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November 12, 2002

Trekweb has posted a portion of Rick Berman's interview in Star Trek Communicator. Below is a snippet:

Producer Rick Berman talks in the latest issue of the Star Trek Communicator, a special Star Trek Nemesis edition available now and on the way to subscribers this week. The magazine sends along word that due to a new computer system there may be a slight delay delivery to subscribers. In the mean time, the Communicator provided TrekWeb with an exclusive preview of this issue's Rick Berman Update with Dan Madsen.

The interview took place as Nemesis was nearing the end of the scoring and finalization processes and the seventh episode of Enterprise was shooting. Berman says rumors of a new ending being devised for the film are outright false: "The picture has been locked for over a month," he told the mag. "We are in the final days of our last scoring session with Jerry Goldsmith. This film has got four more days of dubbing, and then we go into dub review and then print mastering. We’re all done and there are no changes and no simplifying. Whoever spread those rumors is just spreading rumors."

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Berman has so much confidence in Nemesis that discussion of whether there will be a "next Star Trek film" has completely been replaced by discussion of "when."

"My guess is that this film will do really well," he told Madsen without reservation. "The biggest enemy that this film has is the Christmastime opening. We’ve got James Bond and Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings and Solaris and Gangs of New York and a dozen big movies that are opening between Thanksgiving and the end of the year. That’s our biggest competition—just the fact that there are so many movies. My guess is that this film will do very well and, as a result of that, I will probably be hearing from the powers-that-be at Paramount sooner than I hope to in starting to put together an idea for the next film. That’s not to say ideas are not already percolating."

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http://talk.trekweb.com/articles/2002/11/11/1037025972.html

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