This week Star Trek director Justin Lin is planning some reshoots with the 3rd instalment of the rebooted "Abramsverse" movies, Star Trek Beyond. The good news is Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo is joining the ranks of Starfleet's finest but what role does she play?
Fans will remember her from Rosewater, Xmen, Last stand, 24 or House of Sand and Fog. To date she won an oscar nomination and took home an Emmy for supporting actress in 2009. So whats the expose on Shohreh? We hear you ask. Well rumor has it shes important. We don't know her name yet, but shes got a seat of power at the Federation's High Command, now that gotta count for something! Personally I love the idea of having a powerful female in charge.
IMAGE OWNER/ CREATOR: PARAMOUNT PICTURES AND OR CBS STUDIOS
Will she be snarky and fierce like Fleet Admiral Alynna_Nechayev who bossed Riker around in Star Trek TNG Chain of Command P1 or something else? If Shohreh Aghdashloo (Characters Name Unknown) ordered the USS Enterprise NCC 1701 to obliterate the swarm of alien spacehips then Captain Kirk must be pardoned for wrecking the bloody ship again!
But does she give the order? What do you think?
Which of these "Captains orders" grabs your fancy?
1. Ahead Warp factor One or
2. Engage!!! Warp Nine!
“Star Trek Beyond,” hits movie theatres on July 22nd. Snarky Long and Prosper, Trekkers.
Six years on, STAR TREK is still the reigning Science Fiction champion to score big and win at the Oscars. We know now Star Wars EP VII got thrashed by Mad Max 4 despite the force being nominated half a dozen times.
Heres Ben Stiller costumed as a Na'vi hunter presenting at the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010. After slagging off Star Trek and gushing over James Cameron's Avatar, our blue friend finally scrams so Star Trek winners Mindy Hall, Barney Burman and Joel Harlow can victoriously claim their Oscars for best makeup category.
Jeffrey Scott's - Battle of the Bands regales Rockstar Aficionados all the time - so having found a Science Fiction angle, I wanted to join in the "Battle of the Bands" fun.
Star Trek Beyond's teaser trailer is exploring new territory. (Alas forget Jerry Goldsmith and
James Horner) Question: Is the Beastie Boy's "Sabotage" track punchy enough to shake up the
entire galactic Federation of Lifeforms?
We need Star Trek as a NO1 box office smash hit but Beyond has
to win over the hearts of fans first. The truth is emotional reactions are running quite high. You may remember the first time Kirk played "Sabotage" in 2009 as he drove his stepdads red corvette over a cliff.
Its time to choose 1 out of 3 songs you'd like to hear in Star Trek Beyond.
1. Sabotage by Beastie Boys
2. It's My Life by Bon Jovi
3. Womanizer by Britney Spears
Which of these 3 music tracks is your favorite for Star Trek Beyond?
Let us know your "song of choice" in the comments below.
Rock Long and Prosper - Rockstars, Trekstars and Blogstars!
Christine Rains, C. Lee McKenzie and Tara Tyler are hosting a Winter Bloghop which I spotted over at the writegame.blogspot.com. Its all good fun. The idea is to shake
off the seasons blues by posting a fun MEME on whatever cosmically takes your fancy. All you have to
do is select a favorite image (You've probably guessed that I love Science Fiction.) Now warp over
to https://imgflip.com/memegenerator, upload - type in your words/quotes and publish!
I found an amusing snap from Galaxy Quest with "Sir Alexander Dane" (Alan Rickman) chatting with co-star Gwen deMarco (Sigourney Weaver) over
the phone. (He's alone in his apartment, STILL wearing his latex Alien Scalp on his head.) Gwen is upset
because their supreme commander "Captain Jason Nesmith" freaked out bigstyle with a fan.
