Where No Star Trek Has Gone Before
Read how ILM was tasked with putting Star Trek on vfx steroids for J.J. Abrams’ bold re-imagining.
J.J. Abrams admits that he’s not a Trekkie — the original Star Trek series and movies were never quite convincing enough for him as space adventures, and he never quite got the cultural vibe either. But, ultimately, he couldn’t resist the opportunity to turn the franchise on its head with more action, zip and scope. In other words, he’s put Star Trek on steroids to tell this origin story about how Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), McCoy (Karl Urban) and the rest of the beloved crew of the Enterprise meet and form the connective tissue of this Utopian phenomenon.
“What I thought was ingenious about our story was its own parallel universe,” Abrams suggests. “It was all about treating it with believability… with reality… [And] it had to work at a higher resolution, not just because of IMAX but [also] because the audience is very sophisticated now and it had to work on a level they didn’t have to worry about in ‘66.” devamını oku…