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Spock in Abrams ‘Star Trek’ … Updated With Even More!!!

Aintitcool.com has the first official shot of the Vulcan, and news is that Entertainment Weekly will have more to follow this week.

I think Zachary Quinto is great in Heroes, and I hope he is a huge success after this comes out. Can’t wait to see more.

Update: Ain’t it Cool News wasn’t the only one, Joblo has a pic of Eric Bana as the Baddie, Ugo has a crew shot, Trek Movie has a shot of a ship in trouble, IGN has Kirk climbing some ice, and MTV has Kirk in his Captain pose. Check them all out below!

No Shatner in ‘Star Trek’, JJ? What Happened?

AMCTV caught up with JJ Abrams while he was out promoting his new show, ‘Fringe’.   The subject of Abrams next directing gig, ‘Star Trek’, and, more specifically, why there would be no William Shatner came up.   Here’s what Abrams said:

It was very tricky. We actually had written a scene with him in it that was a flashback kind of thing, but the truth is, it didn’t quite feel right. The bigger thing was that he was very vocal that he didn’t want to do a cameo. We tried desperately to put him in the movie, but he was making it very clear that he wanted the movie to focus on him significantly, which, frankly, he deserves. The truth is, the story that we were telling required a certain adherence to the Trek canon and consistency of storytelling. It’s funny — a lot of the people who were proclaiming that he must be in this movie were the same people saying it must adhere to canon. Well, his character died on screen. Maybe a smarter group of filmmakers could have figured out how to resolve that.

A certain adherence to Trek canon?   You’ve got a Korean guy playing a Japanese guy.

‘Star Trek’ comes out May 8, 2009.

J.J. Abrams’ ‘Earthquake’? Start the Viral Marketing in 3, 2, 1…

Is it the Cloverfield monster?   Is it the island?   Is it a Rembaldi Geometric Device?   Only J.J. Abrams knows for sure.

It appears the producer is planning to team with screenwriter David Seltzer, ‘The Omen’, on a disaster flick for Universal that includes an earthquake.

The film has no title as of yet and is evidently not a remake of the 1974, Charlton Heston vehicle ‘Earthquake’.   In fact, in high Abrams fashion, most details are being kept under tight lock and key.   The only real detail given so far is, like ‘Cloverfield’, the film will deal with relationships.

Office pools abound as to when the first viral website will be set up to coincide with the new film.

NEW Star Trek Posters


Just like they did last year, Paramount chose the Creation Official Star Trek convention in Las Vegas  to give fans a new poster for ‘Star Trek.’ According to TrekMovie.com, they are gave fans eight posters; the four that were given out at Comic Con and four new ones in the same style but with the rest of the cast of the movie.

As  with the Comic Con posters, the new posters form the Star Trek delta emblem when put together, but each is a large sized poster on its own. The four new Star Trek posters feature (clockwise from upper right below): John Cho (Sulu), Simon Pegg (Scotty), Anton Yelchin (Chekov), and Karl Urban (McCoy).

From LOST creator J.J. Abrams, the  new ‘Star Trek’ chronicles the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members. ‘Star Trek’ is due in theaters May 8th, 2009

Paramount Wasting No Time On ‘Cloverfield’ Sequel

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With the barf bags still cooling on the theater floors of the motion-sickness-inducing hit Cloverfield, Paramount is springing into action to ensure that the monster’s reign of terror is far from over.   Variety reports that Cloverfield director Matt Reeves is in talks with the company to make directing the sequel his next project.   If so, it’ll mean Reeves’ other upcoming project, the suspense-thriller The Invisible Woman, will be put on the back burner for now.   Reeves certainly has his mind on Cloverfield possibilities, if recent interviews are any indication.   This from Bloody-Disgusting.com’s chat with Reeves at the film’s premiere:

“While we were on set making the film we talked about the possibilities and directions of how a sequel can go.   The fun of this movie was that it might not have been the only movie being made that night, there might be another movie!   In today’s day and age of people filming their lives on their iphones and handy cams, uploading it to youtube…That was kind of exciting thinking about that.”

Whether or not this immediate sequel business happens will heavily rely on producer J.J. Abrams and screenwriter Drew Goddard hammering out a new story for the sequel in time.   If not, audiences will have to settle for actual youtube footage, which the last time I checked was 90% less ‘terrifying’ and 90% more ‘cats being funny’.