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The latest issue of TV Guide magazine, just out in the U.S., features an exclusive interview with Star Trek movie director J.J. Abrams. Here are few excerpts.

On Trek, one of the people you worked with was Leonard freakin' Nimoy!

I know! But it's funny, because it wasn't until very recently that it really hit me how cool that was. There was so much work to do during the shoot and there were so many fires that needed putting out that there wasn't much time to sit and acknowledge the reality of working with him. Then the other day I was watching the movie, and there he was There was Spock! And it hit me like, "Holy s---!" [Laughs] It was kind of a huge delay.

There are still nearly nine months until Trek's release. What can you tell us ?

All I can say is that I think this movie is going to be worth the wait. It's blessed with a wonderful optimism and an incredibly alive and invested cast. While the visual effects are gonna be unbelievable, the movie is working right now with only 50 of our 1000-plus visual effects finished. It's funny, it's scary, it's dramatic, emotional and entertaining - all without having the stuff you'd think a movie called "Star Trek" would require. That to me is exciting.

A scan of the full interview can be found here.



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By: Hbasm (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:06:42 on Aug 23, 2008

Imagine Star Wars 1-3 minus the special effects. What's left? A story that could potentially become many different movies.

These unbelievable special effects for Star Trek may yet change the movie, for better or worse.


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By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:53:23 on Aug 22, 2008 | Edit History (2)

Quote from J.J. Abrams:
There was so much work to do during the shoot and there were so many fires that needed putting out that there wasn't much time to sit and acknowledge the reality of working with him.


So many fires. Fires?? FIRES?!!

Vulcans have fire powers in ST:XI??!!11!

Oh, man, you're so gonna burn in hell for that breach of canon, JJ.

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By: HotStove (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 16:36:19 on Aug 22, 2008

...the headline is a little bit misleading. Or, maybe just not all-inclusive (not a dig at TW, by the way). I like that he mentions the cast and story as well as the effects. Yeah, like any fanboy worth his salt I like phasers and warp trails and things getting blowed up real good, but in the end it's all about the story. (Insert your favorite Star Wars special effects vs. story comparison here.)

Of course, what sucks for me will be the next 9 months of listening to hyperbole about how cool/mindblowing/spectacular this movie will be. We'll hear stories from everyone from Paramount's VPs to the guy who sweeps the soundstages. I'm sure that I'll at least [i]like[/i] the movie, but let's cut to the chase!

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    By: DAK23 (Odo's file, contact) @ 23:58:44 on Aug 22, 2008

    Okay, I'm just as anxious as anyone else about the new film, but day-yam! Will they just quit slapping each other on the back already? I getting sooo tired of hearing how "good" it's going to be. I understand if Nimoy is in it, it's probably going to be excellent anyway. However... Sometimes, the more a project is built up over longer periods of time, either the less substance it will have, or there will be less interest due to product oversaturation.


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      By: HotStove (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 11:58:37 on Aug 23, 2008

      Yeah, that's why having to wait until May will suck, not just because of, well, the waiting, but because we'll have to endure every pundit on the planet talking about how great/awful the movie will be.

      I don't know if there will be less interest due to the buildup, though. Hopefully, it'll be like that first sex you have with a girlfriend, when she's made you wait 3 months before giving up the goods and, when you finally do get some, it seems like the best you've ever had in your life!

      Good analogy? :)

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By: msspurlock (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:05:21 on Aug 22, 2008 | Edit History (2)

You almost never hear someone who's producing or directing a movie say it's going to be worth the wait and the movie will be great.

It's refreshing.

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By: The Real Dr McCoy (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:33:28 on Aug 22, 2008 | Edit History (1)


This is Sci-fi. Anything is possible. It's a lie to claim that you wanted to do something and to then not do it.

Now we hear that there are going to be over 1000 special effects in this movie. Well, with special effects, Anything is possible, including all the things he allegedly wanted to do. For him to now not to do those things...?

Liar X 2.

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    By: dark_mr_fripperton (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:13:18 on Aug 23, 2008

    Sure, in crappy, unwatchable scifi anything is possible and you can do just whatever the hell you want.

    In great, classic scifi, iternal rules and logic are followed.


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      By: The Real Dr McCoy (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:51:05 on Aug 23, 2008

      "Sure, in crappy, unwatchable scifi anything is possible and you can do just whatever the hell you want."

      Precisely.

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    By: Beamer (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:37:03 on Aug 22, 2008

    GET OVER IT! My word, you and the horse you rode in on make a sane person want to self-implode in the head. Good grief! Get over it. You know, I really hate logging on and posting anymore, but man, your comment just makes me want to jam a corncob in my hear just to get it over.

