New Star Trek posters! See Simon Pegg’s Scotty
August 11, 2008
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First Cut of Star Trek Complete - Paramount Preview Goes Well
August 5, 2008
Four months after wrapping principal photography JJ Abrams and his editors Mary Jo Markey and Maryann Brandon have finished their first cut for Star Trek. Late last week Abrams screened this cut for studio boss Brad Grey and other big shots at Paramount and according to sources it went very well.
The Paramount buzz on Star Trek went into high gear last week. One source tells TrekMovie that first cut showing was “a hit.” Another old studio hand who isn’t even working on the projects called the cut “very impressive.” And yet another source said that the reaction in the screening room was “far beyond expectations” and as we know expectations have been high at the studio since the powers that be decided to move it from a Christmas 2008 release to their first summer tent pole of 2009.
- from TrekMovie
Star Trek Online Announced
July 29, 2008
From IGN:
Star Trek is one of the two most enduring and popular sci-fi franchises in history, however when it comes to massively multiplayer games it has been noticeably absent. Star Wars, the other pillar of sci-fi, has its own MMO. The Matrix, another potent sci-fi franchise, has its own MMO as well. Yet despite having millions of fans worldwide, there remains no Star Trek MMO, and the most recent effort by Perpetual Entertainment to make one never materialized beyond a handful of screenshots that trickled out over the years. The Perpetual game died along with the studio’s fortunes earlier this year, and the developer has since shut down. But now Cryptic Studios, the developer of City of Heroes, City of Villains, and the upcoming Champions Online, has picked up the torch for Trekkers. The company announced on Monday that it had secured the global rights to Star Trek Online from CBS Consumer Products, the holder of the license. Moreover, it said it would show the first gameplay video and reveal the first details regarding the game next month, at the Star Trek Convention in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 10.
JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Poster! First look at Spock.
July 18, 2008
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Harry Knowles has seen some of JJ Abrams Star Trek
June 28, 2008
From AICN:
After that shot, JJ wrestled with what else he had that he could show. Talking with his partners in the room – he didn’t know quite what to show. Yoko and I just looked at each other – we were kinda like deer in the headlights – just waiting to absorb whatever was shown. At this point I was a bit anxious because while I liked the first two clips – they didn’t really show anything recognizable to the timeline of Trek that I knew.
That’s when JJ had his “EUREKA” moment – he didn’t actually say “EUREKA” – but he knew what he wanted to show. He went over to the big Editing computer thingamabob and was trying to get something up, he pulled up a scene that looked like it was shot in an enormous hanger – There looked to be well over a hundred Starfleet graduates standing in the center of the room – with a couple of shuttlecrafts (old school) that looked like they were ready for boarding… the voice over was basically assigning cadets to the ship they would be serving on. The shot was huge, but oddly sparse… that’s when the editor said they had a newer version of the scene and then worked with JJ to pull it up.
Oh Wow.
The newer version was much much grander. It feels as though some Intergalactic Pearl Harbor has happened and all the cadets are anxious to get underway. You’d see cadets running to meet their shuttles – and as shuttles filled up, they took off to take their crews to their respective starships. They hold on the long shot – we hear Leonard McCoy being assigned to the Enterprise – You catch Uhura being assigned to a place… not the Enterprise. You see Chris Pine as Kirk demanding to know why his name wasn’t called out – apparently Kirk is in trouble. You remember that Kobayashi Maru thing he got a commendation for creative thinking for? Well, he isn’t smiling about it here. It seems his entire future career in Starfleet is in jeopardy – and he might miss out on whatever is going on. In a way it plays like the reality of legend. The truth behind the mythology of Kirk’s youth. How is Chris Pine? He’s young. The scene I saw wasn’t a strong KIRK scene, but a proto-KIRK scene. To see a character called Kirk that isn’t comfortably calling all the shots is a bit strange, but welcomed at the same time. I can’t wait to see how JJ takes the character and thrusts him into “greatness” – which has to happen in this film.
Paramount Already Thinking About Sequel To Abrams Star Trek
June 6, 2008
With the JJ Abrams Star Trek movie still eleven months away, is it too early to be talking about a sequel? Apparently to Paramount Pictures the answer is ‘no.’ Star Trek co-writer and executive producer Roberto Orci has revealed exclusively to TrekMovie.com that the studio is already perusing the new Trek team to nail them down for a follow-up.
In yesterday’s article about JJ Abrams views on Spoilers, Orci dropped by the talkback section and interacted with the fans. Although Bob expressed his backing of the Abrams ‘no spoilers’ policy, when pressed for some spoilers (including showing him the Queen of Diamonds from The Manchurian Candidate), Orci let the following out of the bag:
“Alright, since I saw the queen I can give you a spoiler about the Studio’s state of mind (not about the movie itself). The spoiler is that they already want to lock us down to write the sequel. Take that as you will.”
