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Paramount launched it with MGM/Sony's Quantum Of Solace Friday. I've been skeptical, but this Star Trek XI trailer looks intriguing. And, most importantly, mainstream. Maybe J.J. Abrams has pulled a Chris Nolan and reimagined a stale franchise. But Star Trek has failed to ever do much internationally. Which is why JJ and studio vice chairman Rob Moore are just finishing a road show sharing 25 minutes of footage territory by territory this past week in the UK, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy, I've learned, and receiving "extraordinary" response. That has Paramount feeling optimistic about Star Trek XI's overseas prospects -- "building what has traditionally been a primarily U.S. franchise into a global one" -- which are key to the franchise's future. Hollywood knows there's just no economy of scale anymore for a big budget domestic-only hit. This coming Wednesday, the studio will unveil these 25 minutes at a screening for selected opinion-makers. A revitalized Star Trek would give Brad Grey and Rob Moore a 3rd big new franchise in addition to Transformers and G.I. Joe. No other studio can boast that right now. Will the Paramount pinheads have the last laugh?
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What the shit??!! This looks like big-time shit. Spock going after Kirk drew a laugh from me, which isnt what its supposed to do. I dont know if this will do well to garner a successful franchise. Although Mr Abrams is quite creative. So this could be a hit you never know.
Shame on you for caling GI JOE a franchise. This film will be talked about all through 2009 as an epic misfire thanks to the stellar work on Stephen (Hack) Sommers and Lorenzo (Stab Your Boss ) D’Bonaventura. Biggest bomb of 2009. Because no one overseas wants to see a US film called GI JOE.
Cars?
Gee, a Boy’s Own space movie. Let’s hope this breaks the curse of the odd-numbered “Star Trek” films.
For JJ Abrams, I’ll be first in line. It’s truly the only way I would have given this franchise another chance.
Casting choices are fresh and interesting, what’s not to root for.
Is spocks insignia on the wrong side because he is chocking kirk.. Please do nto make fun of this question. Anyone at Paramount? Can’t be a mistake- must be deliberate.
abrams casts too pretty – is this dawson’s creek star trek? meh
So Kirk was a delinquent, Spock is emotional & aggressive, Uhara can’t keep her clothes on and Scotty seems ever-so-slightly insane… but theres some original sound effects folks!
but putting the canon down for a moment, that was sure one hell of a trailer, the kid in me can’t wait…
I’m a sucker for a good trailer and that was a good one. Although, Cloverfield had a great trailer too but managed to suck on delivery.
That is weird about the insignia, it’s on the correct side when Spock is first attacking Kirk, but reversed in the closer shot. To the internets!
WOW THIS FRIGGIN’ MOVIE IS GONNA BE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FINALLY A TRUE BLUE SPACE EPIC!!YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This may be the eleventh movie the franchise has produced, but that doesn’t make it “STAR TREK XI” any more than BATMAN BEGINS was BATMAN V.
It’s STAR TREK. Period.
Abrams is the right guy to revitalize a very stale franchise, and he’d be hard pressed to do worse than the last two Trek films, two pieces of uber-dreck if there ever were.
Visually it looks just like a Michael Bay movie. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
@ tinfish
According to canon Spock struggled with his human half when he was younger.
@ Lisa
I’ll bet they probably just flipped the shot for visual symmetry when editing the trailer.
Well the film looks fun..I’m looking forward to it
Not sure about this one. I’ve never been a Trek fan and for me to get into it based on Abrams and a reinvention would take something pretty damn special. Going by the trailer, I don’t see it. I guess the danger to a guy like Abrams is having audiences tire of his M.O. To be a brilliant producer, you’ve got to adapt, evolve, improvise…and never be formulaic.
Color me skeptical. TV is a bad training ground for movies. For the Star Trek movies to be successful, they have to appeal to young and youngish men. TV (and Abrams work) is a Gay-Female ghetto.
The actors look Metrosexual, Spock is played by a well-known, typecast actor who is best known for the creepy Sylar on “Heroes.”
