Star Trek: Beyond director Justin Lin told Inside Edition: “I think it’s the characters, I mean it’s a group of people from various backgrounds gong on a journey”. In the latest, “Star Trek Beyond”, he laughs. Who wouldn’t want to boldly go where no one has gone before? A sigh? A hiccup?
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“Star Trek Beyond” will be released in theaters on July 22, 2016. Oh, there is a very brief scene early on where Sulu is shown greeting and embracing his husband and young daughter. It’s all expressed with just a few arms tenderly draped across shoulders.
But shortly before the film began, producer JJ Abrams, who directed the first two Star Trek movies, led tributes to Yelchin – after he was killed in a freak auto accident last month. The (albeit brief) change of pace is immediately appreciated. The last two beefed-up “Star Trek” movies, as if overcompensating for decades of Trekkie nerd-dome, threatened to make the once brainy “Star Trek” less distinct from other mega-sized sci-fi adventures – just another clothesline of CGI set pieces strung together. There’s not much of a fresh mystery element to this story which we have become accustomed to with our Star Trek installments.
“When the music is actually tailored to what’s happening on screen, that’s when films come alive”, says the actor and co-writer of Star Trek: Beyond.
So is the Enterprise itself, when a surprise attack in an uncharted nebula brings the pride of the Federation’s starfleet crashing down in horrific shards on the highly hostile planet Altamid.
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And toward the end, a photo of the original members of the Enterprise crew – Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, et al., all in full uniform – is reverently displayed. A fancy new starbase offers a chance to at least get off the Enterprise for a while, although it’s not the most relaxing environment – the place looks like a roller coaster designed by M.C. Escher, suspended inside a giant snowglobe. Abrams seems to be pretty happy with the next STAR TREK movie, and no, he’s not talking about STAR TREK BEYOND, although, considering the reception BEYOND has received so far, I’d imagine that he’s pretty pleased about that as well. It should be a crime in deep space, as it is on Earth, to shroud such a tremendous force behind mountains of extraterrestrial makeup.
