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Nicholas Meyer alludes to what he got wrong with Spock’s death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

By Chad Porto

Cosplay characters dressed as Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk from Star Trek along 5th Ave.across from the San Diego Convention Center during Comic Con International in San Diego, California on Thursday, July 20, 2017. Comic Con International is North America's largest Comic convention featuring pop culture and entertainment elements across virtually all genres, including horror, animation, anime, manga, toys, collectible card games, video games, webcomics, and fantasy novels as well as movie premieres and actor panels.(Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)
Cosplay characters dressed as Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk from Star Trek along 5th Ave.across from the San Diego Convention Center during Comic Con International in San Diego, California on Thursday, July 20, 2017. Comic Con International is North America's largest Comic convention featuring pop culture and entertainment elements across virtually all genres, including horror, animation, anime, manga, toys, collectible card games, video games, webcomics, and fantasy novels as well as movie premieres and actor panels.(Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images) /
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Nicholas Meyer talks about what he got wrong about Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Spock.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is seen by many fans to be one of, if not the best film in the history of Star Trek. It single-handily brought the film universe to life after a failed first outing with Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The Wrath of Khan did everything its predecessor did not. Doing a number of things, but most importantly, being entertaining.

That doesn’t mean there weren’t issues along the way. Nicholas Meyer took part in the Search for Tomorrow documentary, a documentary that talks about 80s action and science fiction films, chief amongst them being Wrath of Khan.

In a clip, obtained by TrekMovie.com, Meyer spoke about how he initially didn’t want to leave the cliffhanger in the film. Seeing the idea of killing Spock through to the end, and needing to be properly paid off was important to him.

The documentary shows that Meyer didn’t want to see the coffin left on Genesis to end the film, and alludes to the fact that Meyer himself may have been wrong about his initial plan.

What is In Search of Tomorrow?

The documentary, which you can pre-order, here for $69.99 (which includes your name in the credits) looks at Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, as well as Star Wars, Robocop, Blade Runner, Gremlins, TRON, Ghostbusters and more.

It’ll also feature names like Walter Koenig, John Dykstra, Kurtwood Smith, Dayton Ward, and Wil Wheaton from Star Trek. While also bringing in legends from the 80s as well, like Peter Weller, and Paul Verhoeven from Robocop, Ghostbuster’s Ivan Reitman, Star Wars’ Billy Dee Williams, Sean Young from Blade Runners,  Bruce Boxleitner of Tron fame and tons more.

The trailer to the project is above.

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