The point of Trek was to BE Kirk, the manly guy who broke the rules, saved the day, and got the girl. Story-wise that was all it was. It was NOT the interminable soap operas beloved of the female-gay ghetto that is TV.
Maybe Abrams gets that, maybe he can pull it off, but there is nothing in his background to suggest he has so far done so.
I love Star Trek. Bad, good, mediocre, I will watch it.
I even enjoyed the horrible graphics, but original actors provided voice of the old DOS PC games Star Trek 25th Anniversary, and the Judgment Rites. They were like additional episodes of the TOS. XI can come, I will go and see it.
The new Kirk seems like a pretty boy, but then again, wasn’t Shatner back in the day?
I thought Mission Impossible III was a fantastic action film that was hurt by Cruise’s bad press (although Cruise did a fine job) so I’m eager to see this Trek film.
It did seem a bit Michael Bay, and despite what someone above me wrote, that is not a good thing. I think The Rock is Bays only great film, but here’s hoping that Abrams and co. can make an entertaining flick.
I am looking forward to it.
Why?
Because it looks like it could be fun. I actually am looking forward to Urban’s McCoy, and Pegg’s Scotty.
I thought Mission Impossible 3 was terrible. Everything in it that was new to the franchise Abrams borrowed from his own Alias show. As for the new Trek… well, it looks to me like a halloween party. Cool Spock costume dude, you look just like Leonard Nimoy. Boring.
I don’t want to be one of those haters that goes ape over a preview…but, ummm, wow, his looks horrible.
Hard to tell much from a poor quality, dark, bootleg trailer…. I’ll wait to see it on a big screen.
Frankly I’d rather see a trailer that didn’t look like someone pirated it off the screen of the local cineplex before I make up my mind.
This DOES look horrible. It looks…embarrassingly horrible!
I’ve never been a Star Trek fan, don’t think I’ve ever even seen the show, seen a couple of the movies…but this trailer looks great to me. I’ll definitely see it.
This film will have a strong opening weekend, slowly make its money back plus a few extra bucks.
Aside from dedicated fans, interest in the new film will be determined by how popular the Abrams brand is. And quite honestly, although he’s a great storyteller, he’s hardly a spielberg or [insert big name director here.]
I doubt it will be a big blockbuster. It’s a fucking star trek film, yknow? I love ST:TNG, but star trek was NEVER cool and never will be.
Star Trek is to movies what Paul from the Wonder Years is to TV. Nerd Alert. Artistically speaking, who cares. But box office wise, I hope they didnt invest too much money into the film.
First off. If early word is true, then GI Joe is Team America without the irony. I don’t think in this day and age people want a film about terrorists. Even if they are based on a toy line.
Clearly Abrams understands that he has an uphill struggle on his hands to bring in the casual summer audience so he’s getting the film out there to make sure the message sinks in.
But at the ends of the day. Depsite all the whizz-bang effects and excitement of the trailer. The very moment that the Star Trek logo pops up at the end in that old style text format all the hard work is undone.
Trek will always be Trek. The dictionary definition of Nerd counter culture. The Starbuck swilling, MySpace visiting tweens aren’t going anywhere near this.
In trying to make this film appeal to everyone Abrams is in danger of making it appeal to no one.
john: star trek 2,3 and 4 ranked as the 6th, 9th and 5th highest grossing movies of the years they came out. you r just wrong. trek was cool and big… and easily could be again. i suspect anyone not liking that trailer which is awesome is just some geek fan of the original show too afraid of change
Nikki, you are so offbase with this one. Star Trek had (note past tense) a dedicated, obsessive fan base. These people knew every detail of their fantasy universe. Paramount screwed its biggest cash cow by letting incompentent show runners constantly reinvent canon in that universe. The fans knew TPTB didn’t give a damn about the franchise, and the ratings dropped.
The movies did well enough until the same show runners dropped decent plots for big explosions and special effects. Star Trek fans appreciated cool effects, but only as an accent, not in place of the plot.
