'Star Trek XI' Made For Movie Lovers

[TrekToday]

According to J.J. Abrams , Star Trek XI is being made for more than Star Trekfans.

As reported by Chron.com, Abrams explained for whom he was making Star Trek XI. "The audience we're making this movie for is people who love movies," he said, "not people who love Star Trek movies." He went on to explain that, "I'm not saying we're not honoring what's come before, (but) if we made this movie for them alone, we would be limiting our audience like crazy."

"The challenge of (Star Trek) is to take something that, despite the baggage of what came before, was imaginative and unreal and make it feel as real as possible," Abrams said in an article at Reuters.

"If there is a through-line in the stuff I've been able to work on, it is taking stories that are out there and combining them with people who are us," he added.

To read more, head to the articles located here and here.

[ancient]

BREAKING NEWS! ABRAMS IS MAKING A MOVIE!

[Lord Garth]

I'm in luck because I happen to love movies.

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Next they're gonna ask if Star Trek is for people other than fans. I wonder what the respose would be?

[James Bond]

Excellent news!

[Augustus]

How many times can we read the same thing written just a little different

[Aragorn]

Is this like one interview being spread out over the next year piece by piece?

[IJD GAF]

Do studios make movies for movie haters?

[Broccoli]

ancient wrote:

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BREAKING NEWS! ABRAMS IS MAKING A MOVIE!

Dammit...and here I was trying to be spoiler free!

[Aragorn]

IJD GAF wrote:

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Do studios make movies for movie haters?

Well there's Uwe Boll movies, but studios don't greenlight them -- just distribute them after they're made.

[Saul]

Who here acutally thought he was just making a movie for fans?

[StarMan]

TrekToday wrote:

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He went on to explain that, "I'm not saying we're not honoring what's come before, (but) if we made this movie for them alone, we would be limiting our audience like crazy."

Thank fuck for that!

[J. Allen]

^ That's what I'm saying, too. I'm glad he understands that this movie's going to have to work, or the Star Trek we know and love may be forever buried...for a while.

J.

[Harvey]

And here I was thinking JJ was just making a movie for me and a few internet buddies.

Stick a fork in this baby, it's done.

Got to love continuous PR that doesn't have any substance to it.

[Locutus of Bored]

ancient wrote:

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BREAKING NEWS! ABRAMS IS MAKING A MOVIE!

Fuck this shit! I thought it was going to be an olde timey radio drama in nine parts. Now I'm boycotting.

[Dennis]

What you really have to look out for is a producer saying "all the fans are going to love this because it's perfect for the fans" - that guy would be talking through his hat. All the fans don't love anything.

[T'Bonz]

Isn't THAT the truth!

I thought the "Kirk-Spock" fights used to be bad. Then we got several more Trek series and the fighting really began!

[Tulin]

Augustus wrote:

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How many times can we read the same thing written just a little different

That was my thought too.

It's like JJ is panicking that the fucking film is STILL a year away and feels he has to put his face in twice a week, just so we don't forget.


Bullshit.

[Dennis]

That's not at all so - the problem is that fans don't pay any attention to context.

John Cho says a lot about "Star Trek" for a few days because he's promoting another project - "Harold and Kumar" - and reporters ask him about Trek.

Same for Simon Pegg when he was promoting "Run, Fat Boy, Run."

Abrams is promoting the DVD release of "Cloverfield." He gets asked about "Star Trek." He is not "putting his face in twice a week" except in the minds of folks who don't read the context.

[zenophite]

I'm glad. personally I'm sick of the canon nazis and the whining about Abrahms. Make the movie to be fun first - after all its just a movie and tv franchise not the way to enlightenment with roddenberry as resident lama.