January 10, 2010 – 1:36 am
Startrek,
Star Trek, the television version of Star Wars for most people, have been getting lots of raves and reviews recently. This just proves that the movie is really eagerly anticipated by the public. Chris Pine, the actor who ditched White Jazz to fill in the role of James Kirk said he really wanted to evoke [...]
February 5, 2009 – 3:30 pm
Beside making a name for himself as the voice of Galvatron in the Transformers animate movie, Leonard Nimoy is really best known for his role as the half-Vulcan, half-human Spock in the original series of Star Trek, which ran from 1966-1969. Playing Captain James T. Kirk then was William Shatner.
Besides Star Trek though, Nimoy [...]
December 27, 2008 – 5:10 am
With the teaser released this month, the new movie installment to the rich and long heritage of the Starship Enterprise comes this May 2009. The cast and some of the details of the movie have been known for a while and the timing couldn’t have better for the widow of infamous Gene Roddenberry passed away [...]
There were lots of rumors concerning Matt Damon being selected to be play the role of James Kirk. It has been said that William Shatner, the actor who played Kirk in the series gave Damon his vote for the role but when Damon called up Abrams to confirm the gossips, he was denied. Abrams told [...]
The holodeck, a famous science fiction concept provides a rich source of story lines for Star Trek writers as it offers more opportunities to work, rest and play. It is an EU-funded research project which developed a commercial authentic 3D display that could be called Holodeck version 1.0 in the future. Crewmembers can walk through [...]
Last September 2007, a Star Trek fan named professor Randy Pausch who is also a professor in Carnegie Mellon University and suffers from terminal pancreatic cancer gave a lecture in front of 400 students. The lecture is part of a series designed for top lecturers to discuss the most important lessons they have learned in [...]
The actor is supposed to star in a film adaptation White Jazz but dropped out to pursue his Kirk role in Star Trek. He said he wanted to evoke Kirk’s characteristics but not totally duplicate William Shatner’s performance. Pine admitted he was inspired by Harrison Ford’s performance as Han Solo as a grumpy hero and [...]
Last February 2008, Paramount has announced that will move the film from its supposedly December 25 2009 release to May 8 2009. It is primarily because that the production staff reckoned more audiences will watch the movie on summer than winter and not because of the WGA strike. They also choose May 8 because it [...]
Ryan Church, the Transformers designer will do the design work in Star Trek film with the help of John Eaves, a Trek veteran. Carolyn Porco, an Imaging science leader will be the consultant on planetary imagery and science for the said film. The production team has established heavily enforced security around the shooting of the [...]
Star Trek, a 2009 sci-fi film that is directed by J.J. Abrams and written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci is the eleventh Star Trek film. It is a prequel to The Original Series which features characters like Kirk that will be played by Chris Pine, Spock by Zachary Quinto, Scotty by Simon Pegg, McCoy [...]
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