Abrams: Star Trek More Than A Prequel May 9, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: 1-18-08/Cloverfield, Abrams, Star Trek (2009 film) , 112 comments
In a very brief sidebar in the latest Rolling Stone magazine, director JJ Abrams is asked quick questions on Cloverfield, the Summer 2008 movie he is most looking forward to (X Files: I Want to Believe), his favorite website (SecretFunSpot.com) and one question on his upcoming Star Trek film.
Abrams Offers Two ‘Star Trek’ Premiere Tickets For Charity Auction May 5, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Abrams, Star Trek (2009 film) , 36 comments
One year from this week there is going to be a big gala premiere for the new Star Trek movie. Such events are usually just for the Hollywood elite, but thanks to director JJ Abrams you can go too. Abrams has offered up two tickets to the premiere for a charity auction going on right now on Ebay. The auction ends at 6PM Sunday May 11, and the bidding is already up to $2,550.
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JJ Abrams: Star Trek Never Given This Kind Of Treatment May 1, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Abrams, Star Trek (2009 film) , 218 comments
Last Saturday, JJ Abrams was a presenter at the Hollywood Life Magazine Young Hollywood Awards and AP caught up with him to talk a little Trek. As per usual, the Star Trek director wasn’t talking plot details beyond saying “It’s a chance to see what Kirk and Spock would look like done now,” but was keeping up the mainstream media message that the film is a new kind of Trek for both the fans and for non-fans.
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Takei Helped Abrams Choose Cho April 30, 2008
by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Abrams, ST09 Cast, TOS , 52 comments
George Takei has talked before about how he has met with Star Trek director JJ Abrams before the film was cast and that he enthusiastically approves of the new Sulu, John Cho. But in a new interview with CinemaSpy, the original Sulu says that he helped Abrams overcome concerns over fan reaction of casting Sulu with a non-Japanese actor.
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Abrams Contrasts Cloverfield and Trek April 25, 2008
by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: 1-18-08/Cloverfield, Abrams, Star Trek (2009 film) , 51 comments
Another video interview with Star Trek director JJ Abrams is online (part of his Cloverfield DVD release promotion). Abrams contrasts Cloverfield and Trek with AP, saying that Trek, unlike the ‘found video’ style of Cloverfield, is ‘massive’ and ‘epic.’ The director also talks about what the experience of shooting Trek has been like and the beginning of the editing process.
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Giacchino ‘Scared’ To Begin Star Trek Score April 24, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Music, ST09 Creative, Star Trek (2009 film) , 70 comments
Star Trek composer Michael Giacchino was the guest speaker at a recent ‘Zocalo Lecture’ at the LA County Museum of Art, where he talked of his path from a kid creating his own soundtracks to working with Spielberg on video game scores. Giacchino said that it was JJ Abrams who took him from games to TV and movies. He also talked a bit out how daunting it is for him to be taking on the Trek score.
Abrams: Star Trek Is Mind Blowing
by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: 1-18-08/Cloverfield, Abrams, Star Trek (2009 film) , 106 comments
Star Trek director JJ Abrams was interviewed on G4’s Attack of the Show yesterday to promote the new Cloverfield DVD release. Abrams talked about viral marketing, Cloverfield sequels, Lost and a bit about the beginnings of post-production for Star Trek. See the video interview below.
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Abrams: Star Trek Not For The Fans Alone [UPDATED] April 21, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: 1-18-08/Cloverfield, Abrams, Star Trek (2009 film) , 236 comments
While JJ Abrams is out doing promotional interviews for the upcoming DVD release of Cloverfield (which he produced) some Trek talk is slipping through. Even though last week Abrams touted the respect for Roddenberry’s vision, in some new interviews the Star Trek director made it clear that his new Trek is going to be ‘realer’ than ever before and targeting a whole new audience.
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Abrams: Star Trek True To Roddenberry’s Vision April 19, 2008
by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Abrams, Star Trek (2009 film) , 168 comments
Director JJ Abrams is now starting the long process of post-production for his Star Trek feature film and he talked to the LA Daily News about project. Abrams noted that “there hadn’t been this kind of action in a `Star Trek’ movie before” but he also went out of his way to talk about how (even though the film is totally ‘new’) it honors Trek’s past…
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Grand Slam XVI: Highlights From Orci Q&A April 13, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Orci/Kurtzman, Star Trek (2009 film) , 161 comments
The Grand Slam Sci-Fi Summit is over. The TrekMovie.com Q&A with Star Trek co-writer and exec. producer Bob Orci was well received. The audience was impressed with Orci’s level of geekdom and respect for Trek. Much of the Q&A covered ground that is well known to TrekMovie.com regulars, but there were a few new items, highlighted below.
