Posts with tag mr. spock
Posted Feb 23rd 2008 4:39PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Celebrities
Don't you just love the web? News traveling so fast, ideas extrapolated and speculated upon based on the simplest of facts. That said, here's a sweet little tidbit that I found amusing. Tom Cruise was spotted on the Los Angeles set of the new
Star Trek feature film. He reportedly was visiting writer/director JJ Abrams. The two men, you'll recall, collaborated on
Mission Impossible 3.
This
exclusive, courtesy of JFXOnline, revealed that Tom stuck around the set for a couple of hours. Prior to this sighting, there had also been talk last fall that Abrams had wanted to enlist the superstar to make a brief cameo appearance in the revamped
Star Trek opus, telling the story of how creator Gene Roddenberry's original characters came to be. How Captain Kirk made it out of the Star Fleet Academy (in
The Wrath of Khan he said he cheated on his Kobyashi Maru simulation test), as well as the first time Kirk met the half-Vulcan, half-human Mr. Spock.
Continue reading Tom Cruise visits Trek set
Posted Feb 21st 2008 6:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Sports, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Web
Recently, TV Squad reported that
NBC has added all kinds of classic TV shows to their online outlets. Now comes the
announcement that CBS is also bringing a variety of well-loved TV dramas to the web. CBS Interactive is raiding the CBS Library, which is "one of the largest television programming libraries in the entertainment business," to present TV series online across the CBS Audience Network.
Like the NBC fodder, the CBS offering is gangbusters: full-length episodes of classic
Star Trek, Rod Serling's
The Twilight Zone,
MacGyver, Hawaii Five-O and
Melrose Place. CBS plans to add more programs and clips in the coming months, including sports and other kinds of entertainment.
Continue reading CBS adds TV classics to web line up
Posted Feb 21st 2008 11:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Lost
Lost is perhaps the ultimate in TV fiction. The storytelling is the stuff of vivid imaginations and it's gotten millions watching and wondering and tuning in for more. Of course, in the midst of all that fantasy, some things we've taken as fact, like most of the technology. For instance, I don't know about you, but I believed those
satellite phones they've been using since Naomi parachuted onto the island last season were the real thing. Well, guess what, it's no more of a reality than Mr. Spock's tricorder on
Star Trek!
Continue reading Big shock - Lost uses fictional phones
Posted Sep 12th 2006 8:54AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV Royalty, Talent, Web, Celebrities
Fun Q and A with Captain Kirk himself over at Wired magazine. It's mostly about his new video game Legacy, where he plays Captain Kirk for the first time in ten years. Among the tidbits you'll discover from the interview:
- He still has no idea how to use a computer.
- He doesn't care who plays Kirk in the new movie, as long as they're thin and rich.
- There's no way he's going to do any appearance as Kirk on those fan-made web Trek episodes.
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Posted Jun 22nd 2006 6:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Talent, TV on the Bigscreen, Celebrities
We've heard the stories this week that director/producer J.J. Abrams is interested in having Matt Damon play Captain Kirk in an upcoming movie about Kirk and Spock. But something troubles me. All of the articles are saying that Damon will play a "young" Captain Kirk. Huh? Damon is going to be 36 in a few months, and will probably be 37 or 38 when the movie comes out.
Shatner was 35 when he did the original
Star Trek.
Now, sure, they could mean (like Keith says) that they mean younger than Shatner
now, but they can't mean that or we could get someone 60 and compared to Shatner that would be "young." I think this is really a matter of everyone who's writing about it misunderstanding what exactly the plot will be and just repeating the same line about a young Kirk, as if it means young = before the original.
Posted Jun 21st 2006 3:32PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Talent, TV on the Bigscreen, Celebrities
Oh,
Trekkies Trekkers are going to have a lot to say about
this, I'm sure.
J.J. Abrams says that's he wants to cast Damon as the captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the new
Star Trek movie he is putting together. And he even has the blessing of the original Captain James. T. Kirk, William Shatner.
I think this is a good idea, actually. Damon looks the part, and as the
Bourne movies showed, he can do action. But please, please, please don't cast Ben Affleck as Spock. Nothing against Affleck, I just think that would be too much to take, like it's
Space Will Hunting or something.
Posted Apr 25th 2006 7:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV Royalty, Talent
Everyone was excited the other day when Variety reported that
Lost/
Alias creator and
Mission: Impossible 3 director J.J. Abrams was going to direct the
next
Star Trek flick in 2008, making a prequel to the original Kirk/Spock show. But it wasn't exactly as the
paper reported ...or was it? Empire has
a quick
interview with Abrams:
"The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation. People
learned that I was producing a Star Trek film, that I had an option to direct it, they hear rumors of what the thing
was going to be and ran with a story that is not entirely accurate."
But here's where the
confusion starts. The headline of this article is "It Won't Be Kirk and Spock." But then the article goes on
to say that Abrams is a fan of the original series, he thinks the characters are "spectacular," that the
characters "could live again," and that he isn't releasing any details of the plot. So why is the article
titled and slanted like that? There's really nothing here that contradicts the news from the other day, except that
Abrams hasn't officially signed on as director yet.
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