Well, I’m just a fan of "Star Wars." As a kid, "Star Wars" was much more my thing than "Star Trek" was. If you look at the last three "Star Wars" films (meaning: the prequels) and what technology allowed them to do, they covered so much terrain in terms of design, locations, characters, aliens, ships — so much of the spectacle has been done and it seems like every aspect has been covered, whether it’s geography or design of culture or weather system or character or ship type. Everything has been tapped in those movies. The challenge of doing "Star Trek" — despite the fact that it existed before "Star Wars" — is that we are clearly in the shadow of what George Lucas has done.
-JJ Abrams
http://trekmovie.com/2009/01/30/jj-abrams-star-trek-must-break-away-from-the-shadow-of-star-wars/
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My thoughts:
JJ Abrams really does not understand Star Trek or the fact that the Star Wars Prequels are bad.
As a kid I was like JJ ("Star Wars" was much more my thing than "Star Trek" was). Then at 16, I started to watch Star Trek and became a fan of it too. I can see both the trek-fan and non trek-fans sides of things. Star Wars and Star Trek are like the Yin/Yang of space sci-fi. They are opposing forces but the fact is both are rooted together. Star Trek is not in the the shadow of star wars becuase They are opposing forces. The Star Wars Prequels are like bad chi and Star Wars ineffected by them. Now, JJ Abrams is copying The Star Wars Prequels and he will ineffected by them too.
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Some Comments from trekmovie:
7. spock - January 30, 2009
Wonder how he is going to do it, since he is making Star Trek look like Star Wars. JJ is getting to be annoying.
TBonz - January 30, 2009
The last three Star Wars movies sucked. They were visually appearing, but the stories and characters were lacking.
42. JoeR - January 30, 2009
Dude..WHAT?
“Star Trek must escape the shadow of Star Wars”
JJ!!!! You got the guy who works of Star Wars Designs to make the new Enterprise. Pine says he is making Kirk more like Han Solo!
Nero is a guy (In the Comics and the movie) Who Starts out as a good guy and stuff happens to make him bad. Sound like Anakin Skywalker.
So you want to turn Trek into Star Wars (Which you seem to love) and that is how you are going to take trek out of the shadows of Star Wars.
Oh and for people who will say wait and see the movie. Let me tell you this. One if you pay and see the movie..Guess WHAT! Its too late, they have your money. You think they care what you have to say then. They got paid!