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Brandon Routh no longer under contarct to play SUPERMAN
Megan Fox v. Michael Bay on the quality of Transformers
Universal scores movie rights to Asteroids, development
Commentary on TRANSFORMERS 2...MINOR SPOILERS
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Jul 03 | Leading sci-fi website, Totalscifionline.com has teamed up with Star Trek Magazine to find out who is the best villain in Star Trek. Together, they want to know the diabolical masterminds who have sent a shiver down your spine and set your heart pounding and the evil geniuses who make it seem good to e bad. The top Star Trek villain will appear on a special commemorative Star Trek
Magazine cover, to be revealed later this year. Your vote could also win you year's subscription to Star Trek Magazine.For information on how to cast your vote, go here
Jul 02 | Doug Drexler's Drex Files blog psoted a couple of making-of for two images in Pocket Books 2010 Ships of the Line calendar. You can see Greg Stewart's "Operation Return", and "We Come In Peace For All Mankind" by Robert Wilde.
Jul 02 | Company of Angels (CoA), which was co-founded in 1959 by actor Leonard Nimoy, is celebrating its 50th Anniversary as Los Angeles' oldest non profit professional theater now headquartered at the historic Alexandria Hotel in downtown LA. CoA is readying to celebrate this milestone in the history of Los Angeles Theater - with a prestigious Charity Awards Gala slated for October 17, 2009 which will honor actor Leonard Nimoy for his role as a founding member as well as veteran actor Robert Ellenstein. "I'm looking forward to celebrating Company of Angels' 50th Anniversary Award Ceremony and Gala." Nimoy says of this special event in which he is proud to be a part of Check out the official website to learn more about The Company of Angels
Jul 01 | There may be no new Boston Legal episodes, but William Shatner is keeping very busy these days. In addition to his new talk show, Raw Nerve, he took time out to film a new TV spot for Priceline, titled Lighten Up. The clip is viewable on the Priceline Travel Blog
Jun 28 | Eight weeks in, Star Trek still drew audiences in eighth ($3.6 million this weekend, $246.2 million overall).
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By GustavoLeao / 13:13, 13 December 2007 / Feature Films
The latest issue of Sci Fi Magazine features an exclusive interview with Star Trek movie writer and producer Roberto Orci and executive producer Bryan Burk. Here are few excerpts
"There are five of us originally involved, Bob Orci, Alex Kurtzman, myself, J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, and respectively we are across the board as far as Trekkers go." Burk said "But we all felt it was an incredible world that has existed for 40 years, and like some other great franchises, be it Batman or James Bond, it needed a boost by finding a new approach to the story and the world. It was too great to let it go away or continue on its current path."
Regarding the movie storyline, Orci said "There were many, many elements of the story that we had talked about just theoretically, if ever Star Trek were to come back. There was lots of stuff we wanted to do, and that was a blessing. Normally you dont have that much investment and research for a project you get hired to do. One of the things we fought for is that it not be called Star Trek 11. Because even if you were a fan back then or you haven't seen the last few [movies], with that title you might think it's like tuning in to Lost now and that you'll never catch up. So it's so important to get out the message that this, in a way, is Star Trek Zero. Its a reintroduction. We designed it so that if you know everything about Star Trek you will have one kind of an experience, because you will pick up on all kinds of references. If you are not a fan, those things will be an introduction, and it wont require you to know anything."
About the new cast playing iconic characters, Burk said "We went to all the original actors when we were casting the younger versions of themselves. Nimoy was totally on board with Zachary Quinto, as Shatner was with Chris Pine. Nichelle Nichols loved Zoe Saldana, and George Takei loved John Cho. It just feel like the baton was being passed in a very respectful way from them to us".
And wwhat about the rumors of William Shatner making an appearance in the movie ? Orci explains "There's two things. One, from our point of view we are still hoping to find a way [to put Shatner in the movie]. Secondly, one of the difficulties that was brought up and discussed with Shatner, when we all met him and pitched him ideas, is that Trek fans are sticklers for their canon. Unfortunately, Shatner's Captain Kirk was killed in Star Trek VII, so the difficult there is not just ignoring that or explaining it away in an unsatisfactoty way merely to get him back in. That is the struggle - the rigors of canon and not phoning it in just to have a cameo. From my point of view, its a very long shoot, and things can change. It's just whether we can figure it out."
