Director J.J. Abrams has revealed that Anton Yelchin will not be replaced in the Star Trek franchise.
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“I don’t know how he would come back unless we went into this other reality and we did a timeline and reality jump”, Abrams said, although jumping to other realities and time lines is nothing new in this series.
The 13th in the series beginning with Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1980) the film contains all the requisite action and visual effect sequences that have now become standard for multiplex blockbusters. Star Trek Beyond marked the third film appearance for Anton Yelchin as Ensign Chekov.
Star Trek: Beyond, however, is well-written, paced well to keep the viewer’s attention and in the Roddenberry style, prods the viewer to do a little soul-searching as well.
Paying tribute, Abrams said: “As wonderful as this is to be here with all of you, and to be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, there is something wrong tonight”.
So one of the reasons that I’m hoping [Star Trek Beyond] does well is so that we can, without question, get that movie made. “With the films, you kind of have to hit it (quickly), and you have to be more self-contained, and it has to be memorable”.
“Star Trek”, the original series (referred to by fans as TOS) lasted three seasons on the network, during which its adventures of the starship Enterprise’s crew broke new ground in both serious speculative fiction (the occasional Tribble infestation excepted) and sociopolitical commentary on American television. “I had to do loads of research and I think afterwards I realized what ‘Star Trek” meant, and I’m really proud to be a part of it, to be honest”. Aside from some intra-crew drama, things are going well enough for Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), Mr. Spock (Zachary Quinto), Bones (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Scotty (Simon Pegg) and the rest of the crew.
Lin replicates Abrams’s breakneck energy for a couple of elaborate set pieces, but he knows the story’s real pleasures lie in its middle movement, as our isolated heroes suss out their situations and work to find their friends. I just hope that the plot won’t be too coincidential like the 2009 film.
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“The crew of the Enterprise has really fractured and split apart by Krall, the bad guy in the film”, Zachary says in the video.
