CinemaCon Presentation For STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS And WORLD WAR Z

CinemaCon Presentation For STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS And WORLD WAR Z

Paramount didn't release any of the footage shown to investors and audience members but we do hear from Star Trek's Damon Lindelof, Chris Pine, Alice Eve and others. Plus, Brad Pitt on World War Z.

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By MarkJulian - Apr 16, 2013 05:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Trek
Source: Paramount

In the below video, (thanks to Paramount Pictures) we have some of the cast and crew of Star Trek Into Darkness on the CinemaCon stage to discuss the challenges and fun of shooting the Star Trek sequel film, as directed by J.J. Abrams. Also, the latter portion of the video features Brad Pitt as he talks briefly about World War Z.




If Pitt ever wanted to add to his resume and turn pro-wrestler, he's already got theme music!

Star Trek Into Darkness poster

Running Time: In post-production
Release Date: May 17 2013 (USA)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (probable)
Starring: Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zachary Quinto John Cho, Peter Weller, Karl Urban and Chris Pine
Directed by: JJ Abrams
Written by: Alex Kurtzman (screenplay), Damon Lindelof (screenplay),Roberto Orci (screenplay), Gene Roddenberry (tv series "Star Trek")

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.


Running Time: In post-production
Release Date: June 2013 (USA)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (probable)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Matthew Fox, James Badge Dale, Bryan Cranston, Ed Harris
Directed by: Marc Forster
Written by: Matthew Michael Carnahan (screenplay), Damon Lindelof (screenplay), Drew Goddard (screenplay)

United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Mireille Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Daniella Kertesz is his comrade in arms, Segen.”



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RamonSuarez
RamonSuarez - 4/16/2013, 6:13 AM
This World War Z will suck major balls.

The original Max Brooks book was a thoughtful, provocative satire on human corruptibility which had something meaningful to say against the institutional incompetence we've come to accept in our contemporary world.

This film looks likes another roided zombie/virus movie that's become all the rage since 28 Days Later hit the theaters. What else do you expect with a hack like Lindelof handling the script?
Tempo
Tempo - 4/16/2013, 6:17 AM
Damon Lindelof

I'v said all.
ParisSun
ParisSun - 4/16/2013, 6:20 AM
On the contrary, with Carnahan, Lidelof and Goddard writing on WWZ, you wonder how this movie got away from everyone. I guess it happens sometimes.
RamonSuarez
RamonSuarez - 4/16/2013, 6:26 AM
LOL. Lindelhof is shit. He already ruined Prometheus. How do you figure he'd make the movie script any good?
MarkJulian
MarkJulian - 4/16/2013, 6:30 AM
Lindelof was hired to polish the script for the end of the film so he only worked on a 1/3 of it. And Goddard reportedly rewrote some of that too, so really less than that. The film became a head-scratcher much earlier on when they decided to stray so far from the documentary type structure of the book.
stevebrt
stevebrt - 4/16/2013, 6:42 AM
Hopefully in a few years we'll get a proper faithful adaption of World War Z preferably a mini series on HBO
RamonSuarez
RamonSuarez - 4/16/2013, 6:47 AM
@MarkJulian

It wasn't just the decision to move away from the documentary format that ruins this movie. Its the fact that Brad Pitt's production company decided to rearrange the basic plot in Brooks' book from a UN lead oral history project made AFTER the zombie World War into a race against time/find the cure virus film taking place during the actual conflict. What was supposed to be a ponderous, introspective, and thoughtful story weaving multiple perspectives across time and space became a stupid CGI oriented thriller.
RamonSuarez
RamonSuarez - 4/16/2013, 6:57 AM
Serious, its films like these which get me especially worked up because they reveal how stupid Hollywood thinks American audiences really are. I love a simple comic book film that doesn't pretend to be anything more than just fun, entertaining pulp the way Marvel does it. But World War Z was actually the type of a novel which could have been more than a vanilla zombie virus movie. It had the potential to be a serious piece of satire on many of the problems facing human civilization in the 21st century using the metaphor of a zombie virus to make its point. Instead, Pitt's production took a really well written piece of fiction that had something very meaningful to say and made it so generic that they didn't even need to use the novel at all to produce their movie.
HipsterAngelusNY
HipsterAngelusNY - 4/16/2013, 7:42 AM
WHERES MAN OF STEEL TRAILER :(
HanBurgundy
HanBurgundy - 4/16/2013, 8:49 AM
The new Star Trek Trailer is up at apple.com! Check it out!!!
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/16/2013, 9:13 AM
can't wait for star trek into darkness :)

as for world war z more like world war zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 4/16/2013, 9:16 AM
@ theShocker I have found you proof of Major Balls

NateBest
NateBest - 4/16/2013, 9:19 AM
Jim and I saw about 10 minutes of World War Z here at CinemaCon last night and it looks pretty incredible, even if it doesn't follow the book. Brad Pitt's character is trying to track down patient zero during the outbreak, rather than interview people after the fact.

The 18-20 minutes of Star Trek onto darkness was AMAZING.

Can't wait for both of these films to hit :-)
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/16/2013, 10:18 AM
@ NateBest

the problem i have with the movie is you can't have a zombie movie without blood & guts they go together hand in hand.

in the ten minutes you saw was there any blood in it.
NateBest
NateBest - 4/16/2013, 10:51 AM
There were zombies attacking people, biting, etc., but it wasn't a blood bath. With it being PG-13, I don't know how gory it will get... What we saw was much more intense than typical/shambling zombies...

I was actually VERY impressed by what we saw. The zombies looked amazing as well.
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