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AICN gets to watch some ST09 [SPOILERS] |
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 July 2008
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 (From June 26, 2008) Notoriously secretive about what’s actually going on with Star Trek (2009), JJ Abrams recently opened up a bit to Ain’t It Cool News’ Harry Knowles, showing him three [unfinished] clips from the film. This small screening even has come in advance of any Paramount executives seeing the film, so be warned, there be spoilers after the break.
So, the three clips he saw?
1. Sarek (played by Ben Cross) and Amanda Grayson (Winona Ryder) holding a baby Spock on Vulcan. No visual effects had been done yet for this shot, Knowles said, “so the lighting wasn’t right, the sky wasn’t right and there were no angry volcano type things or structures in the background, but [Abrams] assured me... it’ll all look very Vulcan when it is done.”
2. Visual effects pass of a pre-TOS ship, presumably the Kelvin:
 The shot began on a small part of the ship, then craned back and over to reveal the ship coming into a larger shot of the ship seemingly orbiting a really angry sun. The shot was absolutely dynamic as the star was seemingly raging – and we cut to the interior of the ship - it was very shadowy and very much like that of an old diesel submarine - JJ told me that the look was an evolving look for Starfleet - so that you could get a sense of the passage of decades here. Once again though - I didn’t see the end of the scene or really get a sense for what was going on.
I really like the dynamics and tone of this space shot - very much not like something I’d seen before - although it was Star Trek, because the ship was a saucer, with a nacelle above and below the saucer. It just felt aggressive and frankly... badass.
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3. A Starfleet Academy-esque scene of cadets in a hanger loading onto crew transport shuttles.
It feels as though some intergalactic Pearl Harbor has happened and all the cadets are anxious to get underway. You’d see cadets running to meet their shuttles – and as shuttles filled up, they took off to take their crews to their respective starships. They hold on the long shot – we hear Leonard McCoy being assigned to the Enterprise – You catch Uhura being assigned to a place… not the Enterprise. You see Chris Pine as Kirk demanding to know why his name wasn’t called out – apparently Kirk is in trouble. You remember that Kobayashi Maru thing he got a commendation for creative thinking for? Well, he isn’t smiling about it here. It seems his entire future career in Starfleet is in jeopardy – and he might miss out on whatever is going on.
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But then there’s McCoy – when you see McCoy... you’ll realize how metaphysically perfect Karl Urban was for the casting of the character. He’s got that right cantankerous, best buddy, ethical, but anything for his friend type of doc attitude - and he has it down pat. He’s helping Jim to get onto a ship, but in a million years I wouldn’t spoil that. It’s funny, without being ridiculous. And it begins to exhibit the early kernels of a classic Bones/Kirk interaction. Best friends with a history – and perhaps this moment is a key moment of that history. The favor that launched a career? Perhaps that is what I saw.
We see Uhura confront Spock regarding her assignment to NOT the Enterprise. Zoe Saldana doesn’t look like the Uhura we knew - she looks young and hungry, confident and determined. And Spock... perfect.
It all ended with characters arriving on the bridge, under the command of Captain Pike. Sulu was at the helm - and the bridge. And the uniforms... classic Trek. Nice. Then for the first time in the history of Star Trek, it looked amazingly functional. It echoes that classic Trek look – but imagine if you handed that design to the folks at Apple and said... Make it really work. I instantly believed in the functionality of everything. That’s hard to quantify, but it is true. Remember when you saw the war room underground on Hoth in [Star Wars: The] Empire Strikes Back? How it just felt functional - that’s what this looked. And it looked Star Trek, without looking as cheap as Star Trek. It was a tech-fetishists wet dream. |
[via: AICN]
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