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Sep 01 | George Takei will have a cameo in the new season of The Big Bang Theory. TV Squad reports that the former Star Trek actor will appear in an episode alongside guest star Katee Sackhoff. The show's executive producer Bill Prady suggested that Takei and Sackhoff will play different sides of Wolowitz's conscience as he considers reuniting with his ex-girlfriend Bernadette (Melissa Rauchberg).He explained: "George Takei plays himself, and he's the other person guiding Wolowitz in his thoughts as he tries to figure out what to do about Bernadette."
Aug 24 | Vulture has learned that Joe Hill's comic Locke & Key will no longer be coming to theaters, but instead will be adapted for television by Steven Spielberg, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Josh Friedman. Distributed by IDW Publishing, Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all. Friedman ("Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles") will write and produce. Kurtzman and Orci recently signed a deal with 20th Century Fox TV, so the studio will end up producing with Spielberg's DreamWorks TV.
Aug 18 | Jack Bender has signed on direct 7 Minutes in Heaven for Paramount, reports Heat Vision.The film, based on an original idea from Bender, tells the story of two teenagers who, upon returning from a round of the titular game, find all of their friends dead. J.J. Abrams will produce through Bad Robot, now at the stage of finding a writer to move the idea towards a full script.
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By GustavoLeao / 06:36, 17 October 2007 / Trek Books
Trek Movie Report posted the second part of an exclusive interview with Star Trek writers and authors Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, in which they talk about their Star Trek novels, including the prequel novel The Academy Collision Course, written with William Shatner, on sale this month. Here are few excerpts from the interview.
TrekMovie.com: Back in 1995 you guys were already successful writers on your own, so how did you end up working together with William Shatner?
Garfield Reeves-Stevens: I can remember to this day about getting that phone call. "Federation" was in manuscript and I got a call from [Pocket Books editor] Kevin Ryan who said they were talking to Shatner and wanted to know if we were interested with working him. We went to Bill's office and he had this idea, a romantic idea, and he told us the story and did the voices and it was great. Our question at the end, because it was a good Captain Kirk story, was ‘what about Spock and McCoy? What do they do?' And he said ‘we'll work that out.'
TrekMovie.com: I understand that Shatner pitched the Academy concept that became Collision Course to Paramount as a possible TV series...
Garfield: It started as a book proposal because Bill had this really neat twist about how Kirk and Spock got together and got into Starfleet Academy. We loved it and we started talking about how to turn it into a book series and we also thought it would be a great television series. We worked up the book pitch which Pocket said yes to. Then we honed it to see how it could be a television series and we went in with Bill to pitch it to Paramount. The idea was that they generally started thinking about a new series years before the current one ended. It would take them at least two years to get a show up and running. We were thinking of it following Enterprise or possibly overlapping the way DS9 did with TNG.
TrekMovie.com: Why did it not go forward as a show?
Garfield: There was a discussion ongoing as to whether it was better for Enterprise to be just one Trek show or part of two and there were numbers supporting both possibilities. Rick [Berman] was always of the belief that focusing on one show was best and you would dilute the audience if you have two. But if you have two, although each show might have slightly fewer viewers, you will end up with more overall. So they were exploring ideas and possibilities.
TrekMovie.com: Was Shatner to appear in this series?
Garfield: No, he would just be the executive producer.
TrekMovie.com: When news of the new Trek film first surfaced, the consistent rumor was that it was going to be about Kirk and Spock at the Academy. Many seem to believe that this violates canon.
Judith: We found a devilish way that fits with continuity.
Garfield: On the back of the "Star Trek Chronology" Mike and Denise [Okuda] talk about how some dates are inexact and cannot be determined precisely, and one of them is when Kirk and Spock were at the Academy. So we chose a date that fits within the ranges and it works out. We originally thought we would put McCoy in there as a grad student, but "Shore Leave" makes it clear that McCoy didn't know Kirk at the Academy. We really had this combed through by experts - the Okudas and a bunch of others. This is one of the most rigid books within continuity that we have ever done. But actually for this first book this is about how they get into the Academy and there is lots of action at the Academy. It is not until the final chapter that they actually join their first year.
The full interview, in which they talk more about the book and the new Star Trek movie, can be found here.
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