William Shatner Wants to Make a 50th Anniversary STAR TREK Musical

With the 50th anniversary of Star Trek coming up next year, Gene Roddenberry's classic space series is going to be getting plenty of tributes and special treatment, most notably in Paramount's Star Trek Beyond. (A new TV series is also in the works, but that won't debut on CBS [and then the network's streaming service] until 2017.) The show is on the minds of fans, studio executives, and even former stars of the series, as former Captain James T. Kirk William Shatner told The Guardian that he wanted to get his own anniversary show off the ground, possibly even as a musical:

“I’m attempting to sell a 50th anniversary show, but so far I’ve had very little luck. Maybe because Paramount’s going to do their own – but I don’t know how they can do their own without me. I’ve never been contacted.
“I’ve been actively trying to do a 50th anniversary show … We had a big company say: ‘What about a musical or a music variety show?’ That got some traction – but nothing’s come of it yet.”

A Star Trek musical has the potential to be decent, but I think Shatner himself would probably need to refrain from singing to ensure that's the case. The dude is in his mid-eighties at this point, and we all know what his most famous rendition of a song sounds like:

From The Science Fiction Film Awards, William Shatner's unforgettable performance of Elton John's "Rocket Man". Includes Karen Black's introduction of Bernie Taupin, and Taupin's introduction of Shatner. Rock-It, Man... :-) This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 20th 1978.

What do you think? Would you watch a Star Trek musical? Should Shatner sing in it if it actually comes to pass?

Via: /Film

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