Simon Pegg’s screenwriting credit works wonders in Star Trek: Beyond, providing many chuckle worthy and laugh-out-loud moments that never feel out of place or intrusive, injecting a sense of fun and spectacle that should come with exploring the farthest reaches of the universe. But I had three concerns I expressed in that office that day.
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Science fiction is a marvelous vehicle for exploring political and social concerns, and Star Trek has a tradition of promoting pluralism and tolerance through its stories. In a summer top-heavy with ponderous apocalyptic superhero movies and depressing underachievers, Star Trek Beyond is a breath of fresh air-not a clever or innovative movie, but one with at least an idea in its head and the dose of optimism we all need right about now.
We’re grateful any time the narrative slows down and allows the characters to interact and discuss, but it doesn’t happen almost often enough. Sulu and his partner have a daughter in the movie.
Cho anticipated that Takei would have objected because he way a gay actor who played the role of a straight man, which must have been hard for him.
J.J. Abrams directed the first two instalments (written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman), which built and fleshed out characters and their relationships and gave a grittier feel to the franchise. “They said, ‘It’s better that you don’t see it, ‘ and we were like, ‘OK.’ I think maybe they didn’t want us to go down a similar track”. While Quinto had taken over his character officially, Nimoy had appeared in both new films as Spock Prime, and the door was left open for his return.
Pine, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban and Pegg mix up Klingon duties with other franchises such as Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Avatar, Mission Impossible and Jack Ryan. “And I’m still a huge fan of GT”. Chekov (the late, great Anton Yelchin) plots a course through the stars and BOOM!
While at the same event Chris Pine, who plays Captain James T. Kirk in the film, revealed, “I don’t really know any other way that I would have been able to deal with it (Anton’s death) without having my friends and my family around me”. I just wanted that to look convincingly intimate.
He added: ‘I have thought about it, we’re working on it, and it’s too early to talk about it’. The crew is forced to flee the Enterprise and roam a harsh, unwelcoming planet. ‘So suddenly Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone comes out and fights these guys…’ And it started to get tiring, so we started calling her ‘J-Law, ‘ and then she became Jaylah.
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“Star Trek Beyond” follows the typical big-budget formula.
