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Star Trek Movie Blooper Reel

Here's some of the blooper reel from the Star Trek movie. It's really funny. This will be on the upcoming DVD release of the film. Do wait around until you hear Zachary Quinto's inappropriate Irish accent. Take a look:

Posted on October 12, 2009
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The Onion Takes Aim at Star Trek

The Onion pokes a bit of fun at hard core Star Trek fans with its report on J.J. Abrams' reboot of the series, which opens with screenings tonight. Take a look:

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

Posted on May 7, 2009
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Cast Reveals Whether They Are Star Trek Fans

During press interviews the cast and director of Star Trek were asked if they were Star Trek fans before they signed on to do the movie. Only John Cho and Karl Urban give appropriate answers. The rest are horrifying. Also, J.J. Abrams explains the whole William Shatner debacle. Take a look:

Posted on April 29, 2009
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J.J. Abrams Promises Fringe Fans Giant Slugs

J.J. Abrams has promised Fringe fans that giant slugs will be coming soon.

"I think that now more than ever, the show has really found its voice," Abrams said in a group interview Wednesday in Hollywood, Calif. "The episodes that are airing starting next week are the ones that for me are far and away the best episodes and what the show is. I feel like Fringe is a show about these crazy experiments, but in many ways Fringe is an experiment. I feel like we just found a way that the show works best. Those episodes are coming up next."

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"There's a great resolution that's coming out in a few episodes, but it takes a lot of loose ends and gives closure to those," Abrams said. "Any show that is working will tell stories, resolve them; other stories will begin, and it'll just kind of be this staggered thing. That's where we are. So I really love the episode, and he's fantastic in it. If you're watching the show, it explains who he was, why he was doing what he did, why she's been seeing him."

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In the near future, Abrams is excited about the "slug gigantism" episode. "Wait until you see this next episode," he said. "If you're a fan of gigantic slugs, don't miss Fringe. That really should be the billboard."

Fringe returns Tuesday, January 20th at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.

Posted on January 15, 2009
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Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto Talk Star Trek

TV Guide talked to some of the stars of J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek movie. In the clip Abrams says the film is "made for people who may know the series but it's really made for future fans of Star Trek not existing ones." Those comments by Abrams have been quoted in the media before. They really aren't going to placate Star Trek fans angered by what they saw in the Star Trek movie trailer. Actress Zoe Saldana - who plays Uhura - is someone who is very fired up by the trailer. She hadn't seen what it would look like until she saw the trailer as most of it was shot in front of a green screen. She was thrilled by what she saw. Take a look:

Posted on December 16, 2008
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New Star Trek Trailer is Here

The new trailer for Star Trek is out and it's intense. Some fans are furious at the changes to canon, such as Kirk being a daredevil in his youth whereas in the original series Kirk said he was "positively grim" when he was at the Academy: he was a real bookworm. Uhura takes off her shirt. Spock tries to kill Kirk, etc etc. We have seen every episode of every Star Trek show made and have seen all the movies. We say: wait and see. We'll not pass judgment until we see the finished product. That hits theaters in May, 2009. Here's the trailer:

Posted on November 20, 2008
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Shatner Talks About Abrams, Star Trek

William Shatner responds to J.J. Abrams' statements about why Shatner is not involved in the new Star Trek movie. Bill leaves open the possibility that he would be happy to be involved in any sequel to the film, so that's certainly interesting. Take a look:

Posted on September 19, 2008
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Abrams Talks Shatner, Star Trek

J.J. Abrams reveals the real reason that William Shatner doesn't have a role in the new Star Trek movie.

Q: How do you react to William Shatner's ire at not having a role in the movie?

A: It was very tricky. We actually had written a scene with him in it that was a flashback kind of thing, but the truth is, it didn't quite feel right. The bigger thing was that he was very vocal that he didn't want to do a cameo. We tried desperately to put him in the movie, but he was making it very clear that he wanted the movie to focus on him significantly, which, frankly, he deserves. The truth is, the story that we were telling required a certain adherence to the Trek canon and consistency of storytelling. It's funny -- a lot of the people who were proclaiming that he must be in this movie were the same people saying it must adhere to canon. Well, his character died on screen. Maybe a smarter group of filmmakers could have figured out how to resolve that.

Abrams is being very diplomatic, but it sounds like Shatner's ego got the best of him. It wouldn't be the first time.

Posted on September 10, 2008
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Fringe Will Start Off Jumping the Shark

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Wired has an article about Fringe, the new show from J.J. Abrams. Abrams says Fringe won't be like Lost and that it will jump the shark right from the start.

