Posted on 03/11/2023 10:24:52 AM PST by nickcarraway
The 'Star Trek' legend says his new documentary ‘You Can Call Me Bill’ is “a way of reaching out after I die”
Star Trek legend William Shatner has said he doesn’t “have long to live”.
The 91-year-old recently finished his new documentary You Can Call Me Bill, which is described as ”an intimate portrait of William Shatner’s personal journey over nine decades on this Earth”.
While wider release plans have yet to be finalised, the film will air at this year’s SXSW festival.
Speaking about his decision to make the doc, Shatner said: “I’ve turned down a lot of offers to do documentaries before. But I don’t have long to live.“
He went on to tell Variety that “whether I keel over as I’m speaking to you or 10 years from now, my time is limited, so that’s very much a factor. I’ve got grandchildren. This documentary is a way of reaching out after I die.
“The sad thing is that the older a person gets the wiser they become and then they die with all that knowledge.”
Speaking about his decision to attend a fundraiser in 2015 instead of going to Leonard Nimoy’s funeral, Shatner reiterated what he said at the time: “People ask about a legacy. There’s no legacy. Statues are torn down. Graveyards are ransacked. Headstones are knocked over,” before adding “but what does live on are good deeds.”
“If you do a good deed, it reverberates to the end of time. It’s the butterfly effect thing. That’s why I have done this film,” he continued. In 2021, Shatner became the oldest person ever to go into space.
Shatner flew on a Blue Origin rocket, which was developed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who was also on the flight. The trip lasted about 10 minutes.
“You look down, there’s the blue down there and the black up there – and it’s just, there is Mother Earth. This is life and that’s death, and in an instant, you know that’s death,” Shatner said after he landed.
Exactly. :)
We saw him this week on a 1963 episode of Route 66. Cutie.
Tambourine Man is the best.
Nimoy gets the prize for the worst music video ever made for the song “The ballad of Bilbo Baggins.”
He sings part of it in this video, too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MVoDnGVkWCA
Space, it seems, is not the final frontier.
Gotta admit, though - I still like watching him.
That picture and caption would suggest that Kirk was a democrat, or a politician, at the very least.
Well, his birthday is two days before mine this month.
He, and Michael Ironside are my favorite Canadians.
Funny how I saw this thread.
I was just today watching Kingdom of the Spiders.
Starring.
William.
SHATNER.
The RiffTrax version, of course.
Also...
Just today, I was harassing my Mom about how she managed to squeeze me out right in between Kirk and Spock’s birthdays.
Of course, I thanked her for it.
You’re not wrong.
I’ve known too many good, healthy people who have died soon after retirement.
Retirement is what gets ya.
KEEP GOING!
I saw that episode. Did you happen to see him with Josh Gates of Expedition Unknown, diving with sharks? Blew my mind.
I missed that one, but I’ll find it. Thanks.
I missed that one, but I’ll find it. Thanks.
He’s frickin’ 91, of course he probably won’t be around in ten years.
But it doesn’t mean it’s imminent.
I’ll remember his being seen on the original Twilight Zone
episode....he was seeing a small creature on the wing of
a plane in flight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXHKDb0CNjA
That was certainly different!
I absolutely loved it! Thanks for the link.
Shattner = Shatner
Got it right finally.
Shatner has been on television (or in the movies) in eight decades (longer than I’ve been alive). That’s truly remarkable, and at 91 he looks close to half that age. I’ll miss the hell out of him when he’s gone.
If you retire, you need something else productive to do.
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