There’s a new trailer for J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” film at the official site. The site has also undergone a redesign. However, it did ask me for a password to download desktop themes, not sure what that’s about. The film is set for a May 2009 release.
– Matt Price
And a little more hype for the upcoming JJ Abrams “Star Trek” film.
The official Star Trek Movie site has a clean new redesign and some new downloads, including the above one of Spock as played by Zachary Quinto. No new trailer just yet, though.
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With the double-shot of conventions this weekend, “Trek Expo” and “SoonerCon,” how did local fandom react? Anybody who visited a convention this weekend, feel free to give me a report here.
I’m recently returned from San Francisco, where I attended video game publisher 1C’s event announcing and demonstrating their games in the works for the next year. Keep an eye on Nerdage this week as I run down the highlights, and in Friday’s Weekend LOOK, I’ll also share a report.
– Matt Price
In a strange weekend of dueling Oklahoma conventions, Trek Expo in Tulsa is also this weekend. Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig and Helen Slater are among this year’s lineup of guests. For more information, visit www.trekexpo.net, and look for more coverage of Trek Expo by Renee Lawrence and Don Brown in Friday’s Weekend Look in The Oklahoman.
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Art from “Star Trek: Assignment Earth” #1
Kyle Roberts and I discuss “Star Trek: Assignment Earth” #1, by John Byrne; “Justice League of America” #21, by Dwayne McDuffie and Carlos Pacheco; and the career and legacy of retailer Rory Root, all on today’s comics podcast.
– Matt Price
The second-season “Star Trek” original series episode, “Assignment Earth,” featured Kirk and the Star Trek crew visiting 1960s earth.
Special agent Gary-7 and his sidekick Ms. Lincoln (played by Teri Garr) and the cat, Isis, were introduced as possible stars for a spinoff that never happened. Robert Lansing played Gary-7, sort of a futuristic James Bond from another planet, assigned to 1960s Earth.
Writer artist John Byrne, 40 years later, takes that premise and runs with it, creating “Star Trek: Assignment Earth” as a comic-book series. The five-part series features the time traveller and his assistant covertly tackling threats to the past.
Byrne’s art is in fine form here, and it’s well-written as well. Byrne has his bashers nowadays, but this is an interesting take on a spinoff that might have been. And “Time-travelling James Bond” seems like a good hook for a comic-book series. This one feels like a comic you could have read at the time, with nuclear tests, Soviet scientists, secret projects and double-crosses.
– Matt Price
As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the post-strike film slate is moving around somewhat, with perhaps the highest-profile mover J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek.” The new release date for “Trek” is May 8. 2009.
“ ’Star Trek’ is moving to summer because its has so much boxoffice potential,” spokesman Michael Vollman told the Reporter. “It does not need any script tweaks. They’re two-thirds of the way through shooting, and we would have delivered a great movie at Christmas.”
Kyle Roberts and I discuss the explosive conclusion to “X-Men: Messiah Complex” on this week’s podcast. We also cover “Iron Man” 25, “Star Trek Alien Spotlight: Borg,” and “Teen Titans” No. 55. Give it a listen!
- Matt Price
Yahoo Movies has debuted the teaser trailer for JJ Abrams’ “Star Trek,” set for release this Christmas. Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto star as a younger James T. Kirk and Spock at Starfleet Academy. (Edit: It’s now also up at the official site.)
Also check out this interesting Q&A at Trekmovie.com with writer Roberto Orci.
Much more in the link, but a few interesting tidbits:
TrekMovie.com: In my review I noted that the trailer seemed to be trying to make the connection from today to the future of Trek…was that the intention?
Roberto Orci: Absolutely. This is us. This is who we are. This is real. This is maybe not so far off in the future as it used to be. In the 60s the cell phone was a fantasy. Now the communicator that Kirk had is not as advanced as my iPhone. It is a different millennium for God’s sake. We are literally a century closer than we were before.
TrekMovie.com: You bring up the 60s. The trailer contains voices from the 60s space race, including John F. Kennedy. What was the thinking behind that? And is there some kind of JFK-Kirk link you are trying to make?
Roberto Orci: First of all, it has been written about that Kirk was in a way modeled after JFK. Like being the youngest captain ever, like Kennedy was the youngest President ever. Obviously the space race being kicked off by JFK is very much associated with Star Trek. It was also due to what we just discussed and linking it back to today.
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Overall, I think this is a nice move for the trailer, pulling in the history of space travel and reminding people what it was that made people so hungry for “Star Trek” in the first place.
– Matt Price
