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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 / 06:37, 15 May 2009 / Star Trek: Nemesis
Journalist Matthew Pejkovic (who reviewed the new Star Trek movie for TrekWeb) posted in his site, Matt Movie Reviews, new interviews with director J.J. Abrams, and stars Chris Pine (Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock) and Karl Urban (McCoy). Here are excerpts of the Abrams interview.
"I approached it from the point of view of what's a good story, and what's a compelling movie", said Abrams. "Not necessarily what's a compelling Star Trek move, because the priority for me needed to be: How do I write a story that will work for me?"
"We were working on the script for about a year, and I found myself really intrigued by it, and excited by what it could be, and literally planning on thinking on who the director would be to come in and do it. And I had this sort of sense of where it could go, and then I read the script, and I was like: Hell if I'm gonna give this to someone else! I was so excited by it, and I thought that I would be an idiot...I just know that I would be jealous of whoever it was that would get to yell action or cut on the movie. If I didn't do it myself -or at least try- then I would regret it always."
"I was not a huge fan of Trek, and because of that, I didn't have that sense of terror, or reverence that I needed to necessarily adhere to what come before," stated Abrams. "My goal was trying to make this thing believable. Despite it being Star Trek, despite its province, despite its science fiction and fantasy, how do you believe it? And that was really all about casting actors who have been terrific."
"I wrote this script for Superman years ago, and it ended up being reviewed online, and it was a work in progress, not a completed script, and it was decimated!" revealed Abrams. "And the reaction was a really interesting thing, since it was one of things that it happened in a way that on the one hand I was, like, horrified. But on the other hand it was very educational."
AAccording to Abrams, all praise for anything Trek should go to its creator: "What was fascinating with what Roddenberry was able to do was...yes he wrote the show and crated the show, but it was fascinating even looking at things like...I got my hands on as much stuff as I could. I even got my hands on notes that he wrote to the producers of the third Star Trek film. And at that point I think he was almost relegated to the sidelines, and yet he was still voicing his opinion, writing about the vision of the future, how essentially war had been rendered obsolete. His view was not just a surface view. He really had this deep sense of what society would be like, and how it functioned. And I was just stunned by that, because it was wonderful to see how thought out it was. He just knew it and felt it. So I was really incredibly humbled by his talent and vision, and fee lucky to be able to visit this world he created."
The interviews with Pine, Quinto and Urban can be found here.
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