Star Trek Movie Countdown: One Year To Go May 8, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Star Trek (2009 film) , trackback
One May 8 2009, exactly one year from today, the new Star Trek feature film will open. Of course last Christmas was also a ‘one year mark,’ until they moved the movie to May in order to capitalize on the summer movie season. Although there has been a lot said (and some shown) about this film, there are still a lot of events coming up over the next year to look forward to.
Some of the bigger events we can expect over the next year:
- First cast photos
- First full photo(s) of the Enterprise
- 2nd ‘teaser’ trailer
- More teaser posters
- First full posters
- Announcement of a ‘tagline’ for the film (’Under construction’ is not it)
- New viral marketing site(s)
- full theatrical trailer
- First comic book & book tie-ins
- First toys/merchandise
In addition to those events there will of course be more and more interviews, production photos, posters, clips, TV spots, and other usual stuff related to a big movie. Much of this will, of course, be weighted towards the Spring of 2009. However some of the above will be happening in 2008, but much of the timing is still up in the air. The feeling around Paramount now is that it is difficult to get a lot of notice while we are in the peak of Summer 08 movie season (and while they are also very busy promoting Iron Man, Indy 4, Love Guru, etc). The next big opportunity for new things is Comic Con in late July. So for now, expect the continued ’slow burn’ as producer Damon Lindelof said in his TrekMovie.com interview.
But TrekMovie.com will continue to try and bring new as much as we can as soon as we can. During May (and beyond), look forward to:
- Interviews
- More cast revelations (just small parts but filling out the cast)
- ‘Get to know the crew’, profiles on those working on Star Trek 2009
- And for those who cannot resist….Spoilers
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this better be good!
Only one year left of mindless whining and absurd speculation by “fans”
But how long for us Brits, a year or a year and a few days
There are a LOT of people around the world waiting to hear the “message” that Roberto and Alex have come up with: that touch of G. Roddenberry that speaks to all of us, daring us to do exactly what Gene would said once in an interview: “….[No, aliens didn’t build the pyramids. Humans did! Because they were clever, and they worked hard!].”
My personel concern isn’t what that “Star Trek message” may be, but simply “Can the Peoples of the Earth wait another YEAR to hear that message of Trekian hope, considering the real mess of a place we seem to have made of our planet–and what we’re doing to each other as a species?” IMHO, the Peoples of the Earth could do well to consider the underlying message that Star Trek speaks to us as a collective species, and the sooner, the better. Roberto? Any hope to have a smidgin of that “Star Trek message” in the trailer that would spur us to lay aside those seeds of self-destruction for yet another day and AT LEAST TRY to strive toward a real “United Earth?” I hope so. That is the primary message STAR TREK holds for me.
The waiting until May 09 does not bother me, the growing list of big movies (competition) also coming out in May 09 bothers me.
I don’t think the world will plunge into chaos because Star Trek is a year away, and I certainly am positivee that this movie is not going to direct humanity in a different direction.
Rhett Coates, that is a very profound , intelligent question. We have to keep the hope alive some how.
Gas should only be about $6.50 a gallon by then!
ONE YEAR!?!?!?
I’m mad, happy, and excited all at the same time ………………………………………………………………………is it here yet?
I just hope the economy doesn’t collapse before then, it would mess up us seeing the movie. Hold on, dollar! Just till after next year, you can do it!
POSSIBLE TAGLINE:
“The human adventure begins.”
I’m hoping that there will be something shown at Comic-Con in a similar fashion to what Bryan Singer did with Superman Returns the year before it opened.
What will have happen in one year:
* New president.
* Higher gas prices.
* No more Trek Remastered.
aka it’s going to be a boring year…………………
#12
That would be super cool!
@8: In Germany we have a gas price of about €1,48 per liter, that would be $8,54 per gallon. So I don’t know about what you are complaining.
@3: Germany has a confirmed release date for May, 7th. So I guess it’s a worldwide start - at least in mayor markets.
What will also happen in one year in addition to the new “Star Trek” motion picture:
* The 70th anniversary of Batman (This year is Superman’s 70th anniversary).
* The upcoming release of “Superman: Man of Steel” (”The Dark Knight” will be released THIS summer.
@Rhett Coates
I am so sick and tired of the Star Trek as world changing bull that fans bounce around. Sure, it’s made some good points over the years, but it changin’ the world.
Why does Star Trek have to be anything more than fun? To make obsessed fans feel better about their obsession? To make them think that watching “Spock’s Brain” for the hundredth time, they’re somehow not just being couch potatoes?
