Couple of brand new Star Trek pics..

Basq

Sylar (aka Zachary Quinto) as Spock
Entertainment Weekly Cover
Hulk (aka Eric Bana) as Nero
Good cast pic
USS Kelvin

MagicMarker

Ugh, they're just too pretty.

This does not bode well with me.

FionnMatthew

MagicMarker wrote: »

Ugh, they're just too pretty.

This does not bode well with me.

+1

I think they've gone for entirely the wrong class of actors for this.

Just judging by their previous work.

I could be wrong. Sure.

But Chris Pine is not exactly the aspiring thesp that Shatner was in his day. He's a teen-soap style actor who's got a bit of acting cred from more serious roles. He's not the right guy. And he looks like Ken:



I can see this being fun. I can see it being a passable Trek outing, actually, and certainly holding its own against the recent drudge of ST.

But I can't see it touching the original Trek. Perhaps that's a bad way to approach it in the first place. But rebooting it seems like asking for that.

Vokes

Bana pic aint working for me.



Karl Urban looks odd amongst the rest of the crew. He appears to ba a good 10yrs older than the rest of them (and prob the actor is too) - is that consistant with his character?

Karl Hungus

You know, apart from Chris Pine, I think it's a pretty good cast. I really like Simon Pegg as Scotty, and judging by his facial expression, he's more like the TOS Scotty, rather than the more comic-relief character that Scotty became in the films. Karl Urban really looks the part of McCoy as well. Anton Yelchin is a very talented actor, so he should be great. Not sure of John Cho though.

Karl Hungus

SofaK wrote: »

Karl Urban looks odd amongst the rest of the crew. He appears to ba a good 10yrs older than the rest of them (and prob the actor is too) - is that consistant with his character?

Very consistant. DeForest Kelley was 11 years older than both Shatner and Nimoy.

johnny_ultimate

Strange seeing recognisable faces as the "new" crew. Wouldn't be a big Trek fan by any means (watch the occasional episode of the original for some cheesy fun every so often) but it is very weird seeing Simon Pegg in these photos. Perhaps unknowns would have been to way to go? Just can't help but think "Oh look there's Sylar and Harold (but not Kumar!)", whereas when you see Shatner or Steward they have created icons (even though they have gone on to do good work too) who they are instantly associated with. Is going with actors who are already instantly recognisable to a large amount of the target market going to be a tough sell?

Again, not a Trekkie, but for recasting such icons I really think fresh blood may have been an interesting way to go.

Basq

SofaK wrote: »

Bana pic aint working for me.

JoBlo may have disabled direct linking to it... here's the story containing the image: http://www.joblo.com/excl-star-trek-pic

Basq

And another two:

Chris Pine as Captain Kirk, Karl Urban as McCoy and Zachary Quinto as Spock
Kirk on Ice

MagicMarker

That's a bit better, nice set!

But having someone who looks no more than 18 years old captain a starfleet ship? Just doesn't look 'right'.

pixelburp

Why are they running around the inside of an iPod? The bridge set looks weird & not entirely convinced by it. Am not a Trek fan by any stretch but I like the cast - Quino's the spit of Leonard Nimoy & Karl Urban looks quite good as McCoy.

gandalf

Sylar in space I like it !!!

Ugh, I don't like the look of Kirk whatsoever. He's too much of a Ken doll! Spock just doesn't look .. right. But I'm still hoping for this to be a good movie.

ryoishin

Normally when your man places sylar hes very emotion driven with alot of facial expressions. I wonder how he will play spock.

User45701

Deleted User wrote: »

Ugh, I don't like the look of Kirk whatsoever. He's too much of a Ken doll! Spock just doesn't look .. right. But I'm still hoping for this to be a good movie.

I think sylar looks the part but i agree about kirk.

so how long left 6 months?

when star wars episode 3 got leaked i didnt download it i waited for the cinema release and im not a big star wars fan infac tthey reallyed ****ed up that movie from the very very old/orginal script/story draft.

I consider myself a much bigger trekie then sw fan and i see myself downloading this movie if it gets leaked in the next month or two (it was orginally scheduled for a xmas 08 release and pushed it back because they believed it would bring in more money as a summer blockbuster so **** that)

If its leaked i dont care enough to wait for it because of what i have seen so far, that in mind i wont watch no ****ty cam either.

I would have prefered a new movie/cast and not a remake but we shall see. since there is time travel involed we already know there are two possible endings

1.Ragic reset button that so many seem to hate

2.Unpredictable ending that involves Alterations to already established trek cannon/timeline allowing them to remake the franchise at any time point as they see fit.

senordingdong

I'm cautiously excited about this movie, and some of those pictures don't help.

