Star Trek XI - spoilers!

[Rico]

Brief comments from Nimoy about playing Spock again...

I've had a great time working on the movie. I expect to finish around the end of March. The level of production, the quality, the size and the talent continue to impress me. The people I've worked with have all been extremely enthusiastic and JJ Abrams impresses me as a very special talent and as a person.

Is it strange to be playing Spock again after so many years? Definitely...and I'm having a wonderful time !!

The opening date of the picture has been pushed off to summer of '09 and I take that as a vote of confidence. It is an additional cost to the company to do this and I assume they have decided that the footage they are seeing is exciting and makes it worthwhile to make the additional investment.

I look forward to appearing at the conventions in the near future.

source:
http://trekmovie.com/2008/03/05/nimoy-log-is-it-strange-to-play-spock-again/

[Geekyfanboy]

A Friend Gives Cho a Brief Glimpse of His Great Responsibility

Actor John Cho ("Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle") is starring as the new Sulu in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" prequel set for a May 8, 2009 release.

Just recently it hit him how great a responsibility he has undertaken by accepting the iconic role played for 40 plus years by the legendary George Takei.

As he began shooting his segment of the "Star Trek" filming schedule a close friend of his emailed him to congratulate him on the gig. Now that Cho is wrapping up his segment of the "Star Trek" shooting schedule he reflected on that email and came to realize that it really brought it home to him just how important this role is, to not only his career and his friends, but to millions upon millions of Star Trek fans spanning nearly three generations from all across the globe.

"Right after I got the gig, a friend of a friend e-mailed me and said, you know, `Congratulations, I'm so happy for you, and also I just wanted to impart to you how great a responsibility this is,' and, like, just went on for a while about how important it was and how `Star Trek' changed his life and how it's responsible for everything good in his life," Cho said. "And he also went on to claim that `Star Trek' is the predecessor to the iPod, cell phones and all that.

"So it is daunting, it's scary. Frankly, I'm not used to this kind of heat," he added. "Usually somebody asks, `What are you working on next?' and you tell them the name of the project and they're like, `What is it?' and you're like, `Uh, two guys go to a hamburger place.' They're like, `Yeah, right. Good luck with that.' And this is the first time everyone knows what I'm talking about."

Commenting on Abrams' tight-lip policy, Cho commented, "But I think he [Abrams] sees it as a favor to fans to keep everything on the down-low because he's a very enthusiastic moviegoer, and he wants to be surprised and he wants things to be kept from him until the last minute," Cho said of the director. "But it's been going great, what can I say except that it's really thrilling. There are a few dreams that you have when you're a little boy: It's cowboys and Indians, it's being on a spaceship. This is one of the great fantasies of my life."

[Meds]

Here here for JJ's comments about being tight lipped. Imagine if that really does happen, how excited we'll all be if we don't know hardly anything about the film when we sit down in that cinema. For me personnaly the hairs on the back of my neck stood up when the trailer was played so i dread to think what i'll be like when the actual movie starts to play in May next year.

[Rico]

Thought this was a cool images collection.  Shows the cast for the movie along side who they are playing.  Pretty good matches in most cases.

credit:  www.screenrant.com

[billybob476]

Chekhov needs a Beatles wig!

[Geekyfanboy]

So they are shooting this film called CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS right down the street from where I live at Cal State Northridge.. check out the photos I found at Ain't it Cool.com

Looks highly suspicious.. me thinks it's Starfleet Academy.

Doesn't give away much.. just a bunch of extras.

[Bryancd]

Too cool!!!

[Ricardocameron]

NASA Scientist Tapped for Star Trek Film


Carolyn Porco, the lead imaging scientist on the joint NASA/ESA Cassini mission to Saturn has been tapped by the "Star Trek" (2008) crew to provide her expertise to the graphics teams. She will be ensuring that the sets, mattes, and planets are all realistic and at least scientifically plausible, following a time-honored Star Trek tradition of bringing aboard scientific advisors to make the film that much more real.

THANK THE LORDS OF COBOL!!!  They should also have used Mr. Andre Bormanis, IMHO...And the Okuda's, but they are involved, right?
  :D

[Ricardocameron]

So they are shooting this film called CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS right down the street from where I live at Cal State Northridge.. check out the photos I found at Ain't it Cool.com

Looks highly suspicious.. me thinks it's Starfleet Academy.

Doesn't give away much.. just a bunch of extras.

Yeah, look at all the uniforms...and notice the little "solar-electric-car"

[Rico]

Pretty cool.  I think I see a few mini skirts out there too.

[Geekyfanboy]

Good eye Rico.. looks like the mini's are back :)

[Geekyfanboy]

Moore Has Trek Déjà Vu

Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ronald D. Moore, who also worked on several Star Trek projects, told SCI FI Wire that he had a sense of déjà vu when he visited the set of J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek movie, which is currently in production.

Moore was invited to visit the set recently by Abrams. (Moore worked on The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager and the films Generations and First Contact.)

"Oh, that was amazing," Moore said about his visit in an interview. "It was really great for me. They were shooting on one of our old [Paramount] soundstages on the day that I was there. So to walk on one of our old stages and see a Federation starship again was a treat. There was a positive vibe in the cast and the crew. I really appreciated the visual look of it, and I was excited to see the uniforms and all that kind of really hardcore, Trekkie geek stuff came flying back to me."

Moore said he did not read the Star Trek script and thus doesn't know the direction in which Abrams is steering the franchise. But Moore praised the decision to bring in new blood following 18 years of Star Trek television shows and features overseen by Rick Berman and his team.

"I thought it was a very smart move to sort of clear the decks, wipe the slate clean and start over," Moore said. "I just think that Star Trek had gone on for so long and had developed such a complicated backstory and so much continuity that it really wasn't possible for any one writer or any one group of writers, really, to keep it all straight anymore."

The result, Moore said, was that viewers and moviegoers had to be so "inside Trek" to appreciate it anymore, which created a barrier for potential audiences. "And that meant there was a whole legion of people out there that weren't even going to make the effort because it was just too much work," Moore said. "This really gives it a chance to start over and bring everybody back to what made it so great to begin with."

Abrams' Trek, which aims to reboot the franchise, is due in theaters in May 2009. --Ian Spelling

[iceman]

Too cool

[Meds]

Nice interview with Peggy if you go to this link (sorry if this has already been reported Kenny)

http://trekmovie.com/2008/03/25/pegg-james-doohan-is-scotty/

[Rico]

Some interesting new pictures.  Check them out....