Monday, January 21, 2008

Boldly Going Where Roddenberry Has Gone Before: New Star Trek Teaser Trailer Online

Debuting in theatres in front of Cloverfield, the teaser trailer for the Star Trek prequel movie is now online.

Director J.J. Abrams talked about the teaser and a little about the movie, which features a new young cast playing Kirk, Spock and the rest of the classic Entrprise crew, in Entertainment Weekly:
The clip shows welders busy on what turns out to be the new starship Enterprise — massive and detailed, an embodiment of space-gazing idealism. Abrams wanted to underscore the fact that he's ''starting from scratch,'' he says. His movie chronicles an early adventure of the original crew, including Kirk (Smokin' Aces' Chris Pine) and Spock (Heroes' Zachary Quinto). Eric Bana plays a villain. Leonard Nimoy returns as an older version of Spock, which could corroborate spoiler reports that the movie has a time-travel twist.

Not in the movie? William Shatner -- and he's not happy about it. See an article and video interview about that here. But Abrams has an explanation for that: "The only reason Mr. Shatner is not in the movie and Mr. (Leonard) Nimoy is, is that his character died on screen."

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