- From Here
J.J. Abrams talks Star Trek
May 2, 2008
“It was an opportunity to take what I think has been a maligned world — to sound crass, a franchise — and treat it in a way that made it something that I wanted to see,” said Abrams, who recently finished shooting on “Star Trek,” due in theaters May 8, 2009. “To take the characters, the thoughtfulness, the personalities, the sense of adventure, the idea of humanity working together, the sense of social commentary and innovation, all that stuff. To take it and apply it in a way that felt genuinely thrilling.” - Via AP
When Nimoy met Quinto
April 16, 2008
TV Guide: Is this a crazy movie to promote, because of all the secrecy?
Nimoy: There’s always been an issue of trying to protect the secrecy of the next Star Trek movie, whichever one it was. There are people who make it their business to try to get their hands on the script and be able to say, “I got it and I can tell you what’s happening.” In this particular case it’s been a very special effort on the part of those people to break through the security barrier, and as a result the security has been stronger than it ever has been before.
Quinto: I think the speed with which people get their information now makes it more of a problem. The first day I shot the movie, before it was over J.J. came to me with his phone and showed me a picture that he had downloaded from the internet of us standing in the room that we were still shooting in. It was already on the Internet! That’s actually what instigated the heightened security. The next day I showed up and we had floor-length vinyl jackets with hoods [to cover costumes] and golf carts that were completely enclosed in black tarp. That persisted through the entire shoot, even when we were on the lot at Paramount. People were worried about camera phones and digital cameras and it’s understandable because there were a couple of times that a background actor or someone who was working on the crew would snap a couple of photos and they would inadvertently end up on the Internet, and that’s just a headache for the legal departments. People think they want to know, but they don’t want to know. It’s going to ruin the experience for them.
Via TVGuide
Leonard Nimoy talks J.J. Abram’s Star Trek
April 14, 2008
Nimoy was there and said that Star Trek 11 is a gigantic movie. It’s the biggest film he’s ever worked on and that it will be worth waiting for. He also said that Paramount is losing money on this investment now because they really have a lot of faith in the film as a summer blockbuster. He also went on to say that he didn’t like the death of Kirk in Star Trek: Generations. He resented it. He then went on to say that it would have been damaging to the story to put Shatner in the film.
I find it VERY interesting to see Nimoy’s comments regarding how including Shatner in the film would have been detrimental to the story. That makes it sound to me like all the talk by the producers and writers of trying to find a way to write “old Kirk” into the storyline may indeed have been B.S. all along, and put out there just to appease the fans.
On the other hand, it seems like the very thing that may have kept Shatner out of the movie was indeed his death in Generations. That makes his death in the movie doubly terrible: First, it was an ignoble death for the character, alone on a desert planet and now, second, it ended up keeping Shatner from appearing in what may be the seminal re-birth of the Trek franchise.
Via Screenrant
John Cho Calls ‘Star Trek’ Shoot ‘A Dream’
April 11, 2008
More than forty years ago, George Takei became U.S.S. Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu, one of the bravest adventurers in Gene Roddenberry’s multi-cultural vision of our future. Now, one half of the “Harold & Kumar” team has taken the torch, and he’s high on the script that will soon bring us a “Star Trek” reboot.
“The shoot went great; it was just a dream,” marveled John Cho, the new Sulu in J.J. Abrams’ highly-anticipated “Trek” film that will go where many have gone before in May 2009. “It is really, explicitly living out a childhood fantasy. So, it was just about as good as it gets for me.”
Via MTV
Geek alert 2: Boring extras from JJ Abram’s Star Trek which Paramount made AICN take down…
March 27, 2008
click pic to embiggen guys in tinfoil hats…
Via AICN
Simon Pegg Says He’s Signed On For Three ‘Star Trek’ Films
March 22, 2008
Pegg said he’s signed on for three potential Trek films but don’t get too jealous. He didn’t get many souvenirs. “I would have loved to have taken a phaser or a tricorder or even my Starfleet academy ring but sadly they hold onto that,” he sighed.
Via MTVBlog
Maybe Tom Cruise will be a Red Shirt?
February 23, 2008
“Star Trek director JJ Abrams was visited on the set today by the star of his film Mission Impossible III, Tom Cruise.”
JJ Abram’s Star Trek XI Set Pics. An exclusive picture of a…?
February 15, 2008
From JFX Online
No ‘Trek’ for you!
February 14, 2008
Paramount is pushing back the release of J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” from Dec. 25 to May 8, 2009, saying the pic’s gross potential is greater as a summer tentpole.
Via Variety
Star Trek Teaser Trailer from JJ Abrams
February 10, 2008