Showing posts with label star trek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label star trek. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Trek Casting Finished!
Following on from this post, the cast for Star Trek 11 - The Reimagining has been finalized. Everyone I mentioned in the previous post has been confirmed, including the previously rumoured Chris Pine as Jim Kirk! And the final crewmember to be confirmed is... Russell Crowe as Leonard 'Bones' McCoy! Just kidding, it's actually Karl Urban, the manly man who played Eomer in Lord of the Rings, fought imps in Doom, and took on Jason Bourne in 'The Bourne Supremacy'. In a weird cast, Urban's choice seems weirder still. This is going to be one strange movie! I'm anticipating and dreading it in equal measure. Next up, I'm sure, will be some shots of the crew in costume and probably in action, before we get a trailer to see them in motion, which will probably be months down the line but potentially sooner than with most movies given the rabid fanboy curiosity (and potential for negative publicity if they don't show something).
Friday, October 12, 2007
Trek Casting
After some decidedly mixed early casting news - Leonard Nimoy cameo, yay! Zacharay Quinto as Spock, ugh! - and rumours about who would play the legendary Captain James Tiberius Kirk - Matt Damon, excellent! - some solid news is finally coming out.
The villain, named Nero, has been cast and it is none other than former irradiated Hulk and Achilles victim Eric Bana! Seriously cool news, as Bana has been great in everything I've seen him in and I can buy him as a menacing villain. Second cool bit of casting news is that Simon Pegg, he of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz fame, will be playing Scotty! This is cool and also completely and utterly bizarre and will have to be seen to be believed - is Scotty going to be comic relief? Some guy named John Cho has also been cast as Sulu.
They join the already announced Anton Yelchin as Chekov and Zoe Saldana as Uhura. The big question remains - who will step into the 'hold your stomach in' tight fitting pants of Kirk? Some guy named Chris Pine is rumoured to be a potential candidate for the part. An unknown sounds like a good idea. This film will rest on the shoulders of whomever plays Kirk and the camaraderie that the central trio has together. And also on whatever J J Abrams and his writers bring to the table as well of course.
This film is looking weird but interesting. Surely it'll at least be better than the last one, right?
The villain, named Nero, has been cast and it is none other than former irradiated Hulk and Achilles victim Eric Bana! Seriously cool news, as Bana has been great in everything I've seen him in and I can buy him as a menacing villain. Second cool bit of casting news is that Simon Pegg, he of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz fame, will be playing Scotty! This is cool and also completely and utterly bizarre and will have to be seen to be believed - is Scotty going to be comic relief? Some guy named John Cho has also been cast as Sulu.
They join the already announced Anton Yelchin as Chekov and Zoe Saldana as Uhura. The big question remains - who will step into the 'hold your stomach in' tight fitting pants of Kirk? Some guy named Chris Pine is rumoured to be a potential candidate for the part. An unknown sounds like a good idea. This film will rest on the shoulders of whomever plays Kirk and the camaraderie that the central trio has together. And also on whatever J J Abrams and his writers bring to the table as well of course.
This film is looking weird but interesting. Surely it'll at least be better than the last one, right?
Friday, August 31, 2007
Boldly going... where others have gone before, only slightly differently
Well, it seems that one key detail about the new Start Trek movie coming out next year has been revealed via Moriarty at Ain't it Cool, and summarized a bit better at Chud.
It seems that it's going to be a reboot of sorts... it'll be an alternate timeline of Trek, a Trek where Captain James T. Kirk doesn't exist. Could be cool - a fresh start is what this franchise desperately needs, but by tying it into lame time travel shenanigans they may be tying it too much to the existing universe.
Hopefully not... hopefully, it'll be more of a clean slate. Time will tell.
It seems that it's going to be a reboot of sorts... it'll be an alternate timeline of Trek, a Trek where Captain James T. Kirk doesn't exist. Could be cool - a fresh start is what this franchise desperately needs, but by tying it into lame time travel shenanigans they may be tying it too much to the existing universe.
Hopefully not... hopefully, it'll be more of a clean slate. Time will tell.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Star Trek Lives!
Well, it's finally officially official! Although it was virtually official for some time, Paramount has now confirmed that Star Trek 11 will be released Christmas 2008, 6 years after the last travesty that was Star Trek Nemesis! And it's going to be written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and directed by Lost and Alias creator J.J. Abrams, the same people who made the mediocre Mission Impossible 3! Grrrreat! While they should certainly be able to churn out something better than Nemesis, I have my doubts this is going to reach the heights scaled by Wrath of Kahn, Undiscovered Country, and Generations (sorry haters, it was good, and easily the most cinematic of the TNG films).
The most interesting thing about this film is that it will "focus on the early lives of Captain James T Kirk and Mr Spock". Although it's easy to dismiss this as creative bankruptcy, I find the idea interesting. Abrams aims to recapture the "brilliance and optimism of Roddenberry's world" by setting it in Kirk's time. After the horrors of Voyager and Enterprise (alright, the last season was OK, but OK just doesn't cut it), this may be a good thing. The major downside is the sense of inevitability that naturally accompanies a prequel. Oh, and the tendency for prequels to suck.
The other factor is that feeling of Star Trek burnout. I just have to say... too soon! Enterprise has barely been gone two years, so by the time this film comes out it won't have been the lengthy hiatus that was needed for weary fans like me to wash away the bitter taste. On the plus side though, the talentless hacks that ran things into the ground won't be running the show, and that fact alone gives me a bit of that Roddenberry optimism Abrams promises to infuse into his film. Rumour has it... Matt Damon, Matt Damon! is in... talks to play... the iconic role that formerly... belonged to William Shatner. All will be revealed in good time, and I am mildly interested.
The most interesting thing about this film is that it will "focus on the early lives of Captain James T Kirk and Mr Spock". Although it's easy to dismiss this as creative bankruptcy, I find the idea interesting. Abrams aims to recapture the "brilliance and optimism of Roddenberry's world" by setting it in Kirk's time. After the horrors of Voyager and Enterprise (alright, the last season was OK, but OK just doesn't cut it), this may be a good thing. The major downside is the sense of inevitability that naturally accompanies a prequel. Oh, and the tendency for prequels to suck.
The other factor is that feeling of Star Trek burnout. I just have to say... too soon! Enterprise has barely been gone two years, so by the time this film comes out it won't have been the lengthy hiatus that was needed for weary fans like me to wash away the bitter taste. On the plus side though, the talentless hacks that ran things into the ground won't be running the show, and that fact alone gives me a bit of that Roddenberry optimism Abrams promises to infuse into his film. Rumour has it... Matt Damon, Matt Damon! is in... talks to play... the iconic role that formerly... belonged to William Shatner. All will be revealed in good time, and I am mildly interested.
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