That magazine cover picture makes them look like manequins.
And I'm really not sure about the bridge of whatever ship that's supposed to be...

aidan_walsh

Small "synopsis" according to SlashFilm:

Star Trek’s time-travel plot is set in motion when a Federation starship, the USS Kelvin, is attacked by a vicious Romulan (Eric Bana) desperately seeking one of the film’s heroes. From there, the film then brings Kirk and Spock center stage and tracks the origins of their friendship and how they became officers aboard the Enterprise. In fact, the movie shows how the whole original series crew came together: McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoë Saldana), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Sulu (John Cho), and Chekov (Anton Yelchin). The adventure stretches from Earth to Vulcan, and yes, it does find a way to have Nimoy appearing in scenes with at least one of the actors on our cover — and maybe both. The storytelling is newbie-friendly, but it slyly assimilates a wide range of Trek arcana, from doomed Captain Pike (Bruce Greenwood) to Sulu’s swordsmanship to classic lines like, ”I have been, and always shall be, your friend.” More ambitiously, the movie subversively plays with Trek lore — and those who know it. The opening sequence, for example, is an emotionally wrenching passage that culminates with a mythic climax sure to leave zealots howling ”Heresy!” But revisionism anxiety is the point. ”The movie,” Lindelof says, ”is about the act of changing what you know.”

syklops

Here is what I wrote in an other forum:

syklops wrote: »

I cant believe they are doing an original trek movie with out any of the original charachters. I cant see this going well. This is not James Bond where Bond has no defined face. After more that four movies people latch onto a specific actor 'being' the charachter.

Harrison ford IS indiana jones(except for indiana jones chronicles which was well done)
Daniel Radcliff IS Harry Potter.
William Shatner IS James Kirk.

No specific actor is Batman because it changed often enough that no-one got attached enough to any-one actor. You cant show an audience the same cast for 30-odd years, and then show them the same charachters with completely different actors, and assume people will get it. It would be like a new season of Frasier, where frasier is played by someone other than Kelsey Grammer.

Could they seriously not come up with another story line? They tried going back in time with Enterprise, and while initially it was good, it didn't work, because you can't tell the audience that Klingon's are a strange race whom we dont trust, because, we already know about them, and for the hardcore trek fans, we understand the klingons, and for the Uber-hardcore that speak klingon, introducing them as enemies again is just daft. So they invent the zindi, a race we have never heard of, and they have some adventures with them, and we never hear of them again, but who cared?

Is another next-gen movie completely out of the question? What about DS9? I wont mention that abomination which is Voyager. But surely, there is something they can spend a couple of million on, other than the original series, and the original crew, but without the original actors.

Anyone agree with me?

DirkVoodoo

Been watching the double-bill episodes of DS9 on digital (virgin or bravo i think). A movie in the dominion war era would have been perfect, could have brought in a lot of the terrorism/war issues we see today, but alas that show ran its course and they pretty much wrapped up all the character arcs in the last episode.

I am also in the "quietly optimistic" camp. None of the next gen movies captured the feel of the original ones for me (well, except first contact, which is the only one i will watch). I am glad they are going down this route of something new and bold rather than the "extra length episode with popcorn for the fanboys". A voyager movie would have been absolutely woeful.

Hopefully by trying to be a more mainstream movie, we can escape the inbred television studio grip that the likes or Rick Berman and co have had on the recent trek movies (holding them back in my opinion)

bnt

syklops wrote: »

Here is what I wrote in an other forum:
...
Anyone agree with me?

No. Why must there be only one "correct" version of Star Trek? None of the actors involved in TOS or TNG took it as seriously as you are taking it, and are quite happy to let a new generation take over. If Voyager was an abomination, it was an abomination that ran for seven series and IMHO did a good job of looking at the Federation Galaxy from the other side, so to speak. Mr. Shatner said it best... :pac:

lostexpectation

shatner was a pretty boy in his day

L31mr0d

syklops wrote: »

Anyone agree with me?

To an extent. I agree that they didn't have to use the original characters. I would of preferred that they'd of introduced a completely new group of characters, fresh out of the academy.

I feel this movie is going to fall into a very cheesy, knock off/piss take of the original series, with Quinto and Pine becoming caricatures of their future selves and with Pegg blurting out "ach dunno capin, we don't have the power" for comedic effect.

Pine as Kirk was an abysmal decision, and shows signs that this is not going to be a movie to be taken seriously. I have a feeling instead of naming this movie "Star Trek" they should of just named it "Sci-Fi Movie" and lowered everyone's expectations.

aidan_walsh

Play first, then check out the new Enterprise.

faceman

I cant take in Pine as Kirk. He lacks any charisma that Shatner had which elevated his status above just another pretty boy.

Im not too ambitious about this project!

aidan_walsh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQyjrRgE4c

faceman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EradGWJNsl4

This one slightly better quality. Jaysus the opening bit with the kid is cheesy as fcuk!

speedboatchase

Having never watched a full espisode of Star Trek in my life, I can say that was a good trailer, and I'll probably go see, which is exactly the reaction Paramount want for this reboot. Cheesy opener sure, but Iron Mans trailers were cheesy and did it no harm. Will be a tough sell in the U.S though, May 2009 is very packed and its out the week after Wolverine

pixelburp

Haha, two things I like from this trailer
1 ) The classic "red alert" alarm sound from the original series,
2 ) Scotty's accent!