Justin Lin is directing Star Trek XIII

[Notlad]

I saw either the first or second F&F movie in the theater many years ago and hated it so never watched another. I will now have to go back and watch the ones Lin directed. From what people are saying he brought a lot to the franchise. I will keep my fingers crossed that he understands ST and respects it.

 

[DWF]

I have no strong feelings other than I never was comfortable with Orci at the helm. And that when the director of the first two films leaves, the third film seems to take a nosedive (X-Men, Batman Forever, Superman III), but at the same time, often "third films" with the same director crap out too (Godfather III, Dark Knight Rises, anything by Michael Bay). So who the hell knows? I can only hope the script is better and less lazy than Into Darkness (even though I enjoyed the film on a purely visceral level) and that Lin gives us a good, fast, exciting movie with fine character moments.

Honestly, my only real issue with the last two Trek films was Kirk came off as a really immature frat boy on a kegger. Bring the humor and character to something smarter and less "ladies!!! Jim Kirk!!!," "Spock!!! That's deep SPACE!!!!!" and pranking the natives and I'll be just dandy. If they follow Kirk's maturity arc, I think I'll be satisfied.

That's a roundabout way of saying "I hope I like it. Let's see what happens."

Your complaints about Kirk in the JJ films is exactly something I really like about the films. The young Kirk was exactly the kind of person I thought he would be before maturing. A ladies man, daring, reckless, etc. Now if we were talking Captain Picard I would have expected him to have been the Captain of the Starfleet Academy debate team complete with horn rim glasses!

Picard was the reckless one getting stabbed though the heart while still a cadet, Kirk was the serious one. But then Pine's Kirk had a different childhood without his father.

 

[Makarov]

Your complaints about Kirk in the JJ films is exactly something I really like about the films. The young Kirk was exactly the kind of person I thought he would be before maturing. A ladies man, daring, reckless, etc. Now if we were talking Captain Picard I would have expected him to have been the Captain of the Starfleet Academy debate team complete with horn rim glasses!

Pfft Picard's entire backstory is built around getting stabbed in a fight and trying to resist the advances of scores of women I would like to see the JJ abrams interpretation of a young Picard. edit: DWF beat me to it

 

[Christopher]

He's the director, his job is to help tell the story to the audience. However, he isn't the one coming up with the story.

You're thinking of how it works in TV. In feature films, by contrast, the director is very much the one in charge of the storytelling. Writers in the feature industry are seen as nothing more than hired contractors who are brought in to take the director's (or sometimes the producer's) ideas and convert them into script form. If the director doesn't like the result, the writers either rework it until the director is satisfied or are let go in favor of new writers. And the director is free to keep reworking the script during filming and editing, to the point that the finished film may bear little resemblance to what the credited screenwriters wrote.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Lin is the perfect choice! Now, we can all rest assured that there will likely be a STAR TREK 4, for sure. I'm really looking foreward to this installment, now ...

 

[The Wormhole]

Never heard of the guy. But based on what I've learned in this thread, that he's directed Fast and Furious movies (including the one which pwned STID) I'm okay with that. Yes, it likely means we're just going to get mindless dumb action, but it'll be a movie which won't pretend to be otherwise. There'll be no pretentious attempts at a message which just comes off as heavy-handed lip-service.

 

[Khan 2.0]

hes certainly the most successful director box office wise ever to helm a Trek movie (unless RWise was I dunno)

 

[CorporalCaptain]

So, yeah. This film is on!

 

[Cyke101]

James T. Kirk

IS

2 Bold 2 Go

Hah, good one!

Kahn blood? that's the kind of nonsense I expect from a film for toddlers not Trek.

Not to derail the thread but you should go do some googling and read about current blood stem cell research & what scientists hope to achieve in the years to come.
You might find that Khan's so called magic blood is an infinitely more plausible technology to achieve than transporters or warp drive, to name just a couple.

To add, augment biology and manipulation isn't exactly a new concept since Enterprise tackled augment physiology and genetic engineering back in 2005. Since STID is set nearly 100 years later, technology and understanding of blood and stem cells are bound to improve.

(with that said, I thought magic blood resurrecting Kirk was silly too, but at least there's precedence for using augment biology, so my problem with it is more about story than "science".)

Lin is the perfect choice! Now, we can all rest assured that there will likely be a STAR TREK 4, for sure. I'm really looking foreward to this installment, now ...

Even if it doesn't lead to a 4th movie because of a trilogy contract or something like that, the Abrams era can still end on a high note, and I'm confident that could happen.

 

[Greg Cox]

hes certainly the most successful director box office wise ever to helm a Trek movie (unless RWise was I dunno)

I think Robert Wise probably wins. "The Sound of Music," "West Side Story," "The Andromeda Strain," "The Day the Earth Stood Still," etc.

Wise was also the only Oscar-winning movie director to date.

(Wise won the "Best Director" Oscar twice--for The Sound of Music and West Side Story.)

