Elf Witch said:
Just a little nitpick if you read the transcript from Comiccon Abrams said he was more a Star Wars fan than a Trek fan. But we all can't be perfect.
Right, but he has also said, repeatedly, that he was a huge fan of the original series. What is it about everyone who works on Trek having to establish their bonafides? No one asked Christian Bale how big a freaking Batman fan he was, and the movie was fine.
I also read in that interview that he didn't write the script. That he saw the script and showed it to his wife and she liked it.
Right, the script was written by his two close friends, who are also writers and producers on his TV Show lost. He was already attached as a producer at that point, and had a lot of input on the script before it was written.
He just waited to commit himself to direct. But this has been his movie since day one.
JJ Abrams is the REASON for the movie. It was the studio's desire to work with him, and his passion for this movie, that we have to thank for it being made in the first place.
I am going to be wary until we actually know more and the film comes out. I would rather be pleasantly surprised than disappointed.
Everyone all along as stressed that it is not a remake. It's a story starring Kirk and Spock set in the TOS era that we haven't seen, in the established continuity, by a creative team with a passion for Trek.
It's also being made by a director and writing team with a enough juice, that for the first time in several decades, serious blockbuster type money is being spent on trek. They've cast a great young Spock from one of the hottest shows on TV, and gotten Nimoy on board.
And you're freaking "Wary"?
We should be freaking dancing. A real director, and a real writing team got a big-budget trek movie out of a studio that wanted to let the property lie fallow for a decade.
If that doesn't make a trek fan happy, or at least something better than freaking "wary", we obviously don't freaking deserve a movie.
Nimoy has read the script and has great things to say about. He also is the one man who has walked away from money for Trek in the past, because he didn't like the script (he turned down a part in Generations, for example).
Sure it could be dumb. But it's hard to see what else we could ASK from the movie at this stage.
Anyway, call me an optimist. I'd rather look at the very hopeful signs we've seen so far and be hopeful, rather than trying to be as pessimistic as possible so I don't need to endure the stinging pain of disappointment later on.
