It looks like everyone is taking Christopher Nolan’s approach to sequels these days. One of the writers of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek 2 is Damon Lindelof (“Lost“), and he was recently juiced for info from the folks at EOnline about what we can expect from the new film. The response he gave was of epic, four star, critically acclaimed proportions…
Zoe Saldana will be hitting the big screen this weekend with the comic adaptation The Losers, after quietly appearing in last week’s Death at a Funeral. Over the past year she’s appeared in two major blockbusters Avatar and Star Trek and even though everyone loved the romance between Jake Sully and Neytiri we’re eager to find out if Uhura and Spock will eventually get it on. Saldana seems to think something might happen…
Avatar and Star Trek are two high profile films that debuted to plenty of fanfare in 2009. They made a boatload of money and now have highly anticipated sequels set for release in the near future. Besides commercial and critical success another thing both films share is actress Zoe Saldana. She played Lt. Uhura in Star Trek and Neyteri in Avatar, and when asked which sequel she thinks will come first she admitted that Star Trek’s in the lead.
The winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Make-Up goes to Star Trek. Was there any doubt that this film would win in this category? Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow accepted the award on behalf of the film and thanked director JJ Abrams for keeping them inspired and Paramount Pictures for supporting them every step of the way.
See who they beat out this year in the Best Make-Up category…
The first thing you’ll notice when you look at this list of nominees is that there are many glaring omissions. Most notably, current Best Original Screenplay front-runner Inglorious Basterds. Not to worry, Tarantino fans, Basterds failed to qualify under WGA rules, which require scripts to be written for productions that are signatories to the guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement, or the agreement of affiliated international guilds.
Other big-time Oscar contenders for screenplay awards that didn’t meet these requirements include District 9, An Education, In The Loop, Fantastic Mr. Fox, A Single Man and Up.
Trekkies from all over can unite knowing that another major development has been made regarding Star Trek 2. So far, we’ve heard about the preliminary script updates, and the the major cast members returning to reprise there roles in the film. According to ComingSoon, Paramount Pictures has recently released a star…..I mean release date for the anticipated sequel.
Following the suit of Oscar, the Producers Guild has expanded their nominee list to ten films this year, and that move has yielded a few surprises.
Sci-Fi crowd favorites Star Trek and District 9 found their way onto the Guild’s shortlist along with the requisite cadre of prestige pictures and critical darlings to round out the rest of the top ten. Notably absent from the list is Nine, whose Oscar hopes are fading fast.
Will Oscar follow the PGA’s lead and use its ten slots to throw in a few movies that audiences liked as well as critics? We’ll have to wait and see.
Check out all the nominees below. . .
For all of you Trekkies who found your sci-fi faith restored with JJ Abrams take on the classic Gene Roddenberry property, we’ve got some good news for you. It’s no secret that a Star Trek sequel is on the horizon, it’s just a matter of when it will begin production and when it will actually hit theaters. Thanks to one of the film’s co-stars we finally have the answer to both those questions.
This past summer, Leonard Nimoy appeared in JJ Abrams‘ Star Trek reboot as his iconic character Mr. Spock alongside his replacement Zachary Quinto. A lot of us thought that William Shatner would do the same and reprise his role as Captain Kirk, but were disappointed when it didn’t happen. It turns out that the actor was written into the original screenplay, and a scene featuring Shatner has been dug up for all to see.