Star Trek (2009) filming now complete, first teaser...

[Julius Seeker]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZiR-NETDr0">Teaser released during filming</a>

To give a bit of info on the film: It is the earliest film in the series and still not much is known on it. I am not sure if it will have any links to the Enterprise series (the one Star Trek I can say I know almost nothing about), but it will be linked to the original series; as it features the principal characters from the original series in their early voyages.

At 150 million dollars, it is by far the most expensive Star Trek film. Nemesis, in comparison, had a budget of 60 million; First Contact (the Borg one) had a budget of 45 million.

Some notable actors:
Karl Urban (Julius Caesar - Hercules/Xena, Eomer - Lord of the Rings) is playing McCoy.

Eric Bana plays Nero, who is a villain, I assume by the name that he is Romulan.

Leonard Nimoy returns for the role of Spock (an older Spock, so I assume that a portion of the story takes place in the TNG era since I believe Spock was supposed to be alive during that time).

<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/">More cast details</a>


I am personally expecting that this film will be to Star Trek what Casino Royale 2006 was to Bond.

[Eric]

I dunno Seek, Sci-Fi movies can be a fickle thing with popularity/audiences unless it's staring Will Smith. :p

[Blotus]

I've never been a fan of Star Trek, but I'll see this based on the cast alone. Also features Winona, John Cho, and Simon fucking Pegg.

[RentCavalier]

It's got a good cast, but there's just no info right now. I can't say if I'm gonna go see it or not until I see more about what it's tone is gonna be and what the story is gonna be like.

[Zeus]

J.J. Abrahms (sp?) is doing it, so it's a download for me.

[Eric]

J.J. Abrahms (sp?) is doing it, so it's a download for me.

What isn't a download for you? lol.

Honestly, "Guys Zeus is downloading something!" "Word?" "Err yes."

[SineSwiper]

Well, ticket prices keep increasing (remember when $6 was normal?), so I don't blame him.

Anyway, I don't have too much faith in this because they have driven the fucking series to the ground already. Roddenberry is on a spin cycle six feet under. (Sorry, I couldn't think of a "ashes in space" joke there...)

[Zeus]

Hold on, now, I go and see plenty of movies in theatres. Not sure what's going on down there but up here, there's been a major correction in the market. In my city, there is no theatre more than $10 anymore, and that's just one: Galaxy. The old Silver City - now Empire Records - has a similar screen and digital projectors and it maxes out at $9, $8 for matinees, which is my preferred time to view movies. We have another theatre close to me that's $6.50. The independant one I go to for the "smaller" films is $7 with a $10 yearly membership ($10 without). But they get the stuff no one else gets.

These prices are reasonable IMO. What's been keeping me away from theatres has actually been the quality of films. I did go and see a lot of the blockbusters this year (Shrek 3 and Transformers being the only ones I didn't) but there really was nothing since about September I wanted to go see other than Rambo 4. No one would go with me so after 3 weeks of trying, I just grabbed the screener and watched it. It was the same with No Country, We Own The Night, and Darjeeling Limited. I really wanted to go but my one bud who's into those types of films works nights and we just never got together. And if there's one thing I hate it's going to the theaters on my own.

I do have to admit I was surprised by a lot of films that I wasn't really interested in otherwise. I still have to see a few others that seemed interesting too.

It really boils down to perceived lack of quality and someone to actually go with me than anything else. Costs are reasonable. But when Iron Man and Indiana Jones come out, my wife will have my nuts if I don't take her.