Because George Kirk died in 2009’s Star Trek, time travel likely will be involved. Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) gets practically existential as he stalks through the USS Enterprise watching his crew go about their lives (in slow-motion!) and notes, in voiceover, that “it can be a challenge to feel grounded when even the gravity’s artificial”. This new perspective is not much in evidence here.
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Americans will need to pretend to be Australians for a change if they want to watch the new Star Trek television series on Netflix next year. “So with this film we paired up Bones (Karl Urban) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) together for a lot of scenes, so that you have these two opposing forces butting heads and finding common ground, which is both dramatic and comedic”. While the movie hasn’t even premiered, Australian actor Chris Hemsworth is supposedly reprising his character for Star Trek’s fourth installation.
CBS Studios International has sold the streaming rights to the upcoming “Star Trek” series to Netflix, which will be the show’s exclusive home in 188 countries outside of the USA and Canada.
Lin reiterates that, though he didn’t actively seek out the project, it made him realise that Star Trek was very much a part of his childhood going up – something I’m sure so many of us can definitely appreciate.
“What’s kind of timely is the fact is the villain of the piece is someone who believes there should be disunity and struggle and the idea of unity is a weakness”, Pegg told the Daily News. Here, we just get bad zero-gee acrobatics and some throw-away lines about the glory of the eternal struggle. (We think she was kidding by invoking the rival films, but who knows – President Barack Obama once mixed the two by referring to a “Jedi mind meld”).
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original “Star Trek” the week of September 9, the Hollywood Theater in Dormont will present “a Pittsburgh exclusive”: “For the Love of Spock”, a documentary begun by Leonard Nimoy just before his death and completed by his son, Adam Nimoy. It was all a big misfire – and wasn’t the reason I (or most people) like Star Trek.
Everyone is still processing the loss the best they can.
Overall, Justin Lin’s film is filled with enough genuine humour, warmth and effort to keep old sci-fi fans more than entertained.
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In a deal announced past year, CBS confirmed that a new “Trek” series is in development and will debut next January on CBS. While I was originally apprehensive of seeing Idris Elba in a role that hid his face and skin from view, the film cleverly subverts the recent disappointing trend of Hollywood covering up its black actors in a way that doesn’t diminish his identity. Being the smart-ass he is, this makes for a very fun film when characters get to interact with one another. “That was important to me and really satisfying”.