This new trailer is horrible. It’s not going to interest many non-Trek fans, and Trek fans aren’t going to watch their universe further demolished.
This may return Star Trek to the money making days of Treks II-IV.
It may even be one of the most profitable Trek flicks to date.
A sequel, though…. that would be tough.
My wife saw this trailer with me last night while watching QOS. Now, this is a woman that HATES SciFi and Star Trek and Star Wars(partly because I watch them all the time when I’m bored), and after the preview was done she said..”Wow, I would even go see that.”
If that is the reaction from the majority of non Star Trek fans then the movie will do well. My wife’s reaction is the reaction they are hoping for and it genuinely surprised me. I think you have to see it on the big screen to get the full impact of the trailer. This bootleg copy doesn’t do it any justice.
They have pushed this turkey’s release date and hidden it from fan and tried to sell us the sizzle by hiding the steak. It’s a stinker and Abrams is just another no-talent hack retreading old material with flash and CGI instead of imagination.
They know the film is a misfire and so they go overseas to sell it to the European dumbasses to offset the losses they are going to incur over here
The decline of Hollywood will continue as long as the studios stay in the hands of corporate interests. They will continue to empower no-talent puppets and reward thievery while killing off creativity and limiting choice.
Everyone will eat shit if it’s the only thing on the menu.
“Buckle up!” Really? I hope Kirk has more personality than evidenced in the trailer.
the bootleg trailer doesn’t do it any justice at all. See the trailer on the big screen and I guarantee you will come out with a different opinion. This movie is gonna be big, people are starving for movies like this. Star Wars is dead. This one feels epic and fun and thats what counts. Not a JJ Abrams fan in the least bit. MI:III sucked hard with a truly crap storyline, but just on the visuals alone this looks like a major step in the right direction of a franchise reboot. The naysayers can gripe all they want but I I’ll tell you when the trailer ended folks in the theater clapped. Trek is coming for your ass. Watch out!
A recent commenter above says, “In trying to make this film appeal to everyone Abrams is in danger of making it appeal to no one.” That’s also an exact description of what the makers of the first (G-rated) Star Trek picture accomplished, whether they intended to or not, 30 years ago. (And Roddenberry himself produced that one.)
I’m interested to know whether the idea to make this picture was Paramount’s (if so, they should have let the title rest for a few more years) or Abrams’ (looking for a new challenge, perhaps). In any case I’ll probably go see it – after all, the great wave of relief that flashed through the audience at the premiere of the second Star trek movie in 1982 (i.e., “Now THIS is Star Trek”) could never have happened without the general disappointment with the first one, and maybe that’ll be true a few years hence as well.
meh. Trek Meets Transformers. the writing pedigree – and a script that couldn’t be touched during shooting thanks to the strike – does not bode well.
- from the writers of “Transformers,” “Hercules,” “Zorro,” “MI:3.”
*shudder*
hey Whiskey. the Gay-Female ghetto called. a box of booze and cigars and gold chains and porn and a box of XS condoms addressed to you was delivered there by mistake. you wanna swing by in your convertible and get it?
This trailer looks outstanding. This is exactly the new life and new blood Star Trek needs in order to become relevant again. J.J Abrams has just saved Star Trek.
Saw the trailer with Quantum of Solace. Like many said above, this youtube version doesn’t do it justice. The group of people and myself who went to see QOS aren’t the biggest Star Trek fans, but we all really are anxious to see this one after the trailer, and the whole theater seemed to like it too. Give it a chance, people. Just because JJ has made mistakes in the past doesn’t mean this can’t be a winner. Sounds to me like most people here are judging it solely on a dislike for JJ and a dislike for anything not Star Trek 2 – 4.
“dislike for anything not Star Trek 2 – 4″
6 was good too.
I wasn’t sure what to think when I heard about this, I mean I’m not the Biggest Star Trek fan to start with.
It’s not that I don’t like star Trek, I just never got into it that much.
This looks interesting to say the least and as it get’s closer to the out Date I’ll look into it more.
