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They meet Montgomery Scott who beams onto the Enterprise film 2007 in film with Kirk. On Earth, James Kirk has become a reckless but intelligent young man.
A few minutes into Khan, the film appeared to melt and Leonard Nimoy appeared on stage with Orci, Kurtzman and Lindelof, asking the audience, wouldn’t you rather see the new movie? The first teaser trailer debuted in theaters with Cloverfield on January 18, 2008, which showed the Enterprise under construction. James Cawley, producer and star of the webseries Star Trek: New Voyages, appears as a Starfleet officer, while Pavel Lychnikoff and Lucia Rijker play Romulans, Lychnikoff a Commander and Rijker a CO.
Morgan Sheppard, who played a Klingon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, appears in this film as the head of the Vulcan Science Council. Professional welders were hired for the teaser. Paramount faced two obstacles in promoting the film: the unfamiliarity of the MySpace generation with the franchise and the relatively weak international performance of the films.
I think he just wanted each of us to look at the stars a little differently, said John Cho. Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain were among several companies that created over 1,000 special effect shots. Star Trek was the first film ILM worked on using entirely digital ships. Carolyn Porco of NASA was consulted on the planetary science and imagery. Lola Visual Effects worked on 48 shots, including some animation to Eric Bana and Leonard Nimoy. W.
The crew devises a plan to ambush the Narada by hiding behind Saturn s moon, Titan. Ambassador Spock tells his younger self that he and Kirk need each other and that he should do what feels right instead of what is logical.
Star Trek is a 2009 science fiction film directed by J. Wil Wheaton, known for portraying Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was brought in, through urging by Greg Grunberg, to voice several of the other Romulans in the film. Orci and Kurtzman wrote a scene for William Shatner, where old Spock gives his younger self a recorded message by Kirk from the previous timeline.
Aboard the Narada, Robau is questioned by Nero. Abrams deemed the scene too similar to the cantina sequence in Star Wars, and decided to dot the designs around the film. Filming began on November 7, 2007, Following the commencement of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike on November 5, 2007, Abrams, himself a WGA member, told Variety that while he would not render writing services for the film and intended to walk the picket line, he did not expect the strike to impact his directing of the production. The production team maintained heavily enforced security around the film.
It is the eleventh film based on the Star Trek franchise and features the main characters of the original Star Trek television series, who are portrayed by a new cast. The story establishes an alternate reality through time-travel by both Nero and the original Spock (Leonard Nimoy), freeing the film and the franchise from established continuity constraints. Development of the film began in 2005.
The Enterprise escapes by ejecting and detonating the ship s warp core; the explosion pushes them clear of the black hole. On Earth, Kirk is promoted to captain of the Enterprise and Captain Pike to Admiral. When Nero s ship attacked Spock s, both were caught in the event horizon of the black hole, sending them back in time; the Narada arrived first, encountering the Kelvin.
Burtt used a 1960s oscillator to create a musical and emotional hum to the warping and transporting sounds. In February 2008, Paramount announced they would move Star Trek from its December 25, 2008 release date to May 8, 2009, as the studio felt more people would see the film during summer than winter. On December 9, 2009, the film was also named one of the top 10 films of the year by the National Board of Review.
Acting Captain George Kirk orders the ship evacuated onto shuttlecrafts, including his wife Winona, who is in labor. But in order for him to do that, he must become Enterprise s captain.
Leonard McCoy smuggles Kirk aboard the USS Enterprise; while on board, Kirk learns that a lightning storm in space was reported shortly before the distress signal was received. The second one, Star Trek: Nero, covers the gap between the destruction of the USS Kelvin and the reappearance of the Narada in the new timeline. The film s major cast members have signed on for two sequels. .
Their ship, the Narada, is purely practical with visible mechanics as it is a working ship , unlike the Enterprise crew who give a respectable presentation on behalf of the Federation. Barney Burman supervised the makeup for the other aliens: his team had to rush the creation of many of the aliens, because originally the majority of them were to feature in one scene towards the end of filming. Abrams, to produce it. Abrams had not seen Star Trek Nemesis because the franchise had disconnected for him, On February 23, 2007, Abrams accepted Paramount s offer to direct the film, having been only attached as producer. Orci said creating a clean reboot would have been disrespectful, Orci noted while the time travel story allowed them to alter some backstory elements such as Kirk s first encounter with the Romulans, they could not use it as a crutch to change everything and they tried to approach the film as a prequel as much as possible.
On the planet, Kirk encounters Ambassador Spock, who states that both Nero and himself are from the future. That same month, it also won 6 Scream Awards for Ultimate Scream, Best Science Fiction Movie, Best Director, Best Science Fiction Actor, Best Cameo, and Best Fight Scene.
J. Abrams compared the redesign to the sleek modernist work of Pierre Cardin and the sets from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which were from the 1960s. Abrams selected Michael Kaplan to design the costumes because he had not seen any of the films, meaning he would approach the costumes with a new angle.
Abrams noted the large-scale campaign started unusually early, but this was because the release delay allowed him to show more completed scenes than normal. After a bar fight, Kirk meets Captain Christopher Pike, who challenges him to emulate his father s heroism and join Starfleet, which he does. Three years later, Kirk draws Spock s ire by cheating during the Kobayashi Maru test, which Spock programmed.
