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Sep 05 | Moon, Duncan Jones’ poignant and thought-provoking psychodrama about a lonely lunar miner, won the 2010 Hugo Award for best sci-fi movie.The award, technically titled “best dramatic presentation, long form,” honored screenplay writer Nathan Parker as well as Jones, who came up with the story and directed the movie. The indie movie, Jones’ feature debut, bested big-budget competitors like Avatar, Star Trek, Up and District 9.
Sep 02 | Manchester Starfleet is a UK based Star Trek fan club. They recently turned one year young and proudly announced the registration of their 200th member. In the wake of Star Trek XI (2009), Manchester Starfleet was reborn. One year on and they already have 2 Trek conventions under their belt with the 3rd in October 2010 being their biggest yet. Their website appears on top of most search websites. The member's discussion forum is always very busy and they have an online store with club t-shirts and other trek-related merchandise in the making. So please join us in welcoming their 200th member and applauding the club's continued interest and success. Considering Star Trek has been off our screens for some time, it's wonderful to see there is still a huge and still growing fan base in the UK (partly thanks to JJ.Abrams). May Trek Live Long and Prosper.Manchester Starfleet is a not for profit, charity-led Star Trek Fan Club, run by the fans for the fans.Manchester Starfleet's Mini-Con 3 event is on the 23rd October 2010 at the Trafford Hall Hotel, Manchester. Tickets are on sale now via their online store.
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.
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By GustavoLeao / 06:24, 28 July 2009 / Star Trek: Nemesis
ClickOnDetroit posted an interview with Star Trek actor Bruce Greenwood (Captain Pike) and here are excerpts from the article.
"I think we all felt the pressure to varying degrees, and probably none more than Chris Pine and (Spock actor) Zachary Quinto," Greenwood said. "But J.J.[Abrams] also told to us, 'Look carefully at as much old footage as you'd like to absorb, and then from there, use that as a departure point.' So I looked at the original series in great detail and Jeffrey Hunter's portrayal, and realized pretty quickly realized that the dilemmas the two Pikes faced were quite different, so I feel lucky in that regard."
"I did virtually no green screen work (for special effects) in the film. For every scene I was in, the sets had been built," Greenwood explained. "So when I walked onto the Narada, it was a whole ship. It was crazy. You hardly had to imagine anything. It was massive and dripping with hydraulic fluid, and had fumes and smoke."
"When I walked on the bridge of the Enterprise for the first time, it was complete. It felt like a flawless ergonomic working environment," Greenwood recalled. "It was human in scale, sleek and futuristic."
"I didn't know enough about the show prior to the movie to claim that I was even a fan. I had seen the series a couple of dozen times when I was a kid, but hadn't paid enough attention to it. I was looking at it for the pretty girls," Greenwood said. "But when I went back and did my homework to prepare for the movie, I realized that a lot of the stories in the series -- particularly in the first year -- had these very classical themes."
The full interview is here.
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