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By GustavoLeao / 06:42, 16 October 2008 / Feature Films
Entertainment Weekly website just posted excerpts of their extensive article on the new Star Trek movie from the latest issue of their magazine in a 8-page article online, including a new photo of the starship U.S.S. Kelvin and an exclusive interview with director J.J. Abrams and the cast and crew. Here are few excerpts. (beware of major spoilers)
''I think a movie that shows people of various races working together and surviving hundreds of years from now is not a bad message to put out right now,'' says Abrams,
According to the article, the movie's time-travel plot is set in motion when a Federation starship, the USS Kelvin, is attacked by a vicious Romulan (Eric Bana) desperately seeking one of the film's heroes. From there, the film then brings Kirk and Spock center stage and tracks the origins of their friendship and how they became officers aboard the Enterprise. In fact, the movie shows how the whole original series crew came together: McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoë Saldana), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Sulu (John Cho), and Chekov (Anton Yelchin). The adventure stretches from Earth to Vulcan, and yes, it does find a way to have Nimoy appearing in scenes with at least one of the actors on our cover - and maybe both. The storytelling is newbie-friendly, but it slyly assimilates a wide range of Trek arcana, from doomed Captain Pike (Bruce Greenwood) to Sulu's swordsmanship to classic lines like, ''I have been, and always shall be, your friend.'' More ambitiously, the movie subversively plays with Trek lore - and those who know it. The opening sequence, for example, is an emotionally wrenching passage that culminates with a mythic climax sure to leave zealots howling ''Heresy!'' But revisionism anxiety is the point. ''The movie,'' Damon Lindelof says, ''is about the act of changing what you know.''
''I thought Spock was behind me. I had no unfulfilled wishes,'' Leonard Nimoy says. But Abrams was persuasive. ''I felt J.J. and his writers had a very strong sense of who the characters were and how they should work. To find a team that was interested in putting it all back together was very exciting.'' Trekkers will be excited too. Nimoy's first scene in the film, screened for EW, is goose-bumpingly cool.
While Nimoy will be putting on his ears to play a wizened Spock in the new Star Trek, don't expect a cameo by William Shatner as Captain Kirk. Last month, the 77-year-old actor posted a video on YouTube, complaining about being left behind, and chastising Abrams, even though Shatner's Kirk died in Star Trek Generations (1994). "I brought him back to life in one of my books, very easily," Shatner tells Abrams in the video. "I'm just sorry that I'm not in your wonderful movie."
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he opening sequence, for example, is an emotionally wrenching passage that culminates with a mythic climax sure to leave zealots howling ''Heresy!'' But revisionism anxiety is the point. ''The movie,'' Damon Lindelof says, ''is about the act of changing what you know.''
This little bit has got me excited. Can't wait to see it.
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