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| The bright and speedy IMAX poster for the upcoming STAR TREK BEYOND. Images: PARAMOUNT. |
They bravely fought against the ambitions of the
enigmatic but mad, timeline-altering Romulan, Nero, followed not so long after
by the almost overwhelming mental and physical abilities of the thawed-out
eugenics superhuman, Khan. Now the gutsy, if still a little reckless Captain
James T. Kirk (played with a drive by Chris Pine to match that of William Shatner's),
the logical Mister Spock (Zachary Quinto- a worthy successor to the much-missed Leonard Nimoy),
and his youthful and surprising crew of Starfleet's finest starship, the U.S.S.
Enterprise, find themselves in a whole new realm of danger at the other end
of the universe- their once blistering confidence and enthusiasm as galactic
explorers within an all-new five years mission into the stars now seeing them
isolated, vulnerable and truly on their own against a whole new alien species
that doesn't take kindly to trespassers, as the third film in the revitalised
and genuinely modern popcorn audience luring STAR TREK series - STAR TREK
BEYOND - beams into cinemas this July.
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| Chris Pine returns as Captain James T. Kirk. |
Prior caught in limbo exhaustion, its films never
properly given the production budgets and support they deserved, J.J. Abrams
brought a modern appeal, certain emotional depth and heaps of fun back to the
revived cinematic franchise back in 2009 in his first epic outing playing with
the unique characters and toys of Gene Roddenberry's acclaimed universe, then
brought further action adrenaline excitement whilst pumping up the threat
levels and character conflict with his sequel, INTO DARKNESS, in 2011. Justin
Lin, a slick visualist in his own right, a key contributor to the success of
the popular THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS films, a key friend of Abrams, now takes
the director’s chair of STAR TREK BEYOND- and having been a huge fan of the
series since childhood- will hopefