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jumpingjsjumpingjs Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited March 2013 in Ten Forward
How come TMP cost $40 million to make while TWOK cost only $12 million to make and had wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more special effects?!
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited March 2013
    jumpingjs wrote: »
    How come TMP cost $40 million to make while TWOK cost only $12 million to make and had wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more special effects?!

    TMP had like 90% special effects, 9 hours of flying through V'Ger!
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  • kobayashlmarukobayashlmaru Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    To name a few:

    - CGI advanced between TMP and TWOK allowing computer modeling to be cheaper
    - Re-use of props means the first film footed a larger bill
    - TMP had more sets, with larger spaces, and more locations. In TWOK, a lot of re-use occurs such as Reliant and Enterprise bridge being nearly identical, and sets are generally smaller or enhanced with CGI.
    - Production delays means keeping people on staff longer, renting space longer, etc. Delays are always bad from a budger perspective.
    - TMP was also much longer iirc, requiring a heavier load of special effects, script writing, filming etc.
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  • collegepark2151collegepark2151 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Clouds ain't cheap. ;)
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    ...also...

    Much of the first round of Sp-Fx that were done for TMP ended up being unusable, for various reasons and had to be reworked/redone.

    At the time, Doug Trumbull, though a wonderful FX-artesian, used Star Trek Phase-II/TMP to try and build an Effects House of his own.

    Things didn't go so well...

    Essentially, it almost doubled the cost of TMP's effects.
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