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Anton Yelchin Says Movie is an Origin Story, Talks New Enterprise - Minor Spoilers

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By GustavoLeao / 11:27, 22 February 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Actor Anton Yelchin, the new Pavel Chekov from J.J. Abrams upcoming Star Trek prequel movie, is talking again, this time to the Chicago Sun-Times. Beware of spoilers.

"It is an origin story," he says. "It's really about how everyone's favorite characters ... got to the Enterprise. It's about how it all comes together. It's not just them arriving and saying, 'Let's just kick it on the Enterprise.' It's really an epic story full of different action and drama."

Regarding the new Enterprise NCC 1701, he says "The new Enterprise ship isn't straight out of the '60s. But they did take some '60s elements and keep them. The whole project is really a balance between the old series and the new film."

The original report is here.



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By: sb2004 (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:51:29 on Feb 24, 2008

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You sound extremely elitist atm, sure many blockbuster movies are horrible but there are a number which are fairly good and retain a good story. Jurassic Park, Batman Begins, the first 2 spiderman movies, Lord of the Rings, the original Star Wars trilogy, Terminator 1 and 2, E.T., Close encounters of the third kind, Casino Royale, need I go on? These are all excellent blockbuster films imo.

An even films that are generally considered to be "all action" often contain quite substantial plot and character development. POTC at World's End, according to some critics, should have been an hour shorter but they wanted to include a lot of character and drama. I guess some people just wanted the ships to blow up. Yet balancing character and action managed to get that film to the No. 1 box officie spot.

The new Trek film, in order to be a success (and, like, spawn more Trek) has to strike a balance. If it's all talking heads going on about utopianism, it'll bomb. If it's nothing but 90 minutes of starship dogfights, it'll bomb. But the fact is for a successful science fiction film, you need both, otherwise you're just catering to a small elite group and not to the mass.

And yes that often results in some people being turned off the product. I expect there will be many Trekkies who will burn their membership cards with this film, for many different reasons. Just as every past Trek production going back to the animated series provoked the same reaction. Lucas lost a lot of fans with his prequel trilogy, but gained a lot as well. And in Doctor Who fandom, you either have people calling Russell T Davies a TV god of Whedon proportions for his revival, or you have people condemning him as the UK equivalent of Rick Berman.

If the new Trek film turns you off, well that's fair enough. Fortunately you still have 42 years worth of other Trek that might satisfy your interests.

Al

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