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Star Trek nod in Absolute Justice...
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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 GustavoLeao / 10:57, 8 June 2007 / General Star Trek
Trek Movie Report posted an exclusive interview with Battlestar Galactica Ronald D. Moore, in which he talks about the future of the Star Trek franchise on the big and small screen. Regarding the subject of Star Trek XI Moore told the site that he is a fan of J.J. Abrams. "He is tremendously talented and I think he is going to do a really good job," Here are a few excerpts.
TrekMovie.com: Last week your old DS9 comrade Ira Behr told me (story) that he thought the plans to return to the era of Kirk and Spock was the safe bet, but that it was also ‘marching backwards to the future', do you agree with that assessment?
Ron Moore: think I understand Ira's point and there is a lot of validity to saying they are stepping backwards, but at the same time I think it is the smart move to do it. I think the Star Trek universe has grown beyond what you can get your arms around. You can no longer truly enjoy it for what it is because it is so big and it has so many cross sections and so much continuity that it is maddening. I think only the truly hard core fans can keep all that together. So I think it is time to brush all that stuff over and say ‘what were the roots of all this again? , what was this really about?' It was about the 5 year mission with these guys on this ship and let's start over and tell a new set of tales. So I support them I think it is a really good move.
TrekMovie.com: Beyond the film, there are a lot of new genre TV shows getting the greenlight these days. Do you think that Star Trek and it's kind of futuristic space based sci-fi can work on network television today?
Ron Moore: I don't know I think that is tough. It hasn't been done and they have given it a try over the years, even the original Star Trek didn't make it on network TV. The broadcast networks needs such a large general audience and science fiction on TV has been such a narrower appeal. It is a strange equation of which I have never understood because if you look at the top ten feature films of all time it is almost all genre stuff...look at Star Wars. Why it doesn't work on TV I don't know.
More from Moore can be found at Trek Movie Report.
UPDATE : Moore also talked to IESB and said he is okay with a complete re-imagining of Star Trek.
"I'm very supportive in what they are doing," Moore tells the IESB. "I think starting over on Star Trek is the best possible route that you can go."
So does that mean Abrams should re-imagine it just like Moore did Galactica? "I think that you can re-imagine it, yes, I think that you can absolutely re-imagine Star Trek. Now I don't know that you have to, it doesn't have to be a Battlestar version of Star Trek...I don't know how radical is what J.J. Abrams has in mind," said Moore.
The original report (plus a video interview) is here.
UPDATE 2 : Collider also talked with Moore and asked him if Abrams had called him about the feature and what does he hopes to see with the new movie. Finally they asked him if they were to do a new Trek TV show after the feature film would he be willing to return to the franchise. See the video interview here.
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