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Abrams Pal Greg Grunberg Attests Star Trek XI To Go Back in Time

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By TRexx / 03:42, 6 May 2006 / General Star Trek

Fans of the Alias and Felicity television series should recognize actor Greg Grunberg, who has appeared in numerous onscreen venues directed or written by J.J. Abrams -- including an uncredited scene in Lost, and a cameo in Mission: Impossible 3. Grunberg also made an appearance in The Dead Zone, created by the late Michael Piller.

"Greg, who's my oldest friend since kindergarten, is someone who -- I love working with Greg. He's my good luck charm," hearts J.J. at Zap2It.

The betting odds are in favor of Grunberg gearing up to flesh out the cast of Star Trek XI, an enterprise that has already extracted his exhilaration: "I hope [J.J.] gives me a great role in that," enthuses Grunberg. "I would love it" (story).

Officially, Paramount is saying that the Daily Variety (story) jumped the gun and announced the Trek deal a bit too early, reports IESB. "Before J.J. gets on the phone, journalists are warned not to ask about Star Trek." Undaunted, our peripatetic pen-pals at IESB caught Grunberg at the 2006 Saturn Awards, where their Q&A wormholed from NBC pilot Heroes to ST:XI...

IESB: So, if [Abrams] calls and says he wants you in Star Trek...

Grunberg: I have to see... check my schedule. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?! I'd love to be in that movie.

IESB: Here's a question: Are you a Star Trek fan, originally?

GG: I'm not a Star Trek fanatic, but I sure... I enjoy the series. I mean, you know, I enjoy the show.

IESB: So, you wouldn't object to recasting Kirk and Spock, like that rumor was saying, going around?

GG: Well, they have to -- we're going back in time. I think it's like the beginnings, it's when they were young, so they're going to have to. I just think it's interesting: J.J., you know, here he is, he took the Mission Impossible franchise and humanized it -- and I think he's going to do the same thing, you know, for Star Trek, certainly. And he's writing with Alex [Kurtzman] and Bob [Orci], I mean, they all wrote Mission together. It's going to be incredible. You know it's going to be great. I think that's what's going to reinvigorate -- you know, the Star Trek fans are gonna go see it; half of them are going to hate the fact that they're bringing them back, and half are going to love it. But, J.J.'s just going to bring in a whole new audience, you know, to it.

See this exclusive video interview with Greg Grunberg at IESB.net


J.J. Abrams' Saturn Award-winning Lost - The Complete First Season DVD is on sale now in the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and Deutschland.

 



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By: Keoki (Odo's file, contact) @ 06:42:23 on May 06, 2006 | Edit History (1)

I have never seen Lost or Alias, but I knew they were popular, so I was guardedly optimistic when I learned that Abrams had been chosen for Trek XI. Now that I've seen MI:3, however, I can only hope it's nothing like that disaster. Ridiculous plot, terrible pacing, awful acting - this kind of "humanization" Trek can do without!

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RE: Interesting by steveleenow @ 09:05:01 on May 06
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By: Son of Baba (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:44:53 on May 06, 2006

This guy sounds like he has no idea what he is talking about. For him to say that Trek needs a new audience and that it needs to be humanized tells me he has probably never sat down to watch very many episodes. What a jerk.

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By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 11:37:26 on May 06, 2006

Could they find actors who resembled Shatner and Nimoy and were good enough to capture their rapport and personalities? Would the audience be willing to accept them? Would the idea meet the same kind of "How dare you go against my preconceptions?" resistance that ENT got? Would a general audience expecting modern, high-tech looking designs find 2250s-era Starfleet turtlenecks and gooseneck viewers rather cheesy-looking? I'm not talking about my own opinions, but about the audience perceptions and reactions that might be faced.

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RE: Interesting by c.p. @ 12:30:23 on May 06
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By: The Imagemaster (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:13:45 on May 06, 2006

"IESB: So, you wouldn't object to recasting Kirk and Spock, like that rumor was saying, going around?

GG: Well, they have to -- we're going back in time. I think it's like the beginnings, it's when they were young, so they're going to have to. I just think it's interesting: J.J., you know, here he is, he took the Mission Impossible franchise and humanized it --and I think he's going to do the same thing, you know, for Star Trek, certainly. And he's writing with Alex [Kurtzman] and Bob [Orci], I mean, they all wrote Mission together. It's going to be incredible. You know it's going to be great. I think that's what's going to reinvigorate -- you know, the Star Trek fans are gonna go see it; half of them are going to hate the fact that they're bringing them back, and half are going to love it. But, J.J.'s just going to bring in a whole new audience, you know, to it."

GAG!!! GAG!!! GAG!!!

Won't pay 2 cents to see this. They'd better hope this is just disinformation...

Again...GAG!!! BLEECH!!!!

This is going to be Paramount's way of taking a gun and shooting the "golden goose" square in the head!

Stupid...

IM


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