During Kirk s hearing over the matter, Starfleet receives a distress signal from Vulcan. Bana required extensive damage to his teeth, which was significant enough to completely replace his mouth in some shots.
The first one, titled Star Trek: Countdown, takes place in the Prime Star Trek universe, after the events of Nemesis and before the back story of Star Trek Online. Taking his advice, Spock remains in Starfleet, becoming first officer under Kirk s command. Tyler Perry appears as the head of Starfleet Academy, Admiral Richard Barnett.
Louis, Las Vegas, Boston and Washington DC. Star Trek has also been nominated for four Academy awards in the following categories: Best Make Up, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects, and Best Sound Effects Editing. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 17, 2009 in North America, The story of the film is completed by two comics books by IDW Publishing. For the Starfleet uniforms, Kaplan followed the show s original color coding, with dark gray (almost black) undershirts and pants and colored overshirts showing each crew member s position (command officers wear gold shirts, science and medical officers wear blue, and operations (technicians/engineers) and security personnel wear red).
Six months before the film s release, Abrams toured Rome; Cologne; Madrid; Paris; London; New York City and Los Angeles with 25 minutes of footage. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) before they unite aboard the USS Enterprise to combat Nero (Eric Bana), a Romulan from their future who threatens the United Federation of Planets.
Pike agrees, promoting Spock to captain and Kirk to first officer. Kirk and Hikaru Sulu perform a space jump onto the drilling platform, disabling it. Berman approached Mission: Impossible III writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman for ideas on the new film, and after the film had completed shooting she asked their director, J.
The two walk to a nearby Starfleet outpost. Gail Berman, then president of Paramount, convinced CBS chief executive, Leslie Moonves, to allow them eighteen months to develop a new Star Trek film before CBS would re-earn the rights to develop a new television series (in return, CBS would keep merchandising rights).
J. It was basically a Happy Birthday wish knowing that Spock was going to go off to Romulus, and Kirk would probably be dead by the time, and it would have transitioned into Shatner reciting Where no man has gone before . Nichelle Nichols suggested playing Uhura s grandmother, but Abrams could not write this in due to the Writers Guild strike. At the 1968 World Science Fiction Convention, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry declared he would make a film prequel to the television series. In 2005, Viacom, which owned Paramount Pictures, split from CBS Corporation, which retained Paramount s television properties, including ownership of the Star Trek brand.
Spock then relays his story through a mind meld: 129 years in the future, the galaxy is threatened by a volatile supernova. Abrams, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Nero tortures Pike in an attempt to gain access to Earth s perimeter defenses. After arguing with Spock, Kirk is marooned on Delta Vega for mutiny. As an adult, he declines to join the Vulcan Science Academy after his human heritage is referred to as a disadvantage, and instead joins Starfleet.
When Robau professes no knowledge of the Vulcan Ambassador Spock and states the current stardate, Nero kills him and orders the Kelvin s destruction. Whereas the phaser blast noises from the television series were derived from The War of the Worlds (1953), Burtt made his phaser sounds more like his blasters from Star Wars, because Abrams depiction of phasers were closer to the blasters bullet-like fire, rather than the steady beams of energy in previous Star Trek films.
Kirk recognizes the events as being similar to what happened the day his father died, and warns Pike that the fleet is heading into a trap. In addition it has appeared on several local film critics top 10 lists, including St.
The viewscreen was made into a window that could have images projected on it to make the space environment palpable. Nero plotted his revenge on Spock.
The filmmakers had filmed Nimoy when he rerecorded his lines so they could rotoscope his mouth into the film, even recreating the lighting conditions, but they realized they had to digitally recreate his lips because of the bouncing light created by the camp fire. Michael Giacchino, Abrams most frequent collaborator, composed the music for Star Trek. The showing was publicized as a screening of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, followed by a ten-minute preview of the new Star Trek film.
Kirk rescues Pike while Spock uses Ambassador Spock s ship to destroy the drill and lure the Narada away from Earth before piloting a collision course into the Narada. Cinematographer Dan Mindel and Abrams agreed the choice gave the film a big-screen feel and the realistic, organic look they wanted for the film setting. When the shoot ended, Abrams gave the cast small boxes containing little telescopes, which allowed them to read the name of each constellation it was pointed at.
Karl Urban revealed, Abrams chose to shoot the film in the anamorphic format on 35 mm film after discussions about whether the film should be shot in high-definition digital video. Abrams himself directed the first part of the trailer, where a welder removes his goggles.
J. Kirk s service on the Farragut, a major backstory point to the original episode Obsession , was left out because it was deemed irrelevant to the story of Kirk meeting Spock, although Orci felt nothing in his script precluded it from the new film s backstory. The filmmakers sought inspiration from novels such as Prime Directive, Spock s World, and Best Destiny to fill in gaps unexplained by canon; Best Destiny particularly explores Kirk s childhood and names his parents. Orci and Kurtzman said they wanted the general audience to like the film as much as the fans, by stripping away Treknobabble , making it action-packed and giving it the simple title of Star Trek (to indicate to newcomers they would not need to watch any of the other films). Orci and Kurtzman read graduate school dissertations on the series for inspiration; The USS Kelvin, the ship Kirk s father serves on, is named after J.
