Quentin Tarantino reportedly cooled on a “Star Trek” script he was pursuing with “The Revenant” screenwriter Mark L. Paramount has also explored several other avenues for “Trek” features, none of which seem to have ultimately borne fruit. Execs determined that there was still lasting audience enthusiasm for Pine, Quinto and the rest of the cast in their established roles, which allowed the studio to feel comfortable with moving forward with bringing them back. Since then, insiders say the studio has done market research to determine audience interest in the rebooted cast, given the long wait period between “Beyond” - which lost money for Paramount - and a prospective new “Trek” film. Clarkson (“Jessica Jones”) had signed up to direct a sequel that would have reunited Pine’s Kirk with his late father, played by Chris Hemsworth reprising his performance from the 2009 “Star Trek.” That film never materialized, however, after Paramount reportedly couldn’t close a deal with Pine and Hemsworth. Paramount was close to bringing back this cast once before: In 2018, S.J. The actors returned in two sequels, 2013’s “Star Trek Into Darkness,” also directed by Abrams, and 2016’s “Star Trek Beyond,” directed by Justin Lin.Ībrams is producing the new, as-yet-untitled film through Bad Robot, with Matt Shakman (“WandaVision”) directing from a screenplay by Josh Friedman (“Avatar 2”) and Cameron Squires (“WandaVision”) based on a earlier draft by Lindsey Beer (“Sierra Burgess Is a Loser”) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (“Captain Marvel”). “I was attracted to this character because she’s an alien, and she’s a completely original character in the Star Trek universe, so I don’t have to compare myself with anyone who came before me – I am Jaylah.The six actors first stepped into their respective iconic roles as Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Bones, Sulu and Scotty in 2009’s “Star Trek,” directed by Abrams, which reset the “Trek” timeline and allowed for the reboot to exist unencumbered from the hundreds of hours of “Trek” continuity that had come before. “She’s an alien warrior has more in common with Kirk than anyone else in the film they’re both very independent. Sofia Boutella‘s character Jaylah is “a survivor, and she is someone who thinks outside the box,” said Boutella. thrown into great jeopardy and have to depend on each other to survive.” “Also, for a huge part of the film, I get to spend time with Spock, which is something new. You see him being a supportive friend, a consigliere, even a psychologist in a way. My relationship with Captain Kirk is not inferred – it’s there, you see it. “There’s a lot more McCoy in this movie than probably the last two movies combined. He’s thinking to himself, ‘Now that I don’t need, what else is there?'”įans of Karl Urban and McCoy will be glad to read Urban’s comments on McCoy in Star Trek Beyond. “Now he’s an older guy, not a young man anymore…he’s a leader and his priorities and motivations have changed. And that guy is certainly still in there. There were fans that were dismayed that he had so much bravado – but there’s no place for the character to go if you don’t start somewhere. “I think it was very important, especially for the first film, to. “What I really enjoy about this part of Kirk’s arc is that he’s relieved of all the onus of trying to live up to his father and the anger of never having met his father, all the stuff that drove the first films. It’s my job to make sure that the action is appropriate, it’s organic, it’s something that can be embraced by people who like Star Trek.”Ĭhris Pine spoke about character development for Kirk. In a very short amount of time I had to make sure that they understood that I know that that’s where commerce and art collide. “So yeah, there is a lot of action, but it can’t be action for action’s sake. But at the same time, I had to find the appropriate journey for this movie. I think it could lead to something special, because he was having to be mindful of what his instincts were.” It was time to get creative and lean on his gut instincts. “So he went into independent director mode. I understand it was amicable, but money had been spent, time had been burned, and Justin was under the gun. “ had gotten far along in the process and they decided to part ways. “ Bob Orci had written a script,” he said. In these interviews, topics included the arrival of the new director, and character development.Īs fans know, Lin was a replacement and was “under the gun,” according to John Cho. The sci-fi/fastasy magazine SFX is out today, and it features interviews with Justin Lin and various Star Trek Beyond actors.
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