Lots of Star Trek love (and hate) flying around the internets today, as Leonard Nimoy spills some pretty big beans, a scooper claims to have read the shooting script and another person says they've seen footage. First off, Slashfilm reports (via CBS 2 in Los Angeles) that Leonard Nimoy (who'll be reprising his role as an older Spock for this new film) admitted there will be more than two Spocks in the J.J. Abrams-directed flick. He says, "I am Spock, and there is another Spock and there is another Spock. There are a total of three Spocks in the movie and that is all I will say about it." And who is that third Spock you might ask? Well, most likely it'll be a baby Spock, or a really young Spock -- the one they use in scenes with Winona Ryder, who was cast as Spock's mother. Not a big spoiler, I don't think, but it does seem more and more like this is Spock's movie.
Moving on, a couple super spy scoopers wrote into AICN; one claims to have read the shooting script, and one says they saw footage. There's lots of little spoilers included in both of their reports, but I will say the guy who read the script went off on screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. An example: "While this may sound okay, the way it's written is so ham fisted that it makes the TRANSFORMERS script read like Shakespeare." And some more: "The dialogue is about on par with their past works and some of the liberties they've taken are insanely sloppy." And one more nugget: "The problem with the script is all its blatant inconsistency with things in the TREK canon, not to be innovative... but because Kurtzman and Orci are lousy writers and have zero feel for Roddenberry's universe, even when attempting to reboot it."
The guy who claims to have seen footage was a bit nicer. Here's a taste: "By the way when I saw the new look of the Enterprise, I just wanted to go out and buy a model kit of that or something. I'm quite sure it will get as much positive response as the Milennium Falcon did. Yes, the stuff is that detailed." Feel free to head on over to AICN to read the rest, as I don't want to spoil too much, but if you ask me it seems we'll be getting the Star Trek version of Transformers -- hardcore fans will hate it, but Abrams will gain a whole bunch of new, younger fans who may help turn this puppy into a fresh re-booted franchise for the new millennium. Star Trek XI is due out Christmas Day.
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1-05-2008 @ 11:38AM
Steffy said...
Can't wait to see it ! May wait until it hits DVD though. Not sure Spock will be enough to actually draw me into a theatre or mall. I like my mall where I shop from home http://www.mypowermall.com/Biz/Home/100462. Ya can even get some cool star trek toys there.
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1-06-2008 @ 2:24PM
eugene said...
You mean to say that This movie will be a HUGE mainstream hit both in the US and worldwide and will even be enjoyed by most fans but will have to suffer from a vocal minority who can't get past their adolescent memories and nostalgia and will spam every single post they see that even remotely has anything to do with Star Trek or JJ abrams with their non stop whinning about how much they hate the reboot and how JJ Abrams is such an evil man for daring to do something new with a franchise that's been completely run into the ground and who's last show was a parody of itself?
Is that what you mean by we'll be getting the Star Trek version of Transformers?
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1-07-2008 @ 11:00AM
Paulpaz said...
Oh, and what of the growing concern that Abrams will use Star Trek once again to put forth a message which condones the use of torture? Alias, Lost, Mission Impossible III, over and over Abrams has done this and to do so in Star Trek XI would be a violation of the principles of Star Trek itself.
http://trekkies.againsttorture.com
We want J.J. to tell everyone he will not do now what he has done over and over in the past. No justification for torture. Our society is already growing too accepting of its existence and have lost sight of not only its inhumanity, but its ineffectiveness.
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1-20-2008 @ 2:38AM
jedidethfreak said...
I personally think that the writers never read any of the books. Kirk's death has been dealt with. He still has a clone in the Nexus, because every time you leave, a copy of you stays in the Nexus. Done. We still have a James Tyberius Kirk. Do some f*****ng research.
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2-11-2008 @ 4:39AM
Albert Lowe said...
I am an old fan who like the amount of enthusiasm that Abrams seems to be garnering. I also agree that the franchise has been run into the ground by all the bad spin offs. That being said I have my concerns. What separated the original from other sci fi shows was it had likable characters that people wanted to see over and over again and not the standard cardboard characters, lame dialogue, and derivative plots surrounded by a bunch of special effects like most of the sci fi shows. JJ Ambrams treatment that people fear means younger, sexier and usually dumber.
I hope I am wrong. I have nothing against JJ Abrams taking it in a new direction or even if he tries to get a new audience. My concerns like all the 'minority' is that it won't be anything remotely to do with the original both in tone, spirit or continuity ( another thing that separated star trek from other space genre ).
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