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Nov 06 | J.J. Abrams is in talks to direct the opening episode of "Undercovers," his Warner Bros. secret agent pilot at NBC. Schedule permitting, Abrams, who also serves as executive producer and co-writer for the pilot, will make "Undercovers" the first TV pilot he has directed since 2004's "Lost" two-part opener, which is considered one of the best-directed pilots of all time and helped launch Abrams' career into helming such theatrical films as "Mission: Impossible 3" and "Star Trek." The NBC pilot has been described as a mix between "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and "The Bourne Identity." The original report is at the Hollywood Reporter.
Nov 05 | The upcoming MMORPG Star Trek Online has been given a release date. The game will be launched on February 2 in North America, and February 5 in Europe
Nov 02 | Journalist Edward Gross posted in his SciFi TV Zone.com website an animation that takes place on the bridge of the Enterprise, and it's where you can hear his... lord help us... impersonation of William Shatner. The url for the video is this.
Oct 27 | Leonard Nimoy narrates a new documentary about a historic synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The film profiles Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pa., the only synagogue designed by the renowned architect. The building, a National Historic Landmark, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. A screening of the film will be shown at the dedication of the synagogue's newly designed visitors center on Nov. 15. Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker magazine, will be on hand
Oct 27 | Leonard Nimoy is celebrating Halloween by taking pictures of the most crazily outfitted attendee at the Santa Monica Museum of Art's Halla Gala. Nimoy, who has practiced fine art photography since the age of 14, is offering a private portrait session at the Viceroy Santa Monica hotel to whomever wins the gala's Secret Self costume contest.
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By GustavoLeao / 11:26, 28 May 2008 / Feature Films
MTV posted a new interview with Star Trek star William Shatner, in which he once again talks about J.J. Abrams upcoming Star Trek movie. Here are few excerpts.
"I'm solidly behind being disappointed that I'm not in it," Shatner said [...] "It'll be interesting to see whether [the new movie] is successful or not. If anyone can make Star Trek live, [Abrams] can do it. The question is: Is it still alive, or is it time for all of us to move on?"
Regarding Chris Pine, the actor who is playing the young Kirk, Shatner said "I met him and just said hello."
Asked about Star Trek V The Final Frontier, the Trek movie he wrote and directed in 1989, he said "The extraordinary disappointment was that before the special effects went in, I asked the producer: Is this as good as I think it is? I thought it was pretty good, and the heads of the studio were saying ‘good job'. The problem of that movie [was too many] compromises. The original compromise was: Let's make it an alien who thinks he's God. Soon, I realized I had compromised the whole movie."
More from Shatner can be found here.
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Here are video clips of Shatner's 1992 MTV Movie Awards musical performances. Not too shabby for a guy with a concussion and horse manure in his ears...
"I Wanna Sex You Up"
"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"
MTV host Dennis Miller: "You know, balls-wise, Shatner has gone where no man has gone before."
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TFF is mentioned in a new Shatner article by The Jewish Week...
"When Shatner was given the chance to direct the fifth Star Trek movie, The Final Frontier, he wanted the film to reflect a spiritual quest, the search for God, but it proved too controversial for the studio and the series' creator, Gene Roddenberry. Shatner wanted Kirk and Spock literally to go to hell to save a trapped Dr. McCoy, building up to encounters with God and the devil. But the film that was produced had the crew face a deluded Vulcan who believed he knew the path to the creator, and culminated in another clichéd science-fiction face-off with a god-complex alien. The film made money, but was the most poorly received in the series.
"With the death of Kirk in the seventh film in 1994, Shatner may have found closure with the role. But he has continued to pen Star Trek novels that take place in a non-apocryphal universe, and he knows that in sci-fi, no character is truly dead. Spock died in the third movie and returned in the fourth. Kirk may yet have a similar resurrection, but it's on no one's immediate radar. "I've lost some influence in that area because of the change in management," says Shatner, referring to the recent handoff of the franchise from Rick Berman to J.J. Abrams, who produced the forthcoming Star Trek prequel. That film, for the first time, features another actor as Kirk. Although he'd reprise the role if the right script came along, his preference, of course, would be to see one of his Trek novels made into a film."
Shatner tells the Telegraph UK, "I look back upon [Star Trek] as the miracle that changed my life."
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