William Shatner Admits "I Failed Horribly" Directing Star Trek V

This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT William Shatner shoulders the blame for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier's failure as the director who also came up with the central story of the USS Enterprise crew meeting 'God'.

Speaking to THR about his new autobiographical documentary, William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill, the 92-year-old Shatner reflected on his inexperience as a feature film director and the mistakes he made with Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, admitting, "I failed... In my mind, I failed horribly." Read his quotes below:

I wish that I’d had the backing and the courage to do the things I felt I needed to do. My concept was, “ Star Trek goes in search of God,” and management said, “Well, who’s God? We’ll alienate the nonbeliever, so, no, we can’t do God.” And then somebody said, “What about an alien who thinks they’re God?” Then it was a series of my inabilities to deal with the management and the budget. I failed. In my mind, I failed horribly.

It is on me. I wanted granite to explode out of the mountain. The special effects guy said, “I can build you a suit that’s on fire and smoke comes out.” I said, “Great, how much will that cost?” They said, “$250,000 a suit.” Can you make 10 suits? He said, “Yeah.” That’s $2.5 million. You’ve got a $30 million budget. You sure you want to spend ? Those are the practical decisions. Well, wait a minute, what about one suit? And I’ll photograph it everywhere .

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