With the primary fleet out of range, the cadets are mobilized to help crew awaiting ships in orbit. It won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture.
The Enterprise arrives at Vulcan to find the fleet destroyed and the Narada drilling into Vulcan s core. Kirk sacrifices himself to steer the Kelvin on a collision course into the Narada, and Winona agrees with George to name their son James moments before the ships collide. Several years later, a young Spock, growing up on the planet Vulcan, is discriminated against for being half-human.
The film was practically finished by the end of 2008. A surprise public screening was held on April 6, 2009, at the Alamo Drafthouse theater in Austin, Texas, hosted by writers Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and producer Damon Lindelof. Midway through the shoot, Paramount chose to delay the release date from December 25, 2008 to May 2009, believing the film could reach a wider audience. Star Trek has earned high critical praise, gaining a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
On November 10, 2009, the People’s Choice Awards nominated the film for 4 awards: Breakout Actress, Breakout Actor, Favorite Franchise, Favorite Movie; it failed to win any award. Location Manager of the year and Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Big Budget Feature.
The Enterprise arrives and beams Kirk, Pike, and Spock away. The film follows James T.
Kirk deliberately enrages Commander Spock, forcing him to acknowledge that he is emotionally compromised thereby forfeiting command to Kirk. Spock intended to use red matter to create a black hole to consume it, but before he could enact his plan, the supernova s nebula destroyed the planet Romulus.
Kaplan wanted the shirts to be more sophisticated than the originals and selected to have the Starfleet symbol patterned on them. Lindelof compared the film s Romulan faction to pirates with their bald, tattooed heads and disorganized costuming. Spock encounters his older self in a hangar.
Nimoy s mouth was reanimated in his first scene with Kirk following a rerecording session. On June 15, 2009, the film was nominated for 5 Teen Choice Awards, but did not win any of them.
On December 14, 2009, the Broadcast Film Critics Association – Critics Choice Awards nominated it for Best Action Movie, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Makeup, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound, but did not win any of them. Filming took place from November 2007 to March 2008 under intense secrecy.
Spock arrived 25 years later and was captured by Nero, who stranded him on Delta Vega to watch Vulcan s destruction. Ambassador Spock states that only Kirk can stop Nero. on May 7, 2009, As of 14 December 2009 (2009 -12-14) Ty Burr of the Boston Globe gave it 4/4 stars, describing it as ridiculously satisfying , and the best prequel ever . Although only two reviews were categorized by Metacritic as yellow , or mixed, a recurring critical complaint held that the franchise s tradition of providing morally challenging stories had been neglected or even violated.
The production s aim was to be faithful to the Star Trek canon, modifying continuity with the time-travel storyline, and modernizing the production design of the original show. The younger Spock informs his older self of his intention to leave Starfleet to aid his people.
Ambassador Spock is departing to establish a new colony with the remaining Vulcans. Once there, Kirk and Spock beam aboard the Narada.
Narada s captain, Nero, demands to meet with Captain Robau of the Kelvin. The film also received several peer-reviewed guild awards for Asst.
As Vulcan is destroyed, Spock rescues some of the planet s elders, but his mother dies along with the majority of the planet s population. The director preferred promoting his projects quietly, but concurred Paramount needed to remove Star Trek s stigma. Promotional partners on the film include Nokia, Verizon Wireless, Esurance, Kellogg s, Burger King and Intel Corporation, as well as various companies specializing in home decorating, apparel, jewelry, gift items and Tiberius, Pon Farr and Red Shirt fragrances. The film s first normal US screenings were at 7 p.m.
Abrams grandfather, as well as the physicist and engineer Lord Kelvin (William Thomson). However, it has drilled deep enough for Nero to launch red matter into the planet s core, which creates a black hole.
The Narada attacks the Enterprise and Nero orders Pike to surrender himself. The Kelvin s captain, Richard Robau (Faran Tahir), is named after Orci s Cuban uncle: Orci theorized the fictional character was born in Cuba and grew up in the Middle East. The film was primarily designed by Ryan Church, Neville Page, the Cloverfield monster s creator, Production designer Scott Chambliss maintained the layout of the original bridge, but aesthetically altered it with brighter colors to reflect the optimism of Star Trek.
In October, 2009, Star Trek won the Hollywood Award for Best Movie. The AV Club gave the film a green B+, but asserted that it was a reconsideration of what constitutes Star Trek, one that deemphasizes heady concepts and plainly stated humanist virtues in favor of breathless action punctuated by bursts of emotion.
Spock s ship and the Narada collide, igniting the remaining red matter and creating a black hole. He kept the original theme by Alexander Courage for the end credits, which Abrams said symbolized the momentum of the crew coming together. The sound effects were designed by Star Wars veteran Ben Burtt.
Burtt reproduced the classic photon torpedo and warp drive sounds: he tapped a long spring against a contact microphone, and combined that with cannon fire.
