j.j.abrams-related stories
Posted Oct 1st 2009 4:27PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
It's great to be J.J. Abrams. His newest spec script about a married spy couple is currently undergoing a bidding war that it looks like
NBC is winning. On top of that, he's got a
new comedy on Fox and he's behind one of the best
revitalizations of a franchise in the history of the medium. The script is co-written by Josh Reims, who worked on shows such as ABC's
Brothers & Sisters and
Dirty Sexy Money.
As others have noted, this new spec script could play as a sequel to his hit show
Alias. That show did end with Sydney and Michael married with two kids being asked to return to service. Sadly, I think Jennifer Garner would consider that a backwards step in her career no matter how much she owes Abrams. Perhaps she could make a cameo?
It's interesting that the television spinoff of
Mr. & Mrs. Smith didn't last long and had the very same premise. But then, Abrams wasn't behind that one.
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 9:25AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: TV Royalty, Programming, OpEd, House, Lost, Scrubs, Reality-Free, Fringe
I guess even J.J. Abrams needs to lighten things up now and then. With shows like Fringe, Lost and Alias, and movies like Star Trek, Cloverfield and Mission Impossible III on his impressive resume, maybe he needs a break from the sci-fi / action / drama genres.
Now he's exec producing an untitled, half-hour comedy for Fox. It's written by Mike Markowitz (who's worked on Becker and It's All Relative), but other than that, details are few and far between. The tagline is that it'll be "a comedic medical show." Hmmm, so maybe like Scrubs?
Continue reading J.J. Abrams producing comedy for Fox
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 2:29PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Industry, TV on DVD, Interviews, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Fringe
If you ask J.J. Abrams about his master plan for
Fringe, he'll tell you the plan went out the window a while ago.
The creators and cast of Fox's top new series from last year's fall season gathered with press in Vancouver Monday to
celebrate the release of the show's first season on DVD and to look ahead at the upcoming second season.
When
Fringe left the airwaves last spring, J.J. Abrams, Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman introduced fans to a parallel universe -- setting up a war between our world and that new Earth on the edge of the fringe.
According to Abrams, a long-range plan for the show had him, Orci, Kurtzman and their writing staff revealing the other Earth as the source of
Fringe's anomalies maybe three or four seasons into the show's run.
Continue reading Set Report: Fringe looks to season two's 'war of worlds'
Posted Jun 23rd 2009 3:01PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Lost, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Like most fans of
Lost, I was terribly disappointed when the smoke monster apparently killed Mr. Eko in season three. Eko was a great character who helped the equally great John Locke discover the possibilities of a life led by faith.
Lost is still an amazing show, but I've really missed Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's presence.
Adewale, who will guest star in the Aug 7 episode of
Monk and appears in the potential blockbuster
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, now says he
wants to go back to the island. The actor says he left the show after his parents passed away in 2006, but he'd like to return to give Eko some real closure.
Continue reading Mr. Eko wants to return to Lost
Posted Jun 15th 2009 2:02PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, TV on the Bigscreen, Heroes, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
... Bryan Fuller thinks so. The former
Star Trek: Voyager producer and current
Heroes scribe told Sci Fi Wire that he'd
love to create a new Star Trek series.
"I think that a
Star Trek TV series is probably a couple years away, just to let the feature franchise breathe," the
Pushing Daisies creator said, adding that any new
Trek series should take place in the universe seen in J.J. Abrams' new
Star Trek movie.
Fuller said a new
Trek series shouldn't focus on the Enterprise crew – he thinks the Federation flagship should stick to the big screen – but on a new ship with a new crew and "an entirely new adventure."
Continue reading Is there hope for a new Star Trek TV show?
Posted Jun 10th 2009 7:27PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, Casting, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
Rumors that Jack Black was headed to the next
Star Trek movie as stellar con man Harry Mudd were dismissed by director J.J. Abrams Tuesday.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd was originally played by Roger C. Carmel (right) in
Trek's 1960s series. Whether hustling beauty drugs or androids, Mudd was always looking for a quick space buck and was a humorous thorn in Captain Kirk's side.
While some sites suggested Mudd's would-be return in Abrams' next movie could prove a great opportunity for
Jack Black to come aboard the Enterprise,
Abrams denied the Black casting move.
Continue reading Jack Black not trekking to play TV's Harry Mudd
Posted May 12th 2009 7:00PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
Over at ComicMix, Alan Kistler has
written annotations for the new Star Trek movie and how well it fits into the overall continuity of the show. It's a pretty impressive list and does prove that despite the blatant contradiction of the show's history as a result of time travel, they were actually pretty good with getting the details of the characters correct.
Spoilers follow this paragraph. You have been warned.
Continue reading Everything you didn't want to know about the Star Trek movie
Posted May 9th 2009 5:02PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free
J.J. Abrams' new
Star Trek has sparked a huge controversy in the Trekkie universe, a controversy that in the real world amounts to a drunken debate in a dive border town bar over which Darren on
Bewitched was more "boneable."
My sneak preview review sparked a wave of supportive and angry comments that I have never seen in my history with TV Squad, which amounts to six months depending on which of my accountants you talk to. My former accountant can be reached at the Tennessee Colony State Prison, Tennessee Colony, Texas.