    The other poster is right. J.J. Abrams owes you nothing. You have done nothing to merit your "reward" other than buy tickets to a movie or purchase DVD's (or VHS or laserdisk...or whatever). And THAT doesn't entitle you to squat when it comes to the movie HE is producing. Yeah, he said he tried to get Shatner in the movie. Have you ever worked with people? Have you ever been in politics? Have you ever balanced a pea on the end of a straw while riding a bull at a rodeo? Well, that's what it's like to make a movie. Especially trying to satisfy the diaper-laden fans like yourself.

    It's fine for you to have an opinion. I like piano music. But if I go to a concert and the player just hits the same key over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over agian, yeah, it will get annoying and I will never want to listen to him again.

    Get it?

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      By: The Real Dr McCoy (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:57:55 on Aug 23, 2008

      "Get it? "

      I actually do, which is why I posted the above bit of sarcastic mockery.

      The absurdly over-the-top nature of it and the illegitimate "end illustration of the effect of fanaticism on reasoning" HTML tag weren't sufficient enough clues?

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    By: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:01:31 on Aug 22, 2008

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    Dude, get a f*cking life. He owes you nothing and if he wants to keep his movie a secret or imbellish a little? That's his right because he is making this movie, not you. If you are all butt hurt that he isn't laying every detail out for you on a silver platter? You know nothing about the business. Go buy a pair and quit b*tching about meaningless crap. It's getting tiring.

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      By: Tupperfan (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:07:01 on Aug 25, 2008

      Somewhat off-topic. Is it me or putting a * to censor "colorful metaphors" is kind of useless?

      I mean, if I would dare to use(I'd never!) words like fuck, fucking, fucked, clusterfuck, motherfucker, shit, shithead, shitfuck, fucking shit, bitching, bitch, motherfucking bitch shit, huge fucking douche, shoot, double dumbass on you and so on, I thing I'd still be published on Trekweb's forums. Don't quote me on that, we never know.

      Furthermore, if you self-censor your expletives in regard for younger or more sensitive audiences, they do remain easily recognizable and their force and meaning remains the same, thus not actually avoiding or softening the use of profanities. I don't think a kid reading f*ck would actually wonder what it could actually mean.

      So, yeah, and it's not only a question I'm asking you, but why people censor their own words, for fuck sakes??

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      By: Sam Cogley (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:16:44 on Aug 22, 2008

      *watches the SarcasmAir 707 soar over at 30,000 feet*

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        By: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:55:38 on Aug 22, 2008

        707!? Boy, unless you refuel military jets in mid-air for a living, you just dated yourself mister. :)

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          By: mustangman289 (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:44:57 on Aug 23, 2008

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          707!? Boy, unless you refuel military jets in mid-air for a living, you just dated yourself mister. :)

          707 is an appropriate illustration because it is contemporaneous with the TOS era that we first saw in our 1960's.


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By: Ralphis (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:40:13 on Aug 22, 2008

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all without having the stuff you'd think a movie called "Star Trek" would require.

Haha! Further proving my geek theory! You think we're all geeks, J.J. admit it!

I'm joking, by the way.

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    By: dark_mr_fripperton (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:27:23 on Aug 22, 2008

    ..."all without having the stuff you'd think a movie called "Star Trek" would require."

    Like the original cast?

    BA-ZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I as well am being humorous!


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      By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 14:48:51 on Aug 22, 2008

      I just dont know - with each new interview from Abrams, Nimoy or the other actors, I became more and more optimistic about this movie.

      And I am not joking, not this time.

      Gustavo

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        By: Ralphis (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:08:10 on Aug 22, 2008

        I really, really, really, really want this movie to be good... don't get me wrong. I want Star Trek to live long a prosper. (Yeah, I really did say that). I'm fine with a new cast of actors playing the parts. I'm fine with updating the ship and the bridge so it doesn't like like it's stuck in the 1960's. I'm fine with retconing little things if it helps the story. I realize Star Trek isn't real.

        BUT... I just have this fear that it's going to be ALL about the effects and nothing else. You hear so much about the effects and so little about the story. Now, yeah, effects are a big part of the movie. I get that. I want good effects! But let's not forget the story.

        I have said this before... The fact the Nimoy is even part of the flick gives me hope, however.

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          By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 22:11:23 on Aug 22, 2008 | Edit History (1)

          Quote from Ralphis:
          You hear so much about the effects and so little about the story.


          I'd promptly second your concern if the controlling creatives were writers Orci and Kurtzman, simply because of their awful box-office bonanza toy-commercial-cum-movie called Transformers.

          My faith rides not only on the glowing endorsement by old-school Nimoy, but also on evidence that JJ Abrams favors storytelling that attempts to mess with audience minds. In entertainment, I favor psychology (story) over technology (SFX), most any day.


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