Crikey, I’m making out TMP to be some kind of classic- how far have we fallen? How low has Star Trek gone?Īs usual, I’ll do a detailed breakdown/discussion after the Blu-ray release as I hate to spoil films, even ones as poor as this one. The shots of the Enterprise driving into Yorktown aren’t about establishing plot or a sense of awe, there’s only a sense of it being more throwaway CGI, something to impress just because they can do it, not because it really means anything. to show the scale of the alien cloud/spacecraft). If the Enterprise looks small in TMP, its for effecting awe (i.e. The Enterprise feels huge in TMP, whereas in Beyond it is dwarfed by just about everything, even driving into Yorktown as if it’s just being driven down the street. Nowhere more so than with the Enterprise herself, a genuine character in TMP. A tension, threat, almost a perverse sense of reality in how the characters and the sets/places/mechanisms are introduced and established. There is a sense of importance to the events in TMP. You see, TMP may be long, slow and a wee bit pretentious, but even today it feels more of an ‘event’ film than something like Beyond. Actually, hold that thought- because that actually works for me when describing how much of a let-down Beyond and so many modern films are. We’ve come a long way from Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. For more on the movie, head here.Here was me thinking that this couldn’t possibly be any worse/more stupid than Star Trek Into Darkness (do these Star Trek reboots have the worst titles imaginable, by the way?) and then Star Trek Beyond goes and proves me wrong. There's more from Pegg and Lin in the next issue of Empire, which is on shelves across various quadrants from April 28. Star Trek Beyond will be in UK cinemas on July 22. We’ll really be poking at a lot of different things.” “I felt like it was important to really deconstruct the idea of Star Trek, the idea of the Federation and why it’s special. “We’re gathering a great community within the galaxy, but to what end? What does it all mean?”Īs for Lin, he, like Krall (without the guns or nasty attitude) is also in a dismantling mood. “What’s the point of it all?” says Pegg of the big question that drives Kirk and co this time around. “They’ve come to rest at a Federation outpost, a sort of diplomatic hub,” says Pegg, who worked with Doug Jung on the screenplay.īut their momentary R&R is interrupted by Idris Elba's blue-faced alien antagonist Krall, who instead of showing his distaste for the Federation's ideals and reach through a strongly-worded letter to his local council, decides to unleash violence upon the poor Enterprise and its crew. And, truth be told, the voyage is wearing on them. Abrams, Beyond finds Kirk ( Chris Pine), Spock ( Zachary Quinto), McCoy ( Karl Urban), Uhura ( Zoe Saldana) and the rest two years into their famous five-year mission. Set once more in the rebooted Trek universe established by J.J. It also has Simon Pegg adding co-writer to his duties alongside playing Scotty, and he talks to Empire about the new movie's focus. and some extra action flare from Fast & Furious franchise regular director Justin Lin. It promises a big new threat to the crew of the USS Enterprise. As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations this year, the Star Trek universe welcomes a new film, Star Trek Beyond.
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