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Post by Captain Hawke on Jun 4, 2007 21:04:46 GMT -6
Source: creationent.com STAR TREK FILM TO LAUNCH DECEMBER 2008 PREQUEL TO FOCUS ON YOUNG KIRK and SPOCK
The joyous news has now been officially announced as Paramount Pictures said it will release J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek XI" on Christmas Day 2008, resurrecting the cult franchise after a six-year hiatus.
The newest installment, a prequel focusing on a young Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, is the first to be slotted for release on the holiday. Abrams, who has been developing the project, is set to begin lensing in the fall. He is producing with his "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are penning the script; they collaborated with Abrams when writing "Mission: Impossible III." They will also take exec producing credits, along with Bryan Burk.
The 10 previous "Star Trek" films have grossed more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office. The new feature film and all the latest casting developments and ongoing reports will be discussed at the convention. Be sure to be in attendance as STAR TREK LIVES again!
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Post by Logan on Jun 5, 2007 8:18:14 GMT -6
I'm waiting to see who the final cast is on this. I heard somewhere that it would be Matt Damon as Kirk, Adrian Brody as Spock and Gary Sinise as Bones. Brody and Sinise I can live with, but I will laugh the entire way through if they use Damon. And, I'm not thrilled with their choice of setting either. i think Enterprise's failure should tell them that retreads in Trek aren't what the fans are hungry for. Why can't they give me a DS9 movie? Or a New Frontier one?
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Post by Captain Hawke on Jun 5, 2007 14:01:44 GMT -6
Here's everything I can find on startrek.com anout the new Star Trek movie...
Source: startrek.com 02.27.2007 Christmas Day 2008 Release for "Star Trek XI"
The next motion picture of the Star Trek franchise, tentatively titled "Star Trek XI," will begin filming this fall for theatrical release on Christmas Day 2008. The official announcement was made today by Paramount Pictures. Last Friday J.J. Abrams, already announced as producer of the project, finalized a deal to also direct the movie (related story). The screenplay, which reportedly will be a prequel revolving around a young James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, has been written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who previously collaborated with Abrams on "Mission Impossible III." Kurtzman and Orci will executive produce with Bryan Burk, and Abrams will produce along with Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof.
"If there's something I'm dying to see, it's the brilliance and optimism of [Gene] Roddenberry's world brought back to the big screen," said Abrams. "Alex and Bob wrote an amazing script that embraces and respects Trek canon, but charts its own course. Our goal is to make a picture for everyone — life-long fans and the uninitiated. Needless to say, I am honored and excited to be part of this next chapter of Star Trek."
Brad Grey, chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, said, "We could not be more thrilled to be back in business with J.J. Abrams. The revival of the Star Trek franchise is an important part of Paramount's turnaround."
Source: startrek.com 03.08.2007 "Trek XI" Writers Talk, Drop Hints
The title of the eleventh film in the Star Trek franchise may simply be "Star Trek," and it's being considered more a reimagining than a prequel, the writers of the project revealed in an interview posted today on MTV.com. They also promised that the story will be a starship-based adventure with more action and a bigger budget than any previous "Trek" film. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci — the two screenwriters who also serve as executive producers — told MTV that "Star Trek" by itself is their intended title. "I don't think we want to put any colons or anything on it," Orci said. This detail about the "Star Trek XI" project is still up in the air, though, where the studio is concerned, and likely to be subject to change until the last minute.
The article contends that Kurtzman and Orci described the film as "not in any way a prequel but a reimagining of the franchise," without quoting them directly saying that. The article does quote Orci as saying, "We're not going to start totally from scratch." But, "We want it to feel like it's updated and of the now. That's actually the discussions we're having now: how to keep the look of the universe yet have it not look like nothing's new. It's tricky."
The writers did promise that this movie will contain more action than any "Trek" film that has preceded it, and said it will have the biggest budget. Apparently Paramount gave them no stipulations and no limits. "They were just like, what would you do with 'Star Trek'?" Orci recalled. "We've been watching [Trek] all our lives. I've even read the books. It was all about, what have I always wanted to see in Trek?"
Orci also said, "The economic models of the other [films] were very much based on the fans out there and their purchasing power. With this one we're going for the broad audience to bring people into Trek for the first time."
Kurtzman added, "The challenge of the movie is to be 100 percent true to the fanbase but also to bring in a whole new group of people who've never seen Trek before."
But they were still mum on the details of the story, or which characters will appear in it, deflecting such questions from the interviewer with a persistent "Who can say?" But they did allow that it will be a starship-based adventure. "I don't know how you make Star Trek without a starship," Orci laughed. "You have to trek through the stars, so you need a ship for that. There, you got something out of us!"
Kurtzman said the same thing about the oft-maligned "technobabble" staple of Trek scripts. "I actually love the technobabble!" Kurtzman said. "I don't think you can do Trek without technobabble."
Without discussing why, Kurtzman and Orci revealed that they and producer J.J. Abrams did recently visit with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. "It was pretty much the most stressful thing ever, but it was wonderful," Kurtzman said. "They were amazing."
While apparently describing the film as a "reimagining," the writers do believe their script adheres to the original vision of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. "Trek, more than anything, has always been about the human interactions," Orci said. "It's all about the human soul."
"And the friendships," Kurtzman added. "And everyone being a family. Whatever the story was, we always knew what it had to feel like."
The pair expressed relief that Abrams decided to direct the movie after reading the very first draft. "When we finally turned in the script I started lining up other directors, and that really got [Abrams] going," Orci joked.
As for other crew members, the article cited Scott Chambliss as production designer and Daniel Mindel as director of photography, who worked with Kurtzman, Orci and Abrams on Alias and "Mission: Impossible III."
