After the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005, the Star Trek franchise was effectively dead for wider audiences. For many viewers, the franchise had grown stagnant and uninteresting, but Paramount PIctures still wanted to make another big-screen outing.
However, in order to ensure Star Trek would make a triumphant return, they needed a new team of creatives who would shake things up. And shakes things up, they certainly did in Star Trek (2009).
Even though the franchise was essentially rebooted to meet the modern audience, there were a few things they got right when making the new Star Trek movie.
No Nimoy No Film
Finding new younger actors to take over from such icons was no doubt an unenviable assignment however first and foremost the team needed Leonard Nimoy.
The team had all agreed if Nimoy turned down the offer they would delay filming and rewrite the script before production they met with Nimoy at his house explaining their vision for the film but also how much Nimoy himself meant to them.
When the filmmakers left Nimoy allegedly remained in his chair for some time overwhelmed with emotion he recalled
“This was the first and only time I had ever had a filmmaker tell me we cannot make this without you and we won’t make it without you the script had me genuinely excited by its scope and the details of the characters especially Spock we have dealt with Spock’s being half human half Vulcan but never with quite the overview that this script has”
After some careful consideration, Nimoy was happy to reprise his most famous character.
The Casting
When casting the new film, J.J. Abrams had one job and that was to try to cast actors who would bring the essence of Kirk, Spock and co to life.
When Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Karl Urban were cast to play Kirk, Spock, and Bones he had found his trio and their portrayal was so good that even Leonard Nimoy said Karl Urban’s Star Trek Performance Moved him to tears.
From Zoe Saldana as Uhura to John Cho as Sulu to Anton Yelchin as Chekov, Abrams and co. cast a bunch of fantastic up-and-coming stars to round out Trek’s iconic ensemble.
Great Soundtrack
For the music of the film abrams hired his frequent collaborator Michael Giacchino to create the film’s score unlike Abrams, Giacchino was a Star Trek fan and grew up listening to the music of the shows and movies and so took personal pleasure in scoring Star Trek.
However, rather than bringing back the Jerry Goldsmith or James Horner theme Giacchino decided to create an original theme complemented by Alexander Courage’s original series theme but orchestrated.
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