On Fringe's slam-bang setup: "When we did the pilot for Lost, we had the monster appear at the end of the first act because we wanted to say to the audience, 'We're jumping the shark now. We're not going to wait. We're doing crazy shit from the beginning.' On Fringe, we very consciously made what is in many ways a preposterous, front-end scientific story choice in order to say to the audience, 'This is what you're going to be getting on the show.' It may be more extreme in some episodes, less so in others."

On the Fringe mythology: "I'm drawn to overarching, long-term stories so there will still be a mythology through the evolution of characters and revelations about what 'the pattern' means. But we're writing the show so it is not as serialized as Lost.

"What made X-Files so great is that they'd do a number of shows that have nothing to do with the mythology. Fringe is closer to E.R. almost, where you have these ongoing relationships and story lines, and yet week to week, when the door bursts open, you're faced with the insane urgent situation of the week."

Science fact, not fiction: "Though you could say it's science fiction, the weird thing about Fringe is that a lot of the stuff is at least in the realm of possibility. It's not sci-fi -- it's just sci.

The show debuts on Fox next Tuesday, September 9th. We will be watching. You can see the Fringe website here. A few other articles about Fringe can be found here, here, here, here and here.

Here's a video with J.J. Abrams discussing Fringe

Posted on September 4, 2008
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JJ Abrams to Produce Disaster Flick

Earthquake Logo 1974

The BBC reports that Alias and Lost creator JJ Abrams has signed on to produce a disaster movie.

Director JJ Abrams is to produce a new disaster film centred around an earthquake, it has been confirmed.

Film company Universal has not released many details about the as-yet-untitled movie, except to confirm that relationships will be the focal point.

Abrams' last project, Cloverfield, created a media frenzy because all the details were kept secret until the movie hit cinemas.

A disaster film focused on relationships? The one thing we do now about Abrams is his love for the mystery box. If it's an earthquake disaster movie technically you sort of know what the big mystery is going in - that there is going to be a terrible earthquake. It will be interesting to see how Abrams does this and whether he has another secretive Cloverfield-like suprise in store. The lack of details are making us very curious. The BBC says Universal has downplayed rumors the film will be a remake of the 1974 hit Earthquake that starred Charlton Heston. The Hollywood Reporter says Omen screenwriter David Seltzer will write the screenplay for this new earthquake movie.

Posted on August 14, 2008
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J.J. Abrams Hires NASA Scientist to Advise on Star Trek Movie

J.J. Abrams is going for the real in the new Star Trek movie: he's hired a real NASA scientist to advise him on the production.

The out-of-this world visuals in the new "Star Trek" movie will actually be based on science from our solar system. A NASA planetary scientist has joined the film's production team to ensure the scientific accuracy of the movie's astronomical scenes. As the leader of the Imaging Science team on NASA'S Cassini mission at Saturn, Carolyn Porco has guided a crew of scientists and engineers responsible for illustrating the mission's results.

Porco now will also work on the new Paramount Pictures film as a consultant on planetary science and imagery. "This is a fabulous opportunity to bring to a wider audience the discoveries we've made at Saturn, and the spectacular sights we have seen there," Porco said. "And what better way to do that than to make use of those discoveries in the crafting of imagery for one of the most popular movie franchises of all time." Porco was invited to join the Star Trek Team by the movie's director and producer, J.J. Abrams.

"Carolyn and her team have produced images that are simply stunning," Abrams said. "I'm thrilled that she will help guide our production in creating an authentic vision of space, one that immerses our audience in a visual experience as awe-inspiring as what Carolyn's cameras have captured."

Carolyn Porco directs the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. You can see some great Cassini photos of Saturn, it's rings and its moons here.

Posted on February 12, 2008
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J.J. Abrams: More Star Trek Scoop

J.J. Abrams and the cast answered fans' questions over at Trekmovie.com. They give some great information about the new film. Here's a snippet.

RoobyDoo: Mr. Abrams, how important is humour in your vision of Star Trek? And what kind of humour do you enjoy most?

JJ Abrams: I'm afraid to answer this question, because The Haters will think that I'm looking at Trek as a comedy. I am not. But humor is hugely important. Humor and humanity go hand-in-hand -- there is such wit in the screenplay (kudos, Kurtzman/Orci), and the actors bring such intelligence and humor, that my job is just to keep the thing REAL. Dramatic as hell, but also LAUGHS. Without comedy (my fave TOS eps had GREAT wit), the audience finds their own places to laugh. And in a world of humans and aliens, that could be disastrous. So the short answer? It's very important.

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Michael (the real one in Texas, by way of Afghanistan): I am a big fan of yours, but also of your friend and so called good luck charm, Greg Grunberg. Can you tell us if he will make an appearance, and if so perhaps a hint as to his part ????

