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blogs ONLINE: Mr. Abrams, after ten films and five TV series was the vast expanse of the "Star Trek" universe as explored, and the brand as a commercial dead What attracted you to restart?
Abrams: The honest answer is: Because there was never a "Star Trek" movie was how I presented it to me and would like to view. I am not the work of my predecessors devalue. I have eternal respect for Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the original series. But the material still has so much untapped potential! A Bond movie I would have never shot, because the 007-series classic so many years, I guarantee that nothing better could add. With "Star Trek" was the bar lower. However, I was never a serious fan or Trekker.
blogs ONLINE: Is it not more Trekkies?
Abrams: Tell not too loud - the hard fans hate it when they trivialized! One of them also counted as an expert on the inner circle of people who helped me in developing the concept helped chronologically backwards to travel and the beginnings of the characters to light. This decision was the key: We had thus narrative carte blanche and an organic integration into the mythology evolved over decades. I believe that the chances are very good, old and new viewers for "Star Trek" to inspire.
blogs ONLINE: You said in an interview that the optimism in science fiction cinema cool again want to do. What do you mean?
Abrams: We have in genre cinema for years just cynical movies about pre-or postapokalyptische seen worlds, all somber in tone. No question: Some were brilliant and incredibly successful. But I wanted to avoid this route and to me the original series, which is based on a pioneering spirit. Explorers are not cynics. You are at the heart fortschrittsgläubig and optimistic.
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blogs ONLINE: Optimistic is your approach a film with no stars to rotate.
Abrams: I have been at "Lost" and "Alias" very good experiences with this, unknown actor to fill the audience became darlings have developed. Of course the risk is greater, a film on the shoulders of relative newcomers to attend. But I am firmly of the quality of our crew convinced - and the real star is already the spaceship Enterprise.
blogs ONLINE: In the casting phase, you have expressed a desire to Russell Crowe as a baddie to fill.
Abrams: I admire Russell's work, and sometimes my enthusiasm with me through. We discussed the role, but he had to consider that "Star Trek" on the way to the Russell Crowe movie would be - and quite right. Now we have Eric Bana, also an acting heavyweight. However, under a mask, which is so good that it is not even Steven Spielberg has recognized. He asked after his presentation, who this actor was interesting. They have both "Munich" with one another shot!
blogs ONLINE: Many films burst event today before special effects and stun the audience with a review values. Should we do so?
Abrams: No, no man today is more of a huge explosion or a spaceship herumflitzenden impressed if he is not about the characters in this space provides. That was my mandate: First, the characters, then the visual orientation. Our "Star Trek" a Kirk and Spock movie about the difficult beginning of a friendship - and incidentally a science-fiction epic. We also have over a thousand elements with computer settings. But they are the garnish, not the meat of the film.
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blogs ONLINE: How do you find your next movies still time for your current series "Lost" and "Fringe"?
Abrams: I did with "Lost" have nothing more to do and know the show is in the hands of extremely talented colleagues. With "Fringe" I occasionally help a little with plot ideas. But my focus is and will now focus on filmmaking addressed.
blogs ONLINE: In the movie seem a weakness for series to have substance. Where is this preference?
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Abrams: I am fascinated as Filmfan characters to which you have an extended period of time builds a relationship of trust. As a director it irritates me the most, tried to break formulas and those spectators by surprise, which is already one million movies and knows every twist guessed. Sub-conscious is in me seems to be the fan of "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" by. I loved it as a youth, these figures for new adventures and to accompany their changes to be amazed. Take only the transformation of Luke Skywalker in the course of three films! That would be in two hours time narrative impossible. Even George Lucas and Steven Spielberg could be derived from their love of the series inspired by her youth.
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Jeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams, 1966 born, was his first feature film with the same Star-Power in the back twist: Tom Cruise himself to be the TV producer, writer and director for "Mission: Impossible 3" (2006) have hired only after a number of consequences of the Abrams - Series "Alias" hellauf was thrilled.
Also for the cult series "Lost" and "Fringe" drew the self-confessed "Star Wars" - and "Star Trek" - Fan responsibility. Abrams' reinvention of "Star Trek" is the eleventh movie in the series, based on the sci-fi series based on the 1966 to 1969 for the U.S. television was produced. Abrams already announced, including another film with the new Enterprise crew to be available.
blogs ONLINE: What you hear, you have a close relationship with Spielberg.
Abrams: He's over the years into a real friend and mentor, has become, not bad times is when I him with e-mails full of questions about his work Bombardier. His class makes me ready to go! He shakes on the set spontaneously scenes from the sleeve in which it is the smallest area while filming five settings - and you have yourself as a professional no idea where the cameras are hidden. The complexity of his film language is someone who is solely and sanded with six-syllable words parliert.
blogs ONLINE: Can they influence your work on the example of "Star Trek" explain?
Abrams: First of all, I am sitting here without him. I wanted to "Star Trek" originally produced. Only when my wife and shortly afterwards Steven read the script and declared mentally for me, if I do a cool story would not be staged, was a light on me. Later Steven saw a rough and sent a couple of pages of detailed notes. Time he found a sequence of twenty seconds too long, then again, he suggested changes in the sequence before cutting. Any comment that was marginally, but overall his ideas helped the film to a better rhythm. Because of course, his arguments were impressive - in addition to him we are all apprentices in the film company (laughs).
blogs ONLINE: As a producer of your own movies, you are also with the economic aspects of the industry well. What does the global crisis for Hollywood?
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Abrams: There is everything to the test. Every budget, every Gage, everyone's status. This caution is already leading to a steep increase of cooperation of the major studios. Super Expensive films are now widely supported by several partners gestemmt. Then they have to share in their profits, but reduce the risk of flops. But compared to other industries, the film business is quite healthy. The audience figures in the U.S. speak a clear language: The people stream in each stage, such as economic decline reinforced the cinema, where she also distraction besides the feeling of inspiration and hope are looking for.
blogs ONLINE: Finally something else: How did you actually the "South Park" parody of the film "Cloverfield" dropped in the monster of the film by a giant hamster has been replaced?
Abrams: From the best satirist in the U.S. television perceived to be in Hollywood as a modern knighthood! I have tears of laughter, how clever they are loose on the camera in "Cloverfield" have fun. The best part: You have not reason and ground, but were almost lovingly. And from the "South Park" boy a tiny bit more to be respected, is notoriously less likely than an Oscar win.
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