Aug 27 2008
Movie Bits: Twilight & Star Trek
They have called the Twilight cast back to the set to shoot even more scenes for the film set for release in November. These aren’t reshoots, but entirely new scenes meant to spice up the movie according to Peter Facinelli, one of the stars of the movie. These shoots will not change things as far as the day of the film’s release. That date was moved up a couple of weeks ago when Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was pushed back to a July release date.
In Star Trek news, JJ Abrams has now made it clear that the original Captain James T. Kirk will not make an appearance in this next Star Trek movie. William Shatner will not be joining Nimoy as was once rumored. The film is still being worked on, and Abrams says the final cut of the movie is only weeks away. Star Trek XI stars Zoe Saldana, Eric Bana, Chris Pine and a many others. It will be released on May 8, 2009.
I don’t know how I feel about them still adding to the movie so close to the release. I suppose if they’re bringing it closer to the book, great, but if it’s just extraneous stuff that never happens on paper, what the heck is the point?