A quick switch of gears as there is no news on the 1-18-08 front since the Tagruato (see Cloverfield Has Its Hanso) site updated last week. In J.J. Abrams-related news, Abrams is keeping busy with his latest movie and it isn't 1-18-08.The much anticipated Star Trek movie due out late next year is produced by Abrams Bad Robot Productions as well as being directed by Abrams. Most of the creative crew of 1-18-08 will be used on the Star Trek project as well.
I'm a big fan of Abrams, as you may have guessed by now, and I'm excited to see if he can bring back the excitement to a stale Star Trek franchise. I also wonder if he will use any viral marketing like 1-18-08 for the movie or even if he will stick the trailer for Star Trek into the opening week of 1-18-08.
Abrams has made some interesting choices in casting the Star Trek crew that got a boost today when the Hollywood Reporter announced the casting of Sulu and Scotty. The biggest name up to now was the casting of Zachary Quinto (Heroes) as a young Spock.
John Cho, who played Harold in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, has been cast as Sulu, and Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) is set to play Scotty. Earlier this week, Eric Bana (Hulk, Munich) was cast as the villian, Nero.
Pegg has experience with Abrams already after having a small role as tech wizard Benji in Mission: Impossible III, the only other major motion picture Abrams has directed.
Cho appeared in one episode of Felicity which was directed by 1-18-18's Matt Reeves (1 of 5 he directed) and written by J.J. Abrams.
See Final frontier for Cho, Pegg>
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