If you only get one chance to make a good first impression, why is Paramount holding off on releasing the official trailer for its highly-anticipated STAR TREK re-boot until Monday at noon? (startrekmovie.com)
Or, as our favorite pointy-eared philosopher might put it. Is it not highly illogical to in essence punish those of us who didn’t contribute to QUANTUM OF SOLACE’s 70 plus million dollar opening weekend? You’d think that rather than send fans scurrying across the internet to dissect a poorly shot low quality YouTube bootleg (see video above), Paramount would be doing everything in its power to ensure that the millions of potential ticket buyers get re-introduced to STAR TREK in the most positive of ways.
Just a thought from one TV Addict who is very much rooting for J.J. Abrams’ take on this once storied franchise to live long and prosper.
Star Trek gets beamed away to May 2009
The upcoming re-tooling of Star Trek by wunderkind J.J. Abrams (I love the guy, but is it just me, or does it seem like he’s veering on overexposure and overhype?) has been officially pushed back from a December 25th, 2008, release date, to May 8th of the following year. Though officially the reason for the push is schedule re-shifting now that the writer’s strike is over, frankly it seems more likely that it was pushed because – unless you’re Lord of the Rings – Christmas time is not nearly as good of a time to make money as May (the beginning of the summer blockbuster season) is. Besides, Star Trek doesn’t really scream Christmas. An unemotional, overly rational stick-in-the-mud like Spock would just go around explaining to kids why it’s not logically possible for Santa Clause to exist, and Kirk would in the mean time try and seduce the children’s mothers.
Source: Variety
If Catholics were mad about The Golden Compass, wait till they get wind of this …
What pops out at me with this bit of news is not so much the casting of Paul Bettany, but the premise of the movie Legion he’s signed on for. The basic synopsis according to Variety is as follows: “[The] Story follows what happens when God loses faith in humanity and sends his legion of angels to wipe out the human race for the second time. Mankind’s only hope lies in a group of misfits holed up in a diner in the desert who are aided by the archangel Michael (Bettany).” I’m not sure what’s crazier here. That God thinks we’re so bad that we’re better off just dead? That instead of just ending all of our existences in an instant, he’s going to call down his army of angels to painfully slaughter us all (incidentally, I am going to presume his reason for losing faith in us is because of all our warring, so then how is declaring war on us really any better?) What about the notion that somehow a few people in a diner can not only take on that army, but basically God himself? Actually, that’s the craziest part of this film: it makes God the cliché Hollywood blockbuster villain. If anyone involved in this project is Catholic, they should probably prepare to be excommunicated (does the Catholic Church still do that?)
Source: Variety
Considering STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION is one of the key reasons this TV Addict is well, addicted to TV; >I couldn’t resist posting the just released official trailer for the new STAR TREK movie, launching Christmas 2008. Fingers crossed LOSTerminds J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindeloff and Roberto Orci don’t mess this baby up. Stay Tuned…
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