Star Wars Episode VII wraps!

Star Wars Episode VII has OFFICIALLY WRAPPED! That sentence gets me so excited, it means we are getting even closer to the release! The cast and crew finished their last day of filming at Pinewood Studios, the end of production was signed off with a heart warming thank you card from Director J J Abrams himself;

To the Extraordinary Cast and Crew of Episode VII:
It is a true honor and absolute joy to come to set every day and work alongside each of you. Your professionalism, passion and patience is more deeply appreciated than we could ever express. From the deserts of Abu Dhabi, to the Forest of Dean, to the stages of Pinewood, you have risen to every challenge and been as wonderfully kind as you are brilliantly talented. Our ambition here is large, of course, and it must be: we are here to make a film that entertains millions of people, of all ages, for generations. To create an experience people will cherish watching as much as we will cherish having made it, together. How lovely it would be if you had, in addition to your name on the screen, some actual real tangible proof that you were part of it! Here, then, is that proof. Wear it well, wear it healthily, wear it proudly. But, mostly, thank you.
With Love, JJ Abrams Kathleen Kennedy Bryan Burke 

Check out the gallery here from ComingSoon.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" posters

So we have two new posters for J.J. Abrams upcoming instalment in the Star Trek franchise "Star Trek Into Darkness". Firstly we have a "cinemosaic" poster, first one I have ever seen an it is safe to say I like them a lot. The second poster is of the Enterprise going down, and going down hard it is.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" pictures courtesy of Empire

Empire magazine have done it again, they have released some beautiful pictures for the upcoming instalment in the Star Trek franchise. They are having a special fold-out cover for their next issue featuring J.J. Abrams and the cast of "Star Trek Into Darkness" plus they have given us two new stills from the film plus some little tech savvy genius' have discovered a new picture using the Star Trek app. Scanning the magazine cover unlocks a third still with a bit of Starfleet machinery simply designated MC-9321.

What is MC-9321 you may ask? I haven't got a clue, but if I had to guess (bare in mind I have no previous knowledge of the Star Trek universe) I would have to go with an unmanned craft of some sort. If you have any ideas of what it could be, let us know in the comments section. I would love to hear what you think.

J.J. Abrams on leaked Superman treatment

J.J. Abrams may be the man bringing us the new Star Wars and Star Trek films, but in another alternate time line he may have been the man bringing Superman back to the big screen. In a recent interview with Empire he spoke about Superman Flyby his take on the Kal-El story.

"The thing that I tried to emphasise in the story was that if the Kents found this boy, Kal-El, who had the power that he did, he would have most likely killed them both in short order, and the idea that these parents would see – if they were lucky to survive long enough – that they had to immediately begin teaching this kid to limit himself and to not be so fast, not be so strong, not be so powerful."

"The result of that, psychologically, would be fear of oneself, self-doubt and being ashamed of what you were capable of," he went on to say. "Extrapolating that to adulthood became a fascinating psychological profile of someone who was not pretending to be Clark Kent, but who was Clark Kent. Who had become that kind of a character who is not able or willing to accept who he was and what his destiny was."

"The idea in the movie was that he became Superman because he realised he had to finally own his strength and what he’d always been. I don’t know if that’s what Zack and Chris [Nolan] are doing, but it looks like that’s part of the idea and I could not be more thrilled to see that movie. That to me was always the way to go,"

Is it just me or does that sound a lot like "Smallville"? Well minus the death of Martha and Jonathan

New International trailer for "Star Trek Into Darknes"

So here it is, my first post using my beautiful new laptop ha. I realise that I haven't posted on here in nearly a week, but we are back and using better equipment. Anyway, back to why we're here, let's check out the new trailer for "Star Trek Into Darkness".
"When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew."

Frank Oz willing to return as Yoda

With all the Star Wars talk news floating round lately, I am extremely excited to be talking about this but it is no surprise that Yoda's name is constantly on peoples lips. Reports are suggesting that Yoda could return for the new trilogy, my guess will be as a spirit. Regardless where Yoda appears, Frank Oz is excited and ready to return as Yoda. It would be pretty great to see a Jedi or even Luke getting some guidance from a spirit version of Yoda, I would prefer it if they focused on a Yoda spin-off. Yoda is one of the only main characters who doesn't seem to have a background or even a confirmed race according to George Lucas himself .


"If Oz does return, we probably shouldn’t expect to see any of his puppeteering work. In the more recent Star Wars movies, Yoda went fully CGI, although Oz still provided his voice. Luckily, the experienced puppeteer doesn’t feel bitter about this. He explained:

“I think it depends on the story, but I think at this point you can’t go back to the puppet. The reason George [Lucas] did the CGI, which I supported, was that he wanted to tell a story that would have been hampered by the physical limitations of the puppet.”"

Star Wars getting spin offs?

Reports are suggesting that Disney are looking to make two spin off films within the Star Wars universe, these two films are going to focus on Han Solo & Boba Fett. The Han Solo film has been said to focus on "on the wisecracking smuggler’s origin story" while Boba Fett's feature is described as "bounty hunter adventure".

Bob Iger said in a recent interview;
"There has been speculation about some stand-alone films that have been in development and I can confirm to you today that in fact we are working on a few stand-alone films... We still plan to make Star Wars 7, 8, 9 roughly over a six-year period of time starting in 2015 but there are going to be a few other films released in that period too."

According to the report the Han Solo film will take place between "Revenge Of The Sith" and "A New Hope", while the Boba Fett film will take place between "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return Of The Jedi". This would leave the films open the return of some beloved characters that aren't yet dead within the story arc like, Darth Vader.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" new photos

Entertainment Weekly have been nice enough to give us a sneak peak at some pictures for the upcoming "Star Trek Into Darkness", they are pretty good pictures but don't seem to give anything away.