On recent rumors regarding casting of key roles, the writer/producers were very coy, only saying things like, "We never said Bones was in it." Kurtzman did admit, "I'm the hugest Matt Damon fan ever. If he became [Kirk], great."
Source: startrek.com 03.12.2007 Abrams Talks about Directorial Decision
J.J. Abrams, the producer of "Star Trek XI" who recently signed with Paramount to also direct, has been talking about the project in a variety of forums, basically saying that after he read the completed script by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, it was so outstanding he couldn't not direct it. Abrams spoke March 2 at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, Calif., and then last Friday, March 9, at the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) Conference in Monterey, Calif. He also visited with Wired magazine for an interview that was published last week.
In each case his talks encompassed a range of topics, and the "Star Trek" project was only a small part of each one, if mentioned at all. The reason: "If I talk about this movie, everyone else who is involved with it knows where I live and will use that and, er, kill me," he joked at Cinequest.
However, he told the festival audience, "I can say that when the script came in it was so well written, it was so emotional, it was fun, and big and I found myself unable to not direct it!"
Double negatives notwithstanding, he continued, "I couldn't give it up. I think it's going to be great. If in my gut I felt there was nothing else to offer, I wouldn't do it. It's not a business decision, I would rather take no money and do something inspiring. I hope it ends up being both a really cool, original, emotional ride and comes from something that we're familiar with."
In the Wired article Abrams said something similar: "I'd feel like an idiot if I let someone else (direct) it." He also reiterated, "It's a little too early to talk about Star Trek, but I can't tell you how excited I am to do that (project). I'm thrilled."
He said the script is "clearly a fun, emotional and wild adventure," and he couldn't turn down the chance to take the helm. "This is going to be an incredibly fun movie. I can't believe that they're letting us do this," he exclaimed.
He also mentioned, without being specific, that he is getting input for the project from the "science/geek community," as the magazine put it. "I get the use of brilliant minds and futurists and people who are thinking these things through," Abrams said vaguely. "We'd be crazy not to take advantage of the information coming to us."
Also, he hopes to help Star Trek gaming reach its potential. "I love good games," he said, but added that games based on existing properties typically "falter because they're relying on the title and the name recognition instead of relying on game-play and story and content. So I feel like the ideal ... is when form and function come together. We definitely have the form, and the function needs to be better."
He's also supportive of the "fan film" phenomenon in the Star Trek community, and has viewed some of the made-for-the-Web productions. "I've seen some that are done with incredible passion and are really impressive. I love seeing anything that is created by anyone who is not doing it in a pre-existing system where resources and tools are available — the idea that someone is out there using off-the-shelf 3D software or, especially, software that is made by the entrepreneurial coder, who's out there creating their own software. I'm always making stuff, so the idea of people doing that is my favorite thing in the world. I love it."
At the TED Conference, Abrams apparently did not talk about "Star Trek" directly (per the blogs we've seen), but discoursed more generally about "mystery" in storytelling. In his presentation, he brought to the stage a wooden "Mystery Box" that he bought as a kid from a magic store in New York, a box with a big question mark printed on it. He has never opened that box and said he never will. "What I love about this box is that I find myself drawn to infinite possibility. Mystery is the catalyst for imagination. In my work, mystery boxes are everywhere." To illustrate his point, he said that "Jaws" and "Alien" were more compelling by the fact that we hardly ever saw the creature in each case.
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Post by Skyler on Jun 7, 2007 8:18:55 GMT -6
Being a Trek Nerd from way back, and loving the Original Trek the best, I really hope they do not screw this up. It could be pulled off if done right. I do not think it is the best way to go at all, but if done right, it could work at some levels. They can not mess with established Trek canon, thats what killed Emterprise. You can not create a show for a general audience that already has a built in audience. You have to cater to the fans that are there supporting you. You can not take what they love and trash it trying to draw in a new younger group or whatever that has never seen Trek. The new group will not watch because of the Trek = Geek phobia and the true fans are pi$$ed that it screws with what they love so they don't watch and you get a cancelled show. IF they truly want to make a Trek movie/series that stays true to the original and the fans would love, they need to look to groups like www.newvoyages.com and the other fan film groups that are keeping Gene's true vision alive and thriving and will be years after this latest in Paramounts attempt to milk the cash cow is forgotten. Just my two Federation Credits...... Brian
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Post by Logan on Jun 7, 2007 10:08:53 GMT -6
RED FLAG - "reimagining". Please don't reimagine something that is so classic.
They are going to destroy it. I just know it.
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Post by Captain Hawke on Jun 7, 2007 12:05:15 GMT -6
I was just going to point that out...
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Post by Skyler on Jun 7, 2007 19:55:19 GMT -6
I skimmed thru the article the first time and missed that..... How could they.... wait, never mind, look at what they did for other shows they thought they could make better... and while there are parts of all I could enjoy, using the names etc of my beloved characters destroys it on so many levels that its hard to enjoy the story they are trying to tell...... Trek, it was nice knowing you, I am glad I have the DVD's..... and New Voyages.....
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Post by Col. Charybdis on Jun 8, 2007 9:43:27 GMT -6
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Post by Skyler on Jun 8, 2007 10:57:39 GMT -6
Just think how bad Eps I-III would of have been if Lucas wasn't here to keep them from becoming a re-image.... talk about cringe factor.... ;-)
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Post by JustinB on Jun 10, 2007 4:38:50 GMT -6
I'm with Logan,
A DS9 movie would have been better. It would have been a reason for Sisko to leave the prophets and save the Alpha Quadrant from a new threat and save the Federation or something along those lines...
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