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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 / 08:03, 26 April 2009 / Star Trek: Nemesis
The May 4th issue of Newsweek magazine features a cover story on the new Star Trek movie and the history of the Trek franchise. Here is an excerpt of the article titled We're All Trekkies Now, written by Steve Daly (cover courtesy of TrekMovie.com) Beware of minor spoilers.
Of course, "Star Trek" is also a reboot, a shakeup of sacred "Trek" canon that changes lots of details even as it respects many ground rules. There's always the chance that could go down badly with Trekkies, able to Twitter instantly about anything they don't like all through opening weekend. To smooth over the continuity hiccups, Abrams's screenwriters, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, have devised a black-hole-triggered time-travel scenario that explains away all the differences between the "Trek" universe we've come to know and this one, which is literally an alternate reality. Fans may be debating the logic all summer. But chat-board worrywarts should ultimately be very happy with Abrams's decision to lure veteran Nimoy into the center of this rewritten-history plot, in a substantial role as "Spock Prime." Don't ask us any more details, or we'll have to nerve-pinch you.
It's the Spock plot strands that give the new "Trek" its best shot at once again commanding the zeitgeist. Spock's cool, analytical nature feels more fascinating and topical than ever now that we've put a sort of Vulcan in the White House. All through the election campaign, columnists compared President Obama's unflappably logical demeanor and prominent ears with Mr. Spock's. But as Spock's complicated racial backstory is spun out in detail in the new "Trek"-right back into childhood-the Obama parallels keep deepening. Like Obama, Spock is the product of a mixed marriage (actually, an interstellar mixed marriage), and he suffers blunt manifestations of prejudice as a result. As played by Zachary Quinto, the young Spock loves his human mother, but longs to assimilate completely into his Vulcan father Sarek's ways, eschewing messy emotions the way all Vulcans do. Young Spock is constantly being told by Vulcans and humans alike that he's either seething with inappropriate emotions-indeed, he takes Kirk by the throat at one point-or that he's not emotional enough and shouldn't be so repressed. Obama may or may not be a fan-the White House says he isn't, but Trekkies have claimed him as one of their breed ever since he said, "I grew up on 'Star Trek'-I believe in the final frontier," at a campaign stop last year. If he does check out the new movie, I can imagine he might feel a special empathy for Spock's position, given the chattering class's insistence that he needs to show more emotion, too.
The full article can be found here.
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