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He continued: “Dubai represents the future of what the frontier would be like in our film, and is an excellent place to shoot the movie as well as a special opportunity for all of us”.
Justin Lin will most likely take the film to go “where no man has ever gone before”, as a classic “Star Trek” line puts it. One which Trekkies will also agree for the most part, although there are fans who are still critical of J.J. Abrams’ reworking of “Star Trek“. “You’ve never seen me play a character like this”. “I’ve always wanted to do good work and I think all of us up here agree on that…for me there is another undercurrent in this film which is to truly honor my dear friend and carry on the legacy that he worked so hard to create”. It would be fun, but I don’t envy [Lin’s] job.
Sponsored by the Dubai Film and TV Commission (DFTC), the interns, Mohammad Ahmed Fikri and Abdulrahman Saleh Al Madani, gained filming experience with over 200 of a few of the world’s best film crew, and were given exposure to the structure and organisation of a large global film set. Starfleet Academy anyone? Or, while all the awesome officers are up in space having awesome adventures…what are the slackers of Starfleet up to? OOH!
“We tried to read the [Orci’s] scripts, we tried to get them through various means, but failed”, claimed Pegg, adding that he didn’t “really know” what they contained.
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A number of entities including the Dubai Film and TV Commission, the Dubai Media Office, Dubai Tourism and Commerce and Marketing and the Dubai worldwide Film Festival will provide all the necessary support to facilitate the filming, officials said. Or should he just stick to the writing and acting?