"Star Wars: Episode VII" update

Well where do we start, since Walt Disney announced that they had acquired Lucasfilm back in October and they announced they were continuing the Star Wars franchise. The question on nearly everybody lips has been who will direct the first film? Well, yesterday we found out that the incredibly talented J. J. Abrams will be at the helm.

 If you aren't familiar with his work, where the heck have you been ha, here is an insight to the films an TV shows he has had parts in. J. J. has been co-creator of such of icon shows as "Lost", "Alias" & "Fringe" and films like "Armageddon", "Cloverfield" & "Star Trek"(2009) so you can see he has an affiliation to the Science Fiction world, so personally I think he is a great fit for the film. A lot of people moan about his usage of lens flare, which at times is annoying it really did wind me up at time when watching "Star Trek" at times it became hard to watch, but the film was great. The only downfall to J. J. Abrams to directing is his approach to marketing he likes to keep things under wrap and not leak much.

We also know that Michael Arndt s writing the screenplay for the film, he doesn't have a huge background behind him he did write the screenplays for Oscar winning "Little Miss Sunshine" and Oscar nominated "Toy Story 3". So with his first ever film he won an Oscar and his second film was nominated for one, good sign? Bad sign?

Star Wars old boy Lawrence Kasdan is returning franchise, he an fellow screenwriter Simon Kinberg are writing scripts for films that will either serve as Episode VII sequels or spin offs that will feature other characters, kind of like "The Avengers" lead up films would be my guess.

There is also a rumour that Zack Snyder the man behind DCs next big project "Man Of Steel" is set to direct a spin off film within the Star Wars universe. Whether there is any truth to this we don't know yet, lets see how well he does with "Man Of Steel" first before we get too excited.

BREAKING NEWS J.J. Abrams to direct...

"Star Wars: Episode VII"!!! This is the best movie news I've heard since I started this blog if its true, TheWrap are going with an exclusive that Walt Disney Productions and Lucasfilm have hired him to direct the upcoming film, they are also saying that Ben Affleck was in contention to direct thankfully they passed on him.

Back in November, Abrams commented on him possibly directing the film an it sounded like it might happen, looks like that day has come true!
"Look, Star Wars is one of my favorite movies of all time. I frankly feel that – I almost feel that, in a weird way, the opportunity for whomever it is to direct that movie, it comes with the burden of being that kind of iconic movie and series. I was never a big Star Trek fan growing up, so for me, working on Star Trek didn’t have any of that, you know, almost fatal sacrilege, and so, I am looking forward more then anyone to the next iterations of Star Wars, but I believe I will be going as a paying moviegoer!"

"Star Trek Into Darkness" images

Are you guys ready for some pictures of "Star Trek Into Darkness"? Good because Paramount just released some new pictures.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" poster

Here is the first official teaser poster for the upcoming Star Trek movie "Star Trek Into Darkness", the general reaction is "haven't they copied The Dark Knight?" An if I'm being 100% honest I can see why they are asking that, it does have a Nolan-esque feel about it.

I personally don't like the poster, it doesn't shout "Star Trek" when I see it. But that doesn't take away from how excited I am for this movie, growing up I didn't really like the Star Trek franchise but it was always on television due to my Dad's obsession ha ha. So earlier this year I watched "Star Trek" from 2009 an the film was incredible, if you haven't seen it I highly recommend you do then go see this one next May when it hits the big screen.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" synopsis?

I've been a posting a bit about this film, but it is a bit disappointing how little we actually know about this film. We know that all the cast is returning with the addition of Benedict Cumberbatch as the villain other than that, what do we actually know? A HUGE thanks to whoever decided to leak this synopsis;

"In Summer 2013, pioneering director J.J. Abrams will deliver an explosive action thriller that takes Star Trek Into Darkness. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.
With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew."

Action packed? Not something I would personally relate to a Star Trek film, they are more for the thinking movie fan than they are for the movie fan who wants to switch their brain off and relax. I'm not implying that the film is doomed before it's release, but it is a very strange phrase used to describe the movie.

"Star Trek 2" first set photo's

Hard to believe we're only just getting set photo's from "Star Trek 2" it was nearly two months ago that I blogged saying the film was going into production. Better late than never I guess, the shots seem to show Zoe Saldana wielding some sort of ray-gun and we see Spock doing the famous "Vulcan Grip". There is also a video on YouTube showing the fight scene being filmed in front of the green screen, scroll down past the pictures to check it out.

"Star Trek 2" begins production

Paramount Pictures announced yesterday that production had begun on the untitled "Star Trek" sequel.

"Paramount Pictures announced that principal photography has commenced in Los Angeles, CA on the sequel to STAR TREK from director J.J. Abrams. The film will be released on May 17, 2013 in 3D. The 2009 re-launch of the "Star Trek" franchise by Abrams was met with critical acclaim and a worldwide gross of over $385 million at the box office.

Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions present a Bad Robot Production of a J.J. Abrams Film. Returning to their posts on the Enterprise are John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, and Anton Yelchin. They are joined by new cast members Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve and Peter Weller.

Based upon "Star Trek" created by Gene Roddenberry, the film is produced by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The script was written by Alex Kurtzman & Robert Orci & Damon Lindelof.

Jeffrey Chernov, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Paul Schwake are the executive producers. The director of photography is Dan Mindel, ASC, BSC. The production designer is Scott Chambliss. The film is edited by Maryann Brandon, A.C.E. and Mary Jo Markey, A.C.E. The costume designer is Michael Kaplan. The music is by Michael Giacchino."