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Abrams, Orci, Kurtzman talk Fringe, optimistic Trek |
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Monday, 21 July 2008
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 Promoting Fox’s upcoming series Fringe, the producer JJ Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Robert Kurtzman (who filled the same roles in both Fringe and Star Trek (2009)), the trio revealed that the genesis of the series actually came while they were working on ST09. According to Kurtzman, they had several ideas along the lines of “Wouldn’t it be great if we could do a scene where this happened?” with within a few weeks evolved into Fringe.
As of the interview, Abrams said that the about 12% of visual effects for Star Trek were about ‘near done’ in a working cut of the film.
 It was really like the fun of watching Zachary Quinto take a role like Spock, which is an incredibly sort of deceptively complicated part. And when you see the whole performance, there were things he was doing I didn’t even see or realize he was doing when we were making the movie. And to have Chris Pine come in and embrace this role of Kirk in a way that is so complete and emotional and funny and cocky yet vulnerable, it’s a wonderful thing. |
Even though Abrams is often drawn to darker material (Alias, Mission: Impossible: III, etc), he acknowledged that the real appeal of Star Trek was it’s optimistic vision of the future:
There’s an optimism to Star Trek that is to me one of the things that was most appealing about the idea even of doing the movie, which is - while there is darkness that must be in contrast, and while there is real obstacle and an incredible villain and it’s terrifying and weird and creepy and scary and gross and all of the kind of things that you’d expect from this crazy sort of adventure, it’s also got a huge heart and a wonderful kind of family at the core of it. So while there are weird things that happen in Lost, Alias, and certainly in Fringe, something like Star Trek is ultimately, as I believe is the case with Fringe as well, a hopeful story.
There is no question that there is incredibly weird stuff that happens and people get tortured and hurt and the villains are evil and mean, but it’s part of defining who the good guys are. I think at the end of the day there are a lot of movies out there that are incredibly grim and very cynical and I don’t think that certainly Alias or Lost - and I can tell you with Fringe - these are stories that are ultimately very much about the people, totally humanistic emotional stories and good prevails. I’m always turned off by stuff that is too cynical and dark. |
Deadbolt asked, “Was it a little surreal when you were on the set [of Star Trek] for the first time?”
Orci: Insane.
Kurtzman: Yeah, it’s beyond - it’s like you’re in a dream.
Orci: Out of body.
Abrams: It was weird. |
[via: The Deadbolt]
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