From humble beginnings to Hollywood powerhouse, producer
and director Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - Furious 6,
Community, True Detective) has been put in charge of bringing screenwriters
Doug Jung, and Simon Pegg's words to life in the upcoming third entry of the new Star Trek film franchise.
Yahoo! recently caught up with the director while he
was getting ready to place his hands in wet cement just outside of the TLC
Chinese Theater in celebration of its 88th anniversary, and among various other
topics, they asked him why he decided to leave the already well established Furious
franchise to go on and direct Star Trek 3.
"I thought about how much a part of my life Star Trek was," Lin said. "Growing
up, my parents had this little fish and chips restaurant in Anaheim in the
shadows of Disneyland, and they didn’t close until 9 PM. As a family, we didn’t
eat dinner until 10 PM, and we would watch the original Star Trek every night at 11. My dad
worked 364 days a year, only took Thanksgiving off, and from age 8 to 18, the
only time I could hang out with my parents was by staying late. And every
night, it was Star
Trek on
Channel 13 in L.A. That was my childhood. All my friends were Star Wars kids but I didn’t go to the
movies, so I was the Star
Trek kid. Thinking about this, it became a very personal and very
emotional decision."
Lin also very vaguely and very politely addressed some of the
concerns fans have had with the path the franchise is taking by skipping over what
made the TV series great to many eyes.
“As great as JJ’s films were, there’s still a lot to
be mined from these characters," Lin said. "They haven’t really gone
on their five-year mission, so what we experienced in the TV show hasn’t been
touched on yet. That sets up an opportunity for exploration and the deeper you
go, the more you are examining humanity. Those are the things that I absorbed
as a kid and hope to tap into and embrace and celebrate. By the time this movie
comes out, Star Trek will have been around for 50
years."
The
filmmaker wraps things up by teasing that though many want the iconic Klingons,
and Romulans in the upcoming film, it's time go further and create new
cultures.
"It’s all new and
fresh. The Klingons, Romulans and other species are great, but it’s time to go
further. It has been fun to focus on creating whole new worlds and species."
Source - Yahoo
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