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Feb 08 | While his "Lost" co-stars prepare to pack up and leave Hawaii, Daniel Dae Kim can plan to remain there for at least a few more months. Mr. Kim, who plays the time-traveling tough guy Jin on "Lost," has been the first actor cast in a coming remake of the crime drama "Hawaii Five-O," The Hollywood Reporter said. He has been cast as Chin Ho Kelly, a detective played by Kam Fong in the original series, which began in 1968. The "Hawaii Five-O" revival is being developed by the screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci ("Star Trek," "Fringe") and Peter Lenkov, an executive producer of "CSI: NY."
Feb 03 | William Shatner has paid tribute to his former Boston Legal co-star Justin Mentell, who died in a freak car accident on Monday. The 27 year old was thrown from his Jeep after swerving off the road near Madison, Wisconsin and died at the scene of the tragic crash. The Star Trek legend was saddened to hear of Mentell's passing - as he's convinced the actor was destined for a glittering career. In a post on his Twitter.com page, Shatner writes, "I'm deeply saddened to hear about Justin Mentell. There's no telling how far up the ladder he may have climbed. My sympathies to his family."
Feb 01 | Journalist Edward Gross posted an article at SciFiTVZone.com called "The Making of the Star Trek Pilots, Part 3: "Assignment Earth"" which takes a retrospective look at the making of the Gene Roddenberry unsold TV pilot "Assignment Earth" filmed at Desilu Studios as a second season Star Trek episode. The article feature rare interviews - including authors involved with the character of Gary Seven in comics and in novels.
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By Steve Krutzler / 17:07, 7 June 2006 / Feature Films
TrekWeb reader Christopher Allan Smith (MotherFraker) sent in the following report about Star Trek XI:
Recently, Jeff Goldsmith, Senior Editor for Creative Screenwriting
Magazine, interviewed Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci about MISSION:
IMPOSSIBLE 3 after a screening of the movie in May sponsored by the
magazine. In the magazine's podcast, dated May 26, the duo gave the
clearest indication yet of their plans for Star Trek XI.
Below is a word for word transcription of everything they said when
asked about their pending Star Trek work. To this listener, it's the
clearest indication yet they are not re-imagining (as this listener had
hoped) but building on the current canon. Enjoy.
Question: I know you can't say much, but is there anything you could
even tell us to interrelate you pick a starting point so vast and so
rich as Star Trek?
A: There are pockets within the universe, and we know the mythology
well, and we are fans of the novels that happen between the movies and
all that kind of stuff, which aren't even counted as part of the
mythology sometimes and we do know that there is a space to begin to
see a lot of the origins of a lot of the things we know and we're going
to start there. We're very mindful of being totally true to the
mythology and totally true to what's come there, and in a way try to
embrace the fact there's such a rich history to it that this is not a
case of trying to come in and be so clever that you're going to
reinvent everything. It's a case of coming in and using the stuff you
know is great and you know really works and not violating anything
that's come before it.
Question: So, are we able to say that this is going to be with
characters we know or new characters which preceed the characters we
know?
A: It will be a bit of both, I think. It will be both.
Link to magazine: http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/current.html
iTunes info: Go to Podcasts, Search for Creative Screenwriting, Episode
Dated May 26, 2006.
Podcast Timestamp 38 min. 33 seconds.
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