JJ Abrams: I am so pissed at Grunberg. The guy was about to be in the movie -- had a GREAT PART -- but had to bow out because of some LAME OTHER MOVIE HE'S DOING. All right, so I'm half-kidding and just disappointed: Grunny WAS gonna be in Trek, and he IS doing another movie, so he can't be in ours -- but his movie isn't lame, it's funny, and he's producing and co-writing and long-time collaborator Larry Trilling is writing with him and directing, so I wish them all the best. Even though I hate Greg now. Who knows, maybe he'll be a tribble.

Greg Gunberg would make a really big tribble. Serves him right for doing a movie other than Star Trek.

Posted on January 28, 2008
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Cloverfield is Almost Here

Screenshot from Cloverfield

Cloverfield arrives in theaters on January 18th and we'll find out if all the viral marketing hype was true or just...hype. Harry Knowles has seen it and just about passed out from the excitement of it all. He loved it and now worships at the altar of J.J. Abrams.

The movie is f***ing brilliant. It's what we were told it was going to be. An intimate perspective on an impossibly grand scale human disaster beyond most human levels of comprehension.

What is the monster? How do you describe something that doesn't look like anything you've ever seen before? It's not a f***ing upright walking whale. It doesn't look like any iteration of GODZILLA that we've ever seen. It is enormous. And even though I've seen it... I am hard-pressed to come up with a comparative creation. You know that big f***ing thing in THE MIST? It isn't that. Is the creature a biped? I'm not sure, I think it might've been a four-legged beastie... it has a tail, it has teeth and freaky eyes like that horse that died in ANIMAL HOUSE. It's kinda of a grayish-yellowish-off-white looking thing. But more important than the creature is what this f***er does. He basically goes bug-nuts.

The creature isn't the groundbreaking thing about the film. It is, but it isn't. You see, what has me so excited about this film is that this is the giant monster movie that isn't at all like any giant monster movie we've seen before... but is exactly that movie.

I guarantee you that as this movie takes place... all the shit that you've seen in Giant monster movies is happening. Somewhere a general is screaming about nuking New York.... Somewhere is a politician screaming that you can't nuke New York. Another General wants to know why our weapons are not affecting this thing. A PRESIDENT wants to know where it came from -- and several thousand journalist are trying to figure all that out too.

But this film isn't about the scientist, the generals, the Presidents, the mayors or any of the big people. This time, the film is from the perspective of those people that live in those buildings that the monster is breaking through. This is about the people running in the street that scream, "GODZILLA!!!" and run. This is about trying to survive that insanity. Not just that, but to try and save one life.

Like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, but instead of Nazis it's a giant monster.

Yikes. We generally hate the whole "found footage" thing and the Blair Witch-style handheld camera thing too. But for J.J., we'll suck it up and see Cloverfield for ourselves.

Posted on January 12, 2008
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J.J. Abrams Fringe Bought by Fox

Fox has snapped up J.J. Abrams' new series called Fringe, which sound like a very interesting project.

After a heated bidding, Fox landed the sci-fi spec by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci with a big series commitment. No one would comment on the terms of the deal, but sources said it includes a budget for the two-hour pilot for about $10 million -- the ballpark of Abrams' two-hour pilot for "Lost" -- as well as an episode license fee close to $2 million. The pact also includes a digital component mirroring the template of WBTV's groundbreaking recent agreement with ABC.

"Fringe," which Abrams' Bad Robot is producing with Warner Bros. TV, centers on a young female FBI agent who, forced to confront the spread of powerful and unexplained phenomena, must work with an institutionalized scientist whose life's work may be at the center of the coming storm. "Science is frightening and enlightening at the same time," Orci said. "It can give you everything, and it can destroy you." The industry circles have been buzzing all summer about the top-secret spec script that Abrams was writing with Kurtzman and Orci. It marked the first TV writing duties for Abrams in more than three years, since ABC's "Lost," as well as the return to television of Kurtzman and Orci, one of the hottest feature writing teams at the moment. Like everybody else, Fox's entertainment chairman Peter Liguori and president Kevin Reilly were tracking the project, and even by the very vague logline floating around, felt it was "bull's-eye for Fox."

WBTV sent out the script to the networks Monday night. By Tuesday morning, Liguori and Reilly had read it. "It was exactly what we hoped for," Reilly said. "There is a track record of this type of show working on Fox, and these creators have proven themselves with this type of material." Fox has been trying for years to develop a successor to its hit sci-fi drama "The X-Files."

The brilliant scientist is described as a mix of Albert Einstein and Dr. Frankenstein. The female FBI agent must work with him (which is not easy) and his son (who doesn't get along with him at all). It sounds like a cross between NUMB3RS, The X-Files and Heroes. Works for us. If it sticks to its normal way of doing business, Fox will order up a full season, air the season completely out of order then cancel it after six episodes or so. Firefly, anyone?

Posted on October 6, 2007
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