It seems the angrier of the Treksters are getting their head gear in a bunch because Abrams chose to work Leonard Nimoy into the picture via a time travel plot that completely alters the original history and lore of the original series. As one commentor put it, "instead of obliterating a few minutes of exposition about 20 years we didn't watch, this has obliterated [forty three plus] years of storytelling that we did watch."
Continue reading The new Star Trek flick has started a Trekkie civil war
Posted May 8th 2009 10:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free
I'm not the kind of person who normally resorts to pumping something full of hype, but if you are reading this and haven't seen the new big-screen adaptation of
Star Trek, you need to be tied to something heavy so that "certain" people can know your whereabouts at all times.
J.J. Abrams' new vision of TV's original
Star Trek has everything you expect from a summer movie flick that costs $150 million to make and $8.25 a ticket: laughs, big explosions, smokin' hot alien babes who spend the majority of their screen time in skimpy underwear.
Continue reading New Star Trek kicks the ass of every other Star Trek
Posted May 5th 2009 1:25PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
Actually, talk about a sequel to J.J. Abrams
Star Trek reboot started a few months ago. In March, Paramount announced
plans to hire Abrams' pals Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman (
Fringe, um,
Star Trek) and
Lost producer Damon Lindelof to pen the sequel.
Now, the writing trio is
talking about ideas for the sequel. One idea they have is possibly casting Javier Bardem as frakkin' Khan!
I like the idea, but I doubt it's gonna happen. As Lindelof said in a recent interview with Crave, Bardem as Khan -- originally played by Ricardo Montalban in
Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan -- would probably eat up the entire film and possibly push characters like Kirk, Spock and Bones to the sidelines. It would be too big.
Continue reading Let the Star Trek sequel talk begin
Posted May 4th 2009 7:13PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free, Fringe
We all knew this was a lock.
Fans of Fox's
Fringe can now
officially look forward to season two.
The show was a hit right out of the gate, garnering huge numbers for its series premiere. It's currently the "number one show for adults 18-49," according to Fox. If that doesn't guarantee you a renewal, then I don't know what will.
Aside from the show's great cast, its quirky sense of humor, and its compelling mysteries, there are two reasons I'll stick with
Fringe through season two: Producer J.J. Abrams and Leonard Nimoy.
Star Trek's Nimoy is slated to be around for an episode or two (hopefully more) next season as Massive Dynamic founder William Bell. Nimoy's return to television is reason enough to tune in.
Continue reading Fox renews Fringe for season two
Posted May 4th 2009 5:02PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Reality-Free
And it might open just in time for ... one of the eventual sequels to J.J. Abram's new movie? Maybe. We're not sure.
Details about the re-opening of
Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas are sketchy at best.
TrekMovie.com reported that Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman said part of the new Experience would open this week, just in time for the new
Trek movie. We're still waiting on that.
The latest news is that the new Experience -- the original closed last year – will open in 2010 at Neonopolis in downtown Vegas. Here's the cool news: It will feature more elements and props from the original 1960's
Star Trek series and from the new movie.
Continue reading New Vegas Star Trek Experience to pay homage to original series, new movie
Posted Mar 31st 2009 10:01AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Casting, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
Arguably the twelfth movie in the franchise (or the second movie in the rebooted franchise), Paramount and J.J. Abrams are showing a lot of faith by already
hiring the writers for the Star Trek "sequel". These scribes are frequent co-conspirators of Abrams: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof.
Orci and Kurtzman wrote the upcoming "first" movie (and are also responsible for the first
Transformers movie, although the bulk of the blame for that should go to Michael Bay). Lindelof is a co-creator of
Lost. Abrams is "staying within the family", as it were.
(And since the franchise is being rebooted from scratch and all the rules can now be broken, can we have Kirk fight the Borg? I've always wanted to see that.)
I know that advanced planning like this is normal in Hollywood, but In the event the movie bombs (not bloody likely, admittedly), they're going to have eggs on their collective faces for their presumptuousness.
Posted Mar 9th 2009 8:24AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
Star Trek will be in movie theaters on May 8, 2009, and with it the hopes and fears of Trekkers worldwide. I'm one of those longtime fans who is both excited and apprehensive about
J.J. Abrams' take on Gene Roddenberry's vision of
Wagon Train to the stars. Yes, that was once all it aspired to be. It was just going to be a TV show. Roddenberry optimistically referred to a five year mission in the intro hoping it might last that long.
Of course, that's a long, long time ago -- in a galaxy far, far away, if you mix sci-fi metaphors. Now, we're poised to see a new incarnation of
Star Trek, and
the new trailer is online. Take a look at it after the jump.
Continue reading I'm trying to be excited about the new Star Trek trailer - VIDEO
Posted Dec 11th 2008 6:07PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Casting, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
It's almost as if J.J. Abrams is patting nervous
Star Trek fans on the back and cooing, "It's OK. Everything's gonna be alright."
Variety reported this week that Majel Barrett-Roddenberry will reprise her role as
the voice of the Enterprise computer for Abrams' upcoming
Star Trek flick. Barret-Roddenberry, the widow of
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, voiced the computer for all six
Trek series and many of the movies. She also played Christine Chapel in the original series and two of the films as well as "Number One" in
Star Trek's original pilot. And who could forget her as
Lwaxana Troi, the randy Betazoid from
The Next Genertation?
Continue reading Star Trek creator's widow to voice J.J. Abrams' Enterprise computer
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