Star Trek Beyond Will Mix Things Up in Its Plot, Jumping Forward in Time! is the latest scoop to hit
the trekkie sphere over at Master Herald. Star Trek Beyond Won't Be A Traditional Kirk-Spock
Adventure according to cinemablend. Almost everyone knows poor William Shatner is not in the movie. To keep everything on track, heres Director Justin Lin's "INSIDER VIEW" on ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Criticisms:
“We Are Trying to Be Bold and Take Risks”
was Posted by Peter Sciretta over at Slashfilm recently. Heres a few quotes from J. Linn who explains why
trek's trailer was mind boggling.... to be kind. Justin Lin Quote 1
Well, its a minute and a half, you know… And again, there were other versions that were much more
traditional and I can see where maybe the hardcore fans could probably see that as, “Oh.” But with
trailers you’re putting a two-hour movie into a minute and a half, and the one thing I wanted to
make sure is that it hopefully represents that we are trying to be bold and take risks, whether we
are successful or not, I don’t know. That was something I was excited to do and with collaborators
like Simon [Pegg] and Doug [Jung], passion for the franchise will be there regardless. So however
it’s presented, yeah it’s a minute and a half, and my challenge to everyone making the trailer is
about saying “let’s not go off course, I’m not afraid to share — share it, I feel like we have the
goods in a two-hour run and you really do get to know the characters and hopefully the journey is
great. I love it and the cast did an amazing job and the crew… and the inside baseball version of
the creation of this Trek was pretty condensed in how you usually make a movie of this size. And I
wanted us to be bold, I wanted us to take chances and hopefully in a minute and a half we are able
to convey that.
THESE ROCKS ARE NOT FAKE, WELL THATS NOT TYPICAL!
Justin Lin Quote 2
Yeah, and I don’t know if that’s the case here. When I saw the teaser, I’m like, aw shit. You
really have to put the motorcycle in there? So I get it, I get it, I get it.
Justin Lin Quote 3 (Music)
It’s in the DNA of this canon. It was in the ’09 Trek, and we went through different iterations of
the teaser and I wanted to make sure whatever here is using all the elements from the film. It’s
been a part of this Kirk’s journey and so I felt it was very organic, and it will ultimately be in
the finished film.
IMAGE OWNER/ CREATOR: PARAMOUNT PICTURES AND OR CBS STUDIOS
Justin Lin Quote 4 (Lin VS Pegg)
The one thing that was when I came on this [film project], I didn’t even realize how emotional my
level of engagement with Trek was until the first day of preproduction when I walked into the
hallway of the Enterprise and it hit me. It’s part of me but my level of engagement with Trek was
really from 8 to 18, when I would watch Trek at 11 PM on channel 13 with my dad. He worked all day,
closed shop at 9 PM and dinner at 10 and watched Trek. And so a lot of that is trying to create
something that embraces the essence of Trek for me. Simon has a very different level of engagement,
and Doug also has a very different… so it’s awesome to get in there and have those collaborators and
have that discourse about how we were going to craft this movie. ‘Cause Simon, he knows EVERYTHING
about Trek and it’s great to have those guys with me the whole way.
Art is the wonderful mirror of humanity..... When Chris Pine says this, Simon Pegg is seated looking
at him. I have no idea how Pegg kept such a straight face but he did - right to the very end of the
video - Hilarious.
Justin Lin Quote 5 (Star Trek Beyond Title)
He kind of tracked me down and we’re talking and I didn’t know what to expect. I thought maybe he
was offering to go shoot a script that existed and he said, no, it’s yours. Go and be bold. And just
take it. Be bold and make it what you think you would do to Star Trek. And the more we talked about
it, the more we kept saying, well let’s keep pushing. Let’s keep pushing. And that’s when Simon kind
of said, well it should be Star Trek Beyond. And it was his idea. And it was kind of came from all
our conversations. And we looked at each other and like oh, that sounds like the title of this film.
And the interview goes on and on. All this awesomeness over one trailer, aren't we spoilt? For more Star Trek Beyond analysis, warp over on over to Slashfilm Page 2 and Slashfilm Page 3
This week Star Trek director Justin Lin is planning some reshoots with the 3rd instalment of the rebooted "Abramsverse" movies, Star Trek Beyond. The good news is Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo is joining the ranks of Starfleet's finest but what role does she play?
