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A Good 'Ol-Fasioned Trek Thread
What if the new movie is Kahn? How to Write it?
May 13 | A new and very funny video interview with Star Trek The Next Generation star Brent Spiner is online at YouTube.
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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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