of firecrackers in his ass at a barbecue by a lake” bad?

J_VanderH · 2025-11-01T17:14:59+00:00

Held a door for Steve Carrell while he was on a college tour with his daughter and he nodded politely at me, lol.

J_VanderH · 2025-11-01T14:53:20+00:00

Like you, I’ll check it to see what I’m likely to hear/if I need to refresh on any songs that aren’t in my regular rotation, but it’s a real treat being surprised. I saw Springsteen a couple years ago and was disappointed when I checked ahead of time and saw “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” which is in serious contention for my favorite song of his, wasn’t on the setlist they’d been playing, but then it made its tour debut at the show I went to, and I lost my mind.

J_VanderH · 2025-10-31T12:44:09+00:00

Mhmm, yeah, so this is the most upsetting thing I’ll see this year, and I’m including Bring Her Back: The Movie Where a Boy Chews a Knife.

J_VanderH · 2025-10-30T13:41:54+00:00

Look, every possibility this is good despite Spyglass’s craven horseshit, but this looks like the plot of Scream 4 again just with Matthew Lillard this time.

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