Chief among the points of praise for Star Trek Beyond is the installment’s obvious affection for the original Star Trek TV series. Abrams and actor Karl Urban paid tribute to the late star in new interviews ahead of the film’s premiere this week.
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Hemsworth, 32, will reprise his role as George Kirk – the father of Chris Pine’s Captain James T. Kirk – in the next movie after being killed off in the opening sequence of the first film of the rebooted film franchise in 2009.
“STAR TREK BEYOND” opens in theaters beginning July 22, 2016. These are huge Star Trek Beyond spoilers!
Slate Magazine’s Star Trek Beyond reviews are unanimously positive. I know people want to know how we feel and stuff, but if you’ve ever lost anybody prematurely in circumstances that defy explanation it’s not really an experience you can put into words.
It’s official, everyone: the rumoured curse of Star Trek films (the one which claims that every odd-numbered Trek film will be garbage) is broken.
Like its recent predecessors, “Star Trek Beyond” is mostly an assortment of effects-heavy scenes with bits of talking in between. Lead movie critic Dana Stevens praises the fine acting of the cast, including Pine, Quinto, and the late Yelchin. It won’t sink in, and my heart goes out to anybody who loses anybody suddenly or prematurely.
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Throughout Star Trek, there’ve been plenty of awesome women who’ve had strong motivations and terrific performances (Ro Laren, Kira Nerys, Dax, Janeway to name a few – Trek really does have a long lineage of putting women front and centre). Sulu, a la the script by Pegg and Jung, is apparently gay, something to which Takei has taken exception. Meanwhile, the delightful curmudgeon Shatner has found himself embroiled in a controversy surrounding – of all things – the hit Starz television show Outlander: a recent Vox article details this very convoluted history between the show’s fans, and Shatner himself. Not just as a warrior, but as a character, she brings new hope and life to this tried-and-true story – not to mention some cool new technology. The tricorder consists of three parts: A wearable that fits around your neck (and that Dr. Kohli wore to the panel) that sends your vitals to a phone app, a receptacle for blood and saliva samples, and a third piece that’s created to look like the original tricorder; capable of diagnosing diseases like asthma, COPD, and more. Abrams isn’t sure yet, especially since the next movie is in the early stages of development. The movie appears to have gone down well on social media.