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Grand Slam XVI: Behind the scenes Star Trek photos from Roberto Orci
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Orci/Kurtzman, Star Trek (2009 film), TrekMovie.com , 43 comments
The TrekMovie.com sponsored Grand Slam XVI: Q&A with Bob Orci has just started (Alex couldn’t make it due to a last minute thing). Bob sent over three exclusive fun little pictures from behind the scenes of the new Star Trek movie (with maybe a little spoiler). This article is timed so you folks in TrekMovie.com land can see a bit of what they are seeing in Burbank at the same time.
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Pegg: Abrams Not Making Trek For Biz But For Love March 27, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Abrams, ST09 Cast , 51 comments
Out promoting Run Fatboy Run, Simon Pegg continues taking Star Trek questions. Regarding the size of his role in the film, the actor tells AICN he worked on the film for five weeks and “the rough and tumble chirpy engineer from Linlithgow is very much in the film.” He also talked to AICN about Abrams approach to Trek and to EW about fan reaction to his casting.
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Announcing: TrekMovie.com Orci and Kurtzman Q&A At Grand Slam + Ticket Give-away [UPDATED: Available Globally] March 12, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Conventions/Events, Orci/Kurtzman, TrekMovie.com , 68 comments
TrekMovie.com is headed to beautiful downtown Burbank next month for the Creation Grand Slam Convention. The event is chock full of Trek and sci-fi celebs (including Spocks, Quinto and Nimoy). And today Creation and TrekMovie.com are announcing the addition of a TrekMovie.com Q&A with the writing team of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. We also have a pair of ‘Gold’ tickets to give away.
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Orci & Kurtzman Talk Trek, Transformers…Indy 4? [UPDATE: O&K Writing Superman Sequel?]
March 10, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Orci/Kurtzman, Sci-Fi , 87 comments
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are hot stuff these days. They have multiple big projects in the works from Transformers 2 to Eagle Eye to Fringe to a little thing called Star Trek. Which is why Entertainment Weekly’s new exclusive interview titled: “‘Star Trek’ Scribes: What Indiana Jones Means To Us” is a bit of a ‘WTF?’ But it turns out the pair are also huge Indy fans (as is TrekMovie.com…so deal with it). Kurtzman has even taught his two year-old son the Raiders theme.
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Burton and Nichols Compare Baird To Abrams March 3, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Abrams, Feature Films (TMP-NEM), Star Trek (2009 film), TNG, TOS , 207 comments
The last director to go to the final frontier was Stuart Baird for Star Trek Nemesis. Baird (who is an Oscar nominated editor) only got the Trek gig as payback for help he provided re-cutting Paramount’s M:I:II and Tomb Raider movies. After Nemesis bombed, the TNG cast have made no secret about how they feel about their final director. The latest example is in a new SciFi Pulse interview with LeVar Burton and TOS star Nichelle Nichols.
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Exclusive Interview: Damon Lindelof On New Release Date and Trek Appealing To Wider Audience March 1, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Interview, ST09 Creative , 173 comments
In part one of our interview with Star Trek producer Damon Lindelof we learned about his Trek fandom, favorites and connections to his other job, Lost. In part two we get down to details and discuss why the film release date was changed and how the change affects the production, budget and promotion. Lindelof also discusses how the film will appeal to both Trek fans and the wider film going audience.
Exclusive: Lindelof Talks Trek Essentials + Lost/Trek Connections February 28, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Interview, ST09 Creative , 156 comments
The core team behind the new Star Trek has been described as a "Supreme Court" comprised of co-writers Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman, along with director JJ Abrams, executive producer Bryan Burk and producer Damon Lindelof. Lindelof (also the Emmy-winning show runner for Lost) is said to be one of the bigger Trek fans on the team and so TrekMovie.com decided it was time to have a chat. In part one (below) of our interview, Lindelof describes his Trek favorites, Lost/Trek connections and what he sees as essential in the new Trek.
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