 

[Tosk]

As long as Orci and his two boys turn in a good script, we might get a reasonable Trek 13.

"...As long as Orci and his two boys turn in a good script..." Ah, shit.

 

[Nerys Myk]

James T. Kirk

IS

2 Bold 2 Go

Hah, good one!

Not to derail the thread but you should go do some googling and read about current blood stem cell research & what scientists hope to achieve in the years to come.
You might find that Khan's so called magic blood is an infinitely more plausible technology to achieve than transporters or warp drive, to name just a couple.

To add, augment biology and manipulation isn't exactly a new concept since Enterprise tackled augment physiology and genetic engineering back in 2005. Since STID is set nearly 100 years later, technology and understanding of blood and stem cells are bound to improve.

(with that said, I thought magic blood resurrecting Kirk was silly too, but at least there's precedence for using augment biology, so my problem with it is more about story than "science".)

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We know from Space Seed that Augments have remarkable recuperative abilities. Khan goes from on the verge of death to healthy enough to attack McCoy very quickly.

MCCOY: Heartbeat now thirty, dropping fast. It's a heart flutter. He's dying.
MARLA: Do something, Captain.
KIRK: Can we?
SCOTT: It'd take an hour to figure it out.
KIRK: What happens if we get him out of there?
MCCOY: He'll die in seconds if we don't.

KIRK: Bones?
MCCOY: He'll live.
KIRK: My compliments.
MCCOY: No, I'm good, but not that good. There's something inside this man that refuses to accept death. Look at that. Even as he is now, his heart valve action has twice the power of yours and mine. Lung efficiency is fifty percent better.

(In the ward, Khan wakes, gets out of bed and does some stretches. He hears McCoy's voice.)
MCCOY: Sickbay to lab. Anything new on those bios?
LAB TECH [OC]: They all came out fine, Doctor.
MCCOY: Good. McCoy out.
(Khan sees a display of old medical instruments on the wall, takes a scalpel, and is back in bed when McCoy walks in to check on him. As the good doctor leans over, Khan grabs him by the throat and holds the blade to his neck.)
MCCOY: Well, either choke me or cut my throat. Make up your mind.

 

[fireproof78]

Make a legitimate and compelling argument, and maybe I'll take you seriously.

what wasn't legitimate about what I said before?

Just the same non-sense that gets shot down over and over.

They have hired a guy who is used to working with both an ensemble cast and technically heavy shoots.

To me this is an incredible hire. I can't think of anyone that I'd rather have taking on the third film. Including Abrams and Orci.

When I heard Lin was on the short list, I figured he would be the one. I'm happy to hear him taking this project on and am excited to see the results. He is clearly a man who knows his way around the business, works with practical effects, and ensemble cast (the F&F cast gets bigger every movie).

I'm still going to see it

 

[Kruezerman]

I've never seen any of the FaF movies, much less Community, so I'm keeping it a bit skeptical as of now.

 

[Leto_II]

much less Community

...Y'all need to correct that shit STAT, son.

 

[BigJake]

My estimation of NuTrek has largely been that it's "The Fast and the Furious In Space," so this is extraordinarily fitting.

For whoever asked about Lin's credentials for doing anything other than mindless action: he directed the amazing Better Luck Tomorrow. He seems since to have left that kind of filmmaking behind him.

 

[xavier]

extremely and painfully disappointed and not to mention SCARED.

I wish it had been the director of planet of the apes.


once again. Trek has finished second to star wars. star wars gets the big guns critically acclaimed director like JJ abrams and trek gets a nobody. its not fair.

I have lost most of the hope. I am expecting the worst now. if I wake in the next 2 years and see trek 3 with a ROTTEN SCORE on RT and opening at the number 2 spot at the box office, I wont be sad because I would have prepared for it.

extremely disappointed.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

The Fast & the Furious guy?

Big NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Granted, Chris Pine looks a bit like Paul Walker, but still...

Can't we have Rian Johnson, and Lin is directing Episode VIII and Episode IX instead? Swap them please.

 

[SalvorHardin]

once again. Trek has finished second to star wars. star wars gets the big guns critically acclaimed director like JJ abrams

Umm, Trek had Abrams first...twice. Star Wars is getting our sloppy thirds.

and trek gets a nobody.

Director of one of Hollywood's most succesful franchises. And his last 3 F&F movies made about 1.7 billion worldwide.

 

[F. King Daniel]

extremely and painfully disappointed and not to mention SCARED.

I wish it had been the director of planet of the apes.


once again. Trek has finished second to star wars. star wars gets the big guns critically acclaimed director like JJ abrams and trek gets a nobody. its not fair.

I have lost most of the hope. I am expecting the worst now. if I wake in the next 2 years and see trek 3 with a ROTTEN SCORE on RT and opening at the number 2 spot at the box office, I wont be sad because I would have prepared for it.

extremely disappointed.

Erm, a nobody? Justin Lin's last F&F movie made $788 million! That's more than any J.J. Abrams movie (until Star Wars VII)