{"id":12156,"date":"2011-06-02T12:57:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=12156"},"modified":"2011-06-02T12:57:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:57:46","slug":"mcdowell-kirk-death-meant-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/06\/mcdowell-kirk-death-meant-death-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"McDowell: Kirk Death Meant Death Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Malcolm McDowell<\/strong> didn&#8217;t like the way Captain Kirk was killed off and neither did some fans, some of whom expressed their displeasure towards McDowell himself.<\/p>\n<p>Even though plenty of people didn&#8217;t like the death of Kirk as it was originally filmed, including both <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> and <strong>Patrick Stewart<\/strong>, the studio didn&#8217;t act on those complaints until a test screening revealed deep dissatisfaction from the audience.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/McDowellSoran0601111.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12157\" title=\"McDowellSoran060111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/McDowellSoran0601111.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care whose fault it was,&#8221; said McDowell. &#8220;Whoever came up with his death at the end, I thought it was really cheesy. I just think the man, whether you like him or not, should have been given a blazing death. And I, course, would have been happy to have supplied that. Look, I just think it was a missed opportunity for this great, iconic figure that everybody loved or everybody loathed. He was one of those great figures that caused dissention and debate and arguments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McDowell knew that some fans would not be happy with the death of Kirk. &#8220;&#8230;as far as I&#8217;m concerned fifty percent of the people are going to love me for it and fifty percent of the people are going to hate me,&#8221; he told Shatner, who was gathering material for a book.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, some fans took their dislike a bit too far and McDowell received death threats. &#8220;It was the infancy of the Internet,&#8221; he said, &#8220;so it was easy to make a hollow threat. No one could check it, really. But, yes, that&#8217;s what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McDowell&#8217;s most recent project, Franklin &amp; Bash, in which he plays Stanton Infeld, head of a law firm, premiered on TNT last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm McDowell didn&#8217;t like the way Captain Kirk was killed off and neither did some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2972],"tags":[3665,3536],"class_list":["post-12156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-movies","tag-mcdowell","tag-star-trek-generations"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-movies\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Movies<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Movies","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12158,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions\/12158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}