JJ Abrams Talks Star Trek Reboot
JJ Abrams recently wrapped principal photography on the new Star Trek movie and spent a little time with the Associated Press, claiming that he's made a movie that will surprise a lot of people. This either strikes you as great news or sends a chill up your spine, depending upon your love affair with all things Trek.
Read More (Source: Empire Online)“I feel like this is so unlike what you expect, so unlike the Star Trek you’ve seen," he said. "At the same time, it’s being true to what’s come before, honouring it. 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.”
“One of the writers who’s a devout Trekker. And we’re serving the people who are completely enamored with Star Trek. But we are not making the movie for that contingent alone. It was an opportunity to take what I think has been a maligned world — to sound crass, a franchise — and treat it in a way that made it something that I wanted to see. To take the characters, the thoughtfulness, the personalities, the sense of adventure, the idea of humanity working together, the sense of social commentary and innovation, all that stuff. To take it and apply it in a way that felt genuinely thrilling.”
