Star Trek 3 could be shot in South Korea

[ralph]

Source: Trek Brasilis/

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said met with Hollywood producers and directors to court them to film in Seoul, and he cited the shooting of the movie “Avengers: Age of Ultron” in his city earlier this year, The Times reported. He said officials in his city are in talks with the filmmakers behind the next “Star Trek” movie to film there.
On Sunday, the Korea Times reported, Park visited Paramount Pictures studio in Los Angeles to meet Jeffrey Chernov, the producer of “Star Trek,” and Roberto Orci, the director of “Star Trek 3″ which will be screened in 2016. westsidetoday/

“Today I met with Jeffrey Chernov, producer of Star Track 3, at the Paramount Pictures Studio and agreed to film a portion of the upcoming movie in Seoul,” Park said in his Facebook post. koreaobserver/

 

[M'Sharak]

I know the one article doesn't go into detail about filming in Seoul and the other only mentions it in passing, but I'm wondering whether that means principal photography or mainly second-unit stuff. Next year's Avengers: Age of Ultron gets mentioned as an example, but Seoul is only one of a number of locations which were used for that movie.

Edit: update

Looks like most of the location shooting will be done in Vancouver (BC) and vicinity, and the indoor sets will be constructed in sound stages there.

http://trekmovie.com/2014/10/01/sta...y-in-vancouver-enterprise-sets-to-be-rebuilt/

Still to be determined: what other locations (including Seoul) might be used, and to what extent.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Vancouver? Will this mark the debut of Stargate's Canadian Forest Planet in Star Trek?

I wonder if they'll rebuild the sets exactly as they were in ST'09 and ID, or take the opportunity to make some changes? It might end up like the Klingon ship between movies III and IV and the Enterprise between the end of IV and the start of V, both of which were completely redesigned.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Source: Trek Brasilis/

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said met with Hollywood producers and directors to court them to film in Seoul, and he cited the shooting of the movie “Avengers: Age of Ultron” in his city earlier this year, The Times reported. He said officials in his city are in talks with the filmmakers behind the next “Star Trek” movie to film there.
On Sunday, the Korea Times reported, Park visited Paramount Pictures studio in Los Angeles to meet Jeffrey Chernov, the producer of “Star Trek,” and Roberto Orci, the director of “Star Trek 3″ which will be screened in 2016. westsidetoday/

“Today I met with Jeffrey Chernov, producer of Star Track 3, at the Paramount Pictures Studio and agreed to film a portion of the upcoming movie in Seoul,” Park said in his Facebook post. koreaobserver/

Amazingly interesting that this is happening, since Koreans don't even care about Star Trek anyway. I guess things are changing.

 

[M'Sharak]

Source: Trek Brasilis/

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said met with Hollywood producers and directors to court them to film in Seoul, and he cited the shooting of the movie “Avengers: Age of Ultron” in his city earlier this year, The Times reported. He said officials in his city are in talks with the filmmakers behind the next “Star Trek” movie to film there.
On Sunday, the Korea Times reported, Park visited Paramount Pictures studio in Los Angeles to meet Jeffrey Chernov, the producer of “Star Trek,” and Roberto Orci, the director of “Star Trek 3″ which will be screened in 2016. westsidetoday/

“Today I met with Jeffrey Chernov, producer of Star Track 3, at the Paramount Pictures Studio and agreed to film a portion of the upcoming movie in Seoul,” Park said in his Facebook post. koreaobserver/

Amazingly interesting that this is happening, since Koreans don't even care about Star Trek anyway. I guess things are changing.

I don't know - courting the US movie industry to come film (and spend money) in Seoul is promoting business, whether or not there's an audience for the film there. It's two different things.

Still, someone must be watching Star Trek in SK: the 2009 movie did $5,686,001 ($2,065,925 opening weekend) and Into Darkness did $11,427,281 ($3,759,686 opening). Not impressive when compared to US or UK box office, perhaps, but you could count on one hand the number of countries in the overseas market which posted higher numbers.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=startrek11.htm

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=startrek12.htm

 

[ralph]

Here in Brazil:

ST2009 - $1,907,913
STID - $5,219,023

A large part of this growth stems from the considerable increase in marketing, but unfortunately, nobody cast members or J.J. came here to promote movies.

Patrick Stewart, Robert John Downey, Jr, Hugh Jackman came to Brazil to promote their movies.

Few people know about Chris Pine or Zachary Quinto, except Zoe Saldana.

I'm gonna suggest to Orci that this is a good thing.

 

[thumbtack]

I'm gonna suggest to Orci that this is a good thing.

Promotion is always a good thing, but you have to do some cost/benefit analysis first. However, that increase for Brazil is impressive enough to guarantee some measure of additional marketing for Star Trek 3.