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November 20, 2002

IGN Filmforce recently held an interview with William Shatner, and the subject about The Final Frontier as a Director's Edition was brought up (story). Below is a snippet:

IGNFF: I had a couple of other questions to ask you as well... first up – what is the current status of the Star Trek V: Director's Edition DVD?

SHATNER: It's done and they're packaging it now.

IGNFF: Was there any reediting or special effects work?

SHATNER: No, they wouldn't give it to me.

IGNFF: So they wouldn't let you go back and do a special edition...

SHATNER: Nope... Nope. I was really upset by that. I told them that more people would buy the DVD – that they'd garner more money – by investing some money with me.

[...]

IGNFF: If Paramount had given you the money to do a special edition DVD, is the footage available – was the footage shot – to be able to redo the ending?

SHATNER: I would have invented the footage. I had the footage of running and jumping down hills – I needed something to run and jump after me. That wasn't there because of a number of circumstances all relating to the fact that there was no money to make an ending.

IGNFF: It's unfortunate that Paramount can be so stupidly stubborn. The film is a wonderful character piece...

SHATNER: Yes, it has a lot of that... That's true. I thank you for that.

To read more, click on the link below:

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/377/377798p1.html

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