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
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!!!!!