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Nov 12 | Star Trek star Zachary Quinto is loosely attached to star in the romantic dramedy Whirligig, reports Risky Business.Quinto would play the lead role in the independent Canadian film, which is aiming to shoot early next year. The movie centers on a man who, in a misguided attempt to woo an older woman, befriends the woman's adopted son.Chaz Thorne is directing the pic, based on a screenplay by Michael Amo, creator of the Canadian supernatural series "The Listener."
Nov 11 | The CNS Foundation, is hosting an on-line charity auction at www.charitybuzz.com. One of the items they are auctioning is a signed movie poster of the new Star Trek movie which has all the cast members and writers. The president of our organization is Carol Abrams, JJ's mother, and she arranged for the donation from Bad Robot Production Company. J.J. Abrams is also a major donor to their organization. The funds raised will go to help find a cure to neurological disorders in children. The auction link is here.
Nov 10 | Candice Bergen, Charles Lisanby, Don Pardo, Gene Roddenberry, Tom and Dick Smothers and Bob Stewart have been selected as the next inductees into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame. They will be honored at a Jan. 20 ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel. "This year's inductees have challenged and shaped popular culture, changed television for the better and entertained us royally while doing so," TV Academy Chairman-CEO John Shaffner said. More info at the Hollywood Reporter
Nov 08 | Unreality-SF.net has interviewed Star Trerk author James Swallow about some of his upcoming projects. He talks about Titan: Synthesis and Seven Deadly Sins: The Slow Knife, as well as some forthcoming Doctor Who and Stargate stories.
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By GustavoLeao / 08:17, 18 June 2009 / Star Trek: Nemesis
RAMA's Screen posted a new interview with Star Trek actor Clifton Collins Jr, who played Romulan villain Ayel in J. J. Abrams Star Trek movie. Here are few excerpts.
RS: Let's talk about STAR TREK, man. How did you get the part?
CC: J.J. Abrams called me at home about STAR TREK,..he wrote a role for me based off of a Frankie Flores from my character in the movie Traffic, for Alias. He went to the casting director and said ‘I got this great role that I wrote and do you think Clifton Collins could do this?.. Do you think he'd even do it?, does he still do TV? And she said ‘yeah he'll do it' Abrams asked ‘are you sure?' and she said ‘yeah I'm positive' and Abrams asked again ‘why are you so positive?' and she was like ‘because he's my brother'. Abrams didn't know she was related to me (laugh) So I did 3 episodes
With STAR TREK, I heard my name my name being thrown around,
I heard my name and I heard Eric Bana's name. No real offer being made. So J.J. Abrams called me, pitched me the character, he pitched me Ayel in essence and he said ‘what do you think?' and I told him to call me again the next day. Just kidding (laugh)
I said ‘hell yeah!' I'd walk off a cliff for J.J. Abrams. he's a badasss. He has such a love for storytelling he's a loving person. There was not a single attitude on that set. There was no diva. We were working 18 hour days. This is a testament for J.J. and the entire team, the kind of set where the producer would walk on a set early morning, 4 in the morning, they were wrapping or something and he'd give this full speech of how hard we'd worked this week and how hard it's been but the difference between this producer and the producers I've worked in the past is that we really believed this guy, the kind of speeches that would make you cry like a little b*tch, trying to hold it back ya know (laugh)... it feels good to be appreciated at the end of the day.
RS: Were you a trekkie?
CC: Nobody on that whole set was a Trekkie
RS: Now true STAR TREK fans would know that this is not exactly an origin story, not the Shatner's Kirk origin story, it's J.J. Abrams version of origins story, the alternate parallel universe so did you get any negative comments from fans saying ‘hey you guys are doing it wrong, man!'
CC: No they didn't know about it, they had no clue. That thing was so tightly under wraps.
RS: It was well done that's why
CC: J.J. is just such a good storyteller, he just knows how to tell stories, man. he's a kid at heart, every great filmmaker is. He's approachable. He's just fun to work with
The full interview is here.
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