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J.J. Abrams Says Star Trek Universe Has Never Been Given This Treatment

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By GustavoLeao / 09:13, 1 May 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Canadian Press posted a new interview with Star Trek movie director J.J. Abrams. Here are few excerpts.

"The whole point was to try to make this movie for fans of movies, not fans of `Star Trek,' necessarily,"' Abrams said. "If you're a fan, we've got one of the writers who's a devout Trekker, so we were able to make sure we were serving the people who are completely enamored with `Star Trek.' But we are not making the movie for that contingent alone.

"You can't really make a movie for them. As soon as you start to guess what you think they are going to want to see, you're in trouble. You have to make the movie in many ways for what you want to see yourself, make a movie you believe in. Then you're not second-guessing an audience you don't really have an understanding of."

"It's a chance to see what Kirk and Spock would look like done now," Abrams said. "What's thrilling about it is how great the cast is, how remarkably talented and funny and just spot-on they all are."

"I feel like this is so unlike what you expect, so unlike the `Star Trek' you've seen. At the same time, it's being true to what's come before, honoring it," Abrams said. "I can say the effects for `Star Trek' have never, ever been done like this. ... I can only tell you the idea of the universe of `Star Trek' has never been given this kind of treatment."

The full interview is here.



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By: Capricorn Two (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:31:54 on May 01, 2008

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That sounds like something Rick Berman would have said.

If Berman said something similar, then it's one of the few statements he made that was accurate.



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RE: Shades of Berman | Report this post to moderator
By: seventhstar (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:31:42 on May 01, 2008

Here's one of those eerily similar quotes: "You don't produce a television show by having a committee of fans dictate what you do."

I bet if you dig up some old Berman quotes and say that Abrams said them, you'd get a 180° different reaction from the fanbase.

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RE: Shades of Berman by c.p. @ 13:46:45 on May 01
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