I personally can’t wait for my Star Trek Happy Meal (if they have one).
(I mean, to buy one for my kids. Not for me. Yeah, that’s the ticket.)
:-)
[Hits the Movie Snooze Button, Rolls Over, Clutching the Covers]
Wake me when it’s a month away …
Markus
The cost of gas has nothing to do with anything until you compare it to the cost of living. I don’t know what the average wage-earner is in Germany, but in Amerika, the classes are being split so there are fewer and fewer of what we call “middle class” wage earners and those are the majority of gas users. Soon there will just be poor people and rich people which is how the wealthy like it as historically, as the middle class does better, they supplant the upper class. With no middle class, there is no threat.
Another reason gas is so high isn’t just the cost of a barrel of oil, rather, the inflation we are experiencing here with the over-saturation of the Federal Note in circulation. The more our Federal Reserve produces notes of credit (our money), the higher inflation goes. No one would care if gas was $10 a gallon if the dollar was the strongest on earth and everyone made a million dollars a year. There would be balance, but that’s not our situation.
We are on the cusp of hyperinflation, and as a German, you should know exactly what that is and what it means. Actually your grandmother probably does if she was around in the 20’s, ask her (look up Germany hyperinflation in the 1920’s).
I will probably take that Friday in May ‘09 off from work. I’ll see the new movie @ Midnight Thursday into Friday, I’ll see it again Friday afternoon, and maybe again Saturday with my brother. (Midnight and Friday afternoon I’ll probably look like that “creepy guy” who came to the theatre by himself!) We all have to be careful not to get hit by a bus or something for the next year . . .
My wife and I are having a child which is due August, 8th. Our baby will be nine months old when Star Trek is released to theatres. We have every intention of sitting right next to you!! So, you all have that to look forward to, as well.
20, why do I feel like I’m taking an online course on economics all of a sudden!? :-) Good comments, though.
As long as we’re waxing philosophical, let me just say that it doesn’t look like we’re going to be going to the stars any time soon. Absent friendly extraterrestrial contact and guidance, or a breaktrhough in technology that would make the invention of the internal combustion engine look like moldy cheese, it appears that some of us will have to hope for the truth of reincarnation to expeience a world united in going to the stars. Project Constellation won’t send its first human being back to the Moon until 2020, at the earliest. Even its first occupied flight won’t occur until 2014 — six years from now.
One year from now is not so long compared to the time it will take in reality for humans to, once again, ride in a spacecraft whose basic design is intended to allow humanity to break out of low Earth orbit.
One hopes that by 2020, we can claim both Ares I and the Saturn V-class Ares V as the newest of our vehicles to reach for the stars. That, my friends, is 12 years away. Compared to that, one year is but a pittance.
You’d think they’d trot out some more cast at Comicon, except it is still so far from the opening date of the film.
#17
I couldn’t agree more. I love Trek, but I don’t expect it to change the world. Hell it came out in 1966, so the world should have gotten a whole lot better since then - if you buy into the theory that pop culture can make such changes occur. Don’t kid yourselves trekkies. Trek is pop culture, nothing more.
I just realized that First Contact Day in tthe Trekverse isn’t until 2063. Even in Star Trek, the invention of warp drive is more than half a century away. Assuming a life expectancy of between 75 and 80 years, that’s within the natural lifespan of many, perhaps even most, people who read these boards, but not all.
But on to happier things. Star Trek XI is opening in just one year!
happy one year to go, everybdy
That’s easy for you to say, Mr. Orci! :-D
#25… I disagree… we have fliptop cell phones! :)
#23… there is another “hope” that exists… of a united world where there is no more sickness or death, and the stars are as close as a thought. But that is stranger than science fiction to most here. I, however, hold to it. I don’t need reincarnation or to place my hope in humanity.
Just saying.
#15
“In Germany we have a gas price of about €1,48 per liter, that would be $8,54 per gallon. So I don’t know about what you are complaining.”
IMO, the #1 reason we Americans are complaining is because the price has skyrocketed very steepy, very quickly. My understanding is that gas prices in Europe have been high for quite some time. When something vital (ie, gas for your commute) costs $2 and doubles in price in one year, it is a shock to our budgets and more difficult to adjust to.
The OTHER reason I think we Americans are P.O.’d is because we are angry with our government for orchestrating a war in an oil-rich country - and we have seen no benefit whatsoever. At the very least, the ridiculous cost of the war should be compensated by oil companies and the oil in Iraq. Anyone? It’s upsetting.
27.
I can’t wait, it’s going to be great !