This is one of those movies that if there’s nothing big playing or I’ve already seen the Big movies I’ll probably see this Just for the Heck of it if I have the Money.
I’m not going to raise my bar at all because then I at least will get a nice ride out of it.
For me what I’m dredding is the Fact that they’re doing a remake of OLDBOY with Will Smith of all people.
I think Smith is ok I just don’t think he’s right for that part.
Plus it seems to me that Smith plays the same Character in every movie He’s made, the cocky wise cracking type that has to jump on and Kick ass.
I know this was supposed to Be about Star Trek but I had to remind you all there are worse things then a new Star Trek. LOL {I knew there was a point in there somewhere}
Maybe this film will work well for people who aren’t fans of Star Trek: The Old Show, but I found this trailer to be extremely depressing. It’s not a work of re-imagining, but of de-imagining.
There are many people in Hollywood who understand what made ST:TOS tick. Obvious examples: the people who created Galaxy Quest, Babylon 5, Iron Man and the new Battlestar Galactica. A lot of people hate Starship Troopers, but at least Paul Verhoeven understands concepts such as irony.
The people who produced this ST: XI trailer don’t seem to know anything about ST:TOS other than what they’ve read in the IMDB synoposis.
ST:TOS was made by people who had served in World War II, and it had the dry, biting wit of guys who are putting on a sane, macho act and don’t want anyone to know how bad their PTSD really is.
The good ST:TOS writing and acting was Shakespearean in the “multilayered, stiletto-wielding, Polonius” sense, not Shakespearean in the “bang people over the head with an emotional battle ax” sense.
Captain Kirk, for example, absolutely did NOT start as off life as a baby Captain Kirk. He was a bright, creative, shy person who pretended to be Captain Kirk so obsessively that he became what he was pretending to be. Just about every character on the show who had any people skills knew that he was partly a fake, and said so.
This should be a perfect time to make a ST:TOS remake. If you can find a smart screenwriter who’s served in Iraq or Afghanistan, cast some actors who’ve served there, and pair them up with the people who made Babylon 5 or Iron Man, those people should understand exactly how to create a Star Trek for people who watched the Twin Towers fall down.
As far as I can tell from the trailer, J.J. Abrams and the other people who are working on ST:XI don’t seem to have the life experience to tell that kind of story. They know know about Syd Fields, not about what it’s like to breathe in WTC dust, or to ride through Iraq in a Hummer that could get blown up at any time.
And some people who never watched ST:TOS or think it’s “just a show” are going to say, “Come on, it’s just a show.”
But Babylon 5, the new Battlestar Galactica and Iron Man were/are all reflecting the sorts of currents that I’m talking about, and they all have extreme cult followings, because their makers understood the difference between serious thought and maudlin writing.
If Paramount could find filmmakers with that kind of understanding, maybe the new ST projectscould have their own cult followings, instead of feeding off of inherited glory.
Gene Roddenberry is shitting his pants in hell.
This is the cast of Dawson’s Creek in a Michael Bay film that just happens to have the Starship Enterprise floating through it. It’s a complete joke. Star Trek was never about explosions and sex, but this is all about explosions and sex. What Star Trek was about were ideas, but this film looks as emptyheaded and vapid as an episode of The Hills. All that’s missing is Speidi dressed as Kitson Klingons.
What a pile of space crap.
Like me, JJ Abrams is more of a Star Wars than a Trek fan, and his intention was to try to make more SW fans dig Trek with this movie. With this trailer, I’d say he’s got a good shot.
Star Trek had one thing that was very Unique
It was the only show/movie that was set in space and hardly had battles. Yet even then it did well.
Look at star trek 4 and most of the series of the orginals and TNG
I don’t know about you guys but Motion picture was a pretty decent film and under rated, especially the twist at the end.
I don’t mind Trek going to action packed – but trek needs to be human and needs to go back into sciece
and how they realate sceince into ints enviironment and make it fun. ( like the episode mirror mirror)