"Our goal is twofold" says Orci " One is to make sure that the fans, who have been stewards of the continuity and who are some of the most intelligent fans of any franchises ever, that they be satisfied with anything that has the name Star Trek on it. But more importantly, the goal is really to introduce casual fans and people who dont know Star Trek at all to this universe and to connect it to today. The goal of Star Trek is that if you dont like sci-fi or know Star Trek, this will bring you into the world."
You can read the full article here.
OK, but will the theater confection counter serve Slusho, or Synthehol? ...
'Star Trek' Trailer Boldly Goes To 'Cloverfield' Audiences
It's been the subject of much speculation, but we can now confirm that the teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" will in fact be shown in front of certain buzzed-about pic this January.
"Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves has told MTV News that Paramount has picked his monster flick as the venue to unveil the "Trek" trailer. There isn't much more to report on that front, but Reeves did say that he's seen the teaser and that it's "awesome."
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Do the Guardian thingie story, (and stop listening to the lies of Ellison) and shatner's "fibs..about NOT being in the movie!!!!????
Yes... he is in the film.
my precious we swears it!!
we/i swears it! ...my love!,
REGARDS..
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Ellen: [female gunslinger walks up behind a preoccupied bartender] How about a room?
Horace: Whores next door.
Ellen: [carefully sets her cigar down] Say that again.
Horace: I said whores next door.
Ellen: [kicks the stool out from under him, catches his liquor bottle as he falls, & pours herself a drink] Now, do you have a room available?
Horace: Uh, room and bath, yes, ma'am, coming up!
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A place for everyone in Roddenberry's future, but not for our guttersnipe tonight...
Homeless Told Move Out Of Park, Make Way For Star Trek!
The city has rented out and fenced off over half of Lincoln Park for Paramount Studios' filming of the latest Star Trek movie -- displacing homeless people who squat there in this happiest time of the year.
I wonder how we can spare cops to guard movie sets when every politician who runs for public office says that he will hire more cops to battle escalating crime. Maybe they just schedule less crime for the days that Hollywood is in town. I wonder if they keep statistics on how much the crime rate falls when Long Beach cops are busy being paid to guard Hollywood's most essential secrets.
When Santa became just another "red shirt"...
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Star Trek: Alien Spotlight - Orions
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Quote from Roberto Orci:
We are still hoping to find a way [to put Shatner in the movie]
The Shatner issue continues to be as viral as JJ's Cloverfield PR: it surfaces in ST:XI overviews, in talk about Shat's awards, and on signage in the WGA strike. Brilliant.
Writers' Strike: The Directors' Cut?
As Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore walked the Paramount picket line Monday, he articulated the view shared by most writers. Moore waged a protracted battle with NBC Universal last year over delivering unpaid, uncredited webisodes of his show. "That taught me the lesson that the studios thought Internet stuff somehow existed in this magical realm where they didn't have to pay anybody and they could do whatever they want," Moore says. "That experience a year ago lead me to believe we were gonna be in this situation today. It's wearying to be in this sort of limbo state. Now all eyes turn to the DGA."
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The Wrath of Khan - Death of Spock Figures
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Ok, from page 30. last paragraph, 2nd sentance:
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Star Trek is their love letter to the fans and franchise and they hope it is expected in that spirit.
First time now, I have felt a little sick about this movie. The last time we got a "valentine" it was like getting crapped on.
And for those of you with short memories, the "valentine" was from Berman and Braga and came in the form of the TNG wraparound to the Enterprise finale.
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That's so funny -- the continuity sticklers are stickled by their own sticklerness!
It's funny that the Bring Back Shat crowd are the same bunch that is so anal rententive about canon, and their anality has married them to the "Generations" debacle.
Shat can drone on about he's the "money" star, and "there at the beginning" and all that, but he already closed his own door on future appearances as Kirk, now we're all stuck with it. But even if they did offer him only a cameo, would his Great Big Head settle for that?
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GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show!.... You've turned an enjoyable little job, that I did as a lark for a few years, into a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME! -- William Shatner on Saturday Night Live (1986)
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