30, a united world — united in peace, liberty, justice, harmony, and freedom from want — is something that most people would desire for both themselves and their children.
You are quite right. As Martin Luther King said, even if we don’t make it to the promised land, we can do our best to make sure that we are all on the road towards it. The more direct the route, the better.
27
THANK YOU, MR. ORCI!
#30 - Sounds like a place I’ve heard of… heaven!
#30–There are more things that were inspired by TOS than just the flip-top cell phone! There was a great traveling display that was at our local museum of natural history that showed how the bridge layout inspired the Navy to redesign control panels; how a version of the hypospray is now in use; data squares became floppy disks; the video discs from Ally My Yesterdays became CDs; etc., etc.
Now, if they could “inwent” a working transporter, we’d ALL use a lot less fuel and save the environment.
SPB#11- Good tagline idea!
Anthony- Thank you for the breakdown of events. Exciting to hear that some news will break at ComicCon, especially since that bodes well for more news at ST con in Vegas. I will be there in my Captain’s chair hyperventilating into a paper bag as said news is disclosed…
Well, we trust in trekmovie.com to mine Star Trek gold for us loyal fans while we wait for the movie. Data mining is a hard business, but there are bits of gold in those datastreams…
In the meantime, robomechs will continue to mine gold the old fashioned way…
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&refer=africa&sid=a9BOGQpwxDec
Usually the studios roll out a big ad for their summer blockbusters during the Super Bowl (Feb. 1, 2009)…wonder if Paramount will buy some time for Trek?
chris and bob –
They used to crank eps out in a few weeks. Couldn’t you just whip together something to keep us happy? How bout a Star Trek Mother’s Day Special? or “It’s the Great Romulan, Jimmy Kirk” or The Donnie and Marie and TOS Characters Bluegrass n Rock Jamborie?
Something… we’re so lonely.
You know, we didn’t see much about The Hulk over the last year either and the buzz is pretty buzzless. If the film is filmed, we should be able to see something! ……Let the rumors begin………
Poor CmdrR. I will call THX and tell him to send Mongo over to keep you company.
Wow. I can’t wait to go to the premiere in my flying robot car (a lot can happen in a year).
One last time with this lame joke, Now there are really 525,600 minutes to go just makes the time seem that much faster doesn’t it?
no matter… in a year’s time I will be a Jane Austen fan and forget all aboot this Star Trek…
oooo… then I’ll be waiting with bated breathe until 2011 for the re-boot of “Pride & Prejudice” wit’ Chris Pine ta’ be Mr. Darcy and Zachary Quinto twill be Lizzie Bennet… arrr
to number three: UK fans will have to wait an extra day before we get to see Star Trek :D not so bad considering having to wait a few extra weeks for Nemesis.
The US is so dependent on personal cars that it is virtually enslaved by the spiralling oil price. I lived in Poland in 2003, and a full tank then cost $90. I filled up my Passat in NY two days ago for $57. Gas in the US is still dirt cheap.
WOO HOO!!
Wait - - I thought it opened on May 9! (My birthday). Is it now opening on a Thursday? Isn’t May 9 a Friday in 2009? Hmmm better look it up…
(I’m visiting through my friend’s laptop. They’re really difficult to type on!!)
kg
p.s Thanks for the birthday limericks and icecream links!!
@20&31:
Yeah, I do in fact have some bank notes from these days. Ridiculous numbers. And I didn’t know, that gas prices we’re climbing that fast in the US, sorry.
Weak dollar: That’s also a problem for many of our companies. Germany exports more goods than any other country in the world. Every cent the dollar exchange rate drops, BMW for example looses 80 million euros.
Bleh!!!!!
BritDude#45- LOL! I am already a huge Jane Austin fan, so that will not ease my impatience between now and May ‘09. However, your suggestion to cast Quinto and Pine as Darcy and Elizabeth is a novel one: One thing I would change - cast Quinto as Darcy and Pine as Lizzie. Quinto has already had experience playing the aloof, tall, dark and handsome type in the film, and maybe Pine could pull off Lizzie if he lives in a house with several crazy women for a few weeks.
that was funny BN Dude.
Seriously, there has to be 1 photo of someone or something that we can see. They have got a lot of mileage off of that teaser trailer and the sneak peaks we saw during JJ et al’s Q&A. You HAVE to appease the hardcore fans so they(we) will spread the work like we have up to now.
Mr. Orci, you are one of these fans. I’m guessing you understand the advantage of strategic, ono-informative photo leaks. It is to your benefit. thanks and cheers all…I won’t throw anymore negative waves on the subject.
