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It's a wrap! Principle photography on Star Trek completed |
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 27 March 2008
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 It's been 141 days since cameras started rolling Star Trek (2009), and now producer/director JJ Abrams has wrapped up principle photography for the film. It's not the longest Star Trek production (The Motion Picture comes in at 24 weeks), but the 20 week production time is quite long for most movies. The filming did end before schedule, in keeping with Scotty's famous advice about how to become a miracle worker: "It's always good to be a wee bit conservative on paper."
Now, wrapped doesn't mean that we're done. There are still second unit shots to be filmed which do not require the presense of Abrams or any of the principle cast (Pine, Quinto, Nimoy, Pegg, et al). Abrams will be headed to Japan, the home of the monster film, for the Japanese premiere of Cloverfield. Next week he will return to Hollywood and film "pick up shots," getting various angles and missed shots with some of the cast to fill in the final film.
From here, Star Trek moves into post production. We're looking at 406 days to the May 8, 2009, premiere, which is the longest post production period of any Star Trek film, and like the 141 filming days, is incredibly long for the average motion picture. The digital film will be pieced together by editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey, with mega-effects house Industrial Light and Magic providing what has been described as over a thousand computer generated effects.
Despite the nearly five month delayed premiere (pushed back from Christmas 2008), they still hope to have Star Trek completed within the original schedule.
With principle shooting done, we aren't going to see any more spy shots. The only leaks we're going to get will have to come from inside the production, and if what we've seen thus far is any indication, we won't be getting any.
Of interesting note, it was first revealed by Variety in April 2006 that JJ Abrams was in talks with Paramount Pictures to produce a new Star Trek movie. At the time, Abrams had just completed Mission: Impossible: III for Paramount and the company had publically announced its intention to let Star Trek rest for several years following the dissapointing performance of both Star Trek Nemesis and Star Trek: Enterprise. Three months later, Abrams signed a $25 million five-year contract with Paramount to produce multiple films, the first of which would be Star Trek.
[via: TrekMovie.com]
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Thanks to ST:E for the tip!
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