Star Trek

Posted on 13/05/2009 in Homepage 3, Specials

A new voyage in the world of Star Trek, the greatest space adventure, is now on Italian screens. The saga is now a cult and it continues with this new and eleventh episode directed by J.J. Abrams (Mission Impossible III, Lost and Alias) and the screenplay by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (Transformers, Mission Impossible III).

The Star Trek science fiction saga has begun on 1966 with the tv series by Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek has been the  setting of  other five tv series and eleven feature films. The movie now released tells the adventures of the characters when they were young on board the U.S.S. Enterprise. Star Trek is a film prequel to the previous series and feature films, and it has a a very “Lost” style, since the direction is by Abrams.
In this movie James Tiberius Kirk is a rebel boy from Iowa who, with the rational and inscrutable Spock, coming from the Vulcan planet, will begin his first interstellar voyage.

Special effects

The movie has a lot of amazing special effects by a Industrial Light & Magic staff led by sfx supervisor Roger Guyett who  collaborated with Abrams for Mission Impossible III. Abrams avoided shooting only against bluescreen, so each movie departments have collaborated in this complex work in which the computer graphics is combined with real sets and live-action explosions for a greater realism of the movie and the acting.
Roger Guyett says: “We had a lot of production meetings, breaking each scene down to its components parts, trying to figure out what we could create later and what we had to shoot far real. It was a huge puzzle”.

Also designers and scenographers have made a good and in-depht work to maintain the traditional look of Star Trek, from objects to sets, and, at the same time, to renew the futuristic aspects.
ILM has uses lots of different pieces of software, a lot of ILM proprietary tools, but also Maya, Renderman and Shake (the compositing software).

The movie has been realized in anamorphic widescreen to reproduce the expance of the space.

Videos and interviews
An interview with J.J. Abrams
The official website
Movie featurettes