The word was non-informative
…when you type with passion errors occur
Here’s hoping everyone here is alive and healthy one year from today. I better see each and every one of you on this board in one year, either praising or bitching about the movie!
So, Bob, how are the labor pains? Contractions getting any closer? LMAO :-)
#49
When I read your posts, I’m pretty sure you’re must be a fan of the Ferengi :)
Well, one year to wait… aw man! That’s a loooong time!
Possible tagline:
WITNESS THE FUTURE’S PAST…
hopefully for us brits and the rest of the world it will be like indian jones new film same day worldwide release!
#58
Well, Transformers was out in Italy some days “before” the US release! What a strange phenomenon.
Amen #17. ST has a great place in entertainment history and has inspired people-no doubt about it . But I think we need a little perspective.
Well I for one am extremely impatient for next summer. Star Trek being the primary reason of course but Transformers 2 is a very big part of it too.
HAPPY FEDERATION DAY!!!!
only 153 years to go…
Its all going to trickle out sooooooo slowly isn’t it? oh well patience is a virtue!
#25: That sort of pessimistic attitude is exactly why things DON’T happen. Think about that for a moment.
Paramount’s schedule is looking pretty weak the rest of this year, I don’t see anything big that they could use to push the first full-length Star Trek trailer, the way summer’s Indy 4 could have promoted winter’s Star Trek. Maybe with James Bond, Harry Potter or Day The Earth Stood Still in Nov/Dec, but none of those are Paramount so the Trek trailer can’t be attached to the movie (the way Indy 4 is attached to Iron Man). The only big Paramount film in the timeframe for a Trek trailer debut is the Leonardo DiCaprio/Kate Winslet reunion “Revolutionary Road” in December.
Time flies as it is so I plan to enjoy the next year of tidbits to the fullest!
….the adventure continues….
#65 - Actually the Trek trailer could appear on any of those films listed. It would just not be a trailer that was attached by Paramount. The theaters can add individual trailers to any film they like to cross-promote the films listed.
This is going to be a fun and interesting year. :)
I couldnt wait anymnore, i boarded my time machine and saw it this morning.it was amazing. you guys are going to be pleased! :)
7. Janice BS - “Rhett Coates, that is a very profound , intelligent question [in post #4]. We have to keep the hope alive some how.”
Thank you, Janice. “Hope springs eternal,” as the saying goes. And with the world as it is now, while it may be good to prepare for the worst, hoping for the best (and visualizing its potential through shows such as ST) can spur us onto better way of life. We hope.
#17: “…..Why does Star Trek have to be anything more than fun?…..”
It doesn’t. In fact, it IS fun! And it’s inspiring (to many: such as multitudes of doctors, scientists, care-givers, business executives, artists, etc. etc.). Oftentimes, the FUN of a saga such as ST can inspire us to become better than we already are. That’s one message that it never hurts to be reminded of. Kirk said the quintesential “message” [which I inferred to in post #4 above without naming it], to one of Mudd’s women: “There’s only one kind of [human]: you either believe in yourself, or you dont.” Now, who said that stunninly profound moral message to JIM in the first place? Was it his mom? His dad? Sam? His uncle? Capt. Garrovick? Capt. Pike? An elderly Jonathan Archer or T’Pol? We may find out in another year.
FUN? Yes. Inspiring? Absolutely. Good “messages” for all of us presented during the entire ST saga? You bet! (BTW, that line, that “important message,” from TOS episode ‘Mudd’s Women’ is what hooked me on ST from the beginning—and then I just had to keep tuning in each week to hear what they would say next. THAT was refreshing, and lifting to the soul! Think about it: and think about the same kind of things said by all five ST crews over the past 40 years to all of us, through the writings that were put to film. That’s one time when entertainment is at its best.)
#25: “…..I love Trek, but I don’t expect it to change the world. Hell it came out in 1966, so the world should have gotten a whole lot better since then - if you buy into the theory that pop culture can make such changes occur. Don’t kid yourselves trekkies. Trek is pop culture, nothing more……”
Nothing more? Com’on, now. Again: it inspires! (—I say that with tremendous encouragement and excitement.) Look at cell phones, self-activating doors, nano-technology, replicators (—which are being developed IN REAL LIFE by researchers at various universities this decade—), etc. etc. — these were real life ideas that were presented in a scifi format throughout ST, and resulted in THEIR BEING INVENTED DURING OUR LIFETIME! What else can [this simple entertainment series] inspire mankind to do next? Maybe use technology RIGHT: for us, and not against us? That would be one type of “message” — and another reason why I posted #4, above.
#60: “…..ST has a great place in entertainment history and has inspired people-no doubt about it . But I think we need a little perspective.”
Perspective of the human condition appears to be exactly why GR created the show in the first place. Dr. Mae Jamison was inspired, as was Whoopi Goldberg, to become who they are today after seeing the multi-ethnic cast working UNITED on the USS Enterprise. And then, all the ‘generations’ of ST that came after added to the tapestry that we all know today. (A philsophical debate on Trek Movie Report? Heck, YEAH! Talking out a situation helps lead us into exploration of ways to solve the dilemmas we face daily.)
My whole point, above in post #4, meant simply what is said to be Step One for anything to do with mass-marketing projects (which ST is these days: mass-marketed film projects at the movies or on television, produced by Paramount Pictures, For Entertainment, and perhaps in ST’s case, just a little bit more). Step One can be stated as: “[Creative artist(s) develope a message with the intent to dissemenate that message to the masses].” That’s paraphrased, but it gets the idea across. GR did that a lot with TOS, and then with TNG (—and that aspect of ST is continually referred to by Roberto and JJ, is it not?). From the outset in the early-to-mid 1960s, Lucille Ball, as head of Desilu Studios, bought into that ideal with GR’s pitch for a TV show that would be “a wagon train to the stars,” and set it into production on her backlot. That ideal didn’t stop at all when Paramount bought Desilu in 1968…… and now it’s more than 40 years later. And another ST movie is, today, just 1 year away from its planned release.
Will there be a Profound Message in this story? If it’s anything like TOS and/or TNG, there will be—and it will be a FUN story, hopefully allowing that message to mean many things to many people. Why include such a thing in ST? Well, as Spock might say, “It’s the human thing to do.”
@3 yes 2nd that , i will be a little longer for us in Ireland too , and wow hate to think about all the trek fans in germany
Should the Star Trek Movie not be postponed, it would be 231 days left!
Now where is the official cast photo?!
Where the heck is Stanky?
#70 “…From the outset in the early-to-mid 1960s, Lucille Ball, as head of Desilu Studios, bought into that ideal with GR’s pitch for a TV show that would be “a wagon train to the stars,” and set it into production on her backlot. ”
If I recall correctly from the Herb Solow / Bob Justman book, Lucy had no idea what Star Trek was. Going by the name, she thought it was some sort of USO tour.
Will the biggest spoiler be that Nero is half human, James Tiberius Kirk’s son? My guess anyway. Spock would be torn. The villian would not only be his best friend’s son but a half breed like himself. He could not help but feeling a certain for him.
a certain empathy for him.
4 and 70 … Thanks, Rhett, for eloquently noting why Star Trek is something more than just pop culture entertainment. It’s Trek’s very format that sets it apart from almost all SF. It’s a big part of why Trek remains special and relevant, because it’s not just another “dystopian future” science fiction universe, but one we would really want to live in.
In the ’60s Trek’s underlying message was “not only will we survive the Cold War and the nuclear threat, but thrive.” In the ’00s it could just as easily be “we will survive the threats posed by climate change, overpopulation and greed — and that nuclear threat that’s still around — and thrive.” I know it’s a lot to ask of the movie, but I hope it somehow works that spirit in. It won’t feel like Star Trek entirely to me without it.
For all those knee-jerk arguments that dystopian, dark SF is more realistic that what Star Trek depicts, since when is SF about striving for realism? Yes, it needs to be grounded to keep it from being total fantasy, but that doesn’t automatically mean it should be grim. And there’s almost no way to forecast humanity 300 years from now that could be more realistic than another forecast. If you lived in 1708, could you forecast life today “realistically?”
And besides, the true “dystopian future” is today, and the near future — to see what might become of the world in the wake of the Bush presidency.
@#11:
That’s good, but why don’t we borrow from the past? Star Trek III, if my memory isn’t too swiss-cheesed at this point:
“The human adventure is just beginning…”
:-)
The tagline for Star Trek is “The Future Begins…” It is shown in the first teaser trailer for the movie.
I can’t believe its only one year until Star Trek opens!
Seems like we’ve celebrated the one year mark before though somehow?!
I still remember the day I logged on to Trekmovie.com to see that the Star Trek had been moved back by four months. Hopefully this is the last time we celebrate the on year mark.
wow!
The future’s so bright, you gotta wear shades!
Um, yeah.
WHERE’S THE DAMN SHIP?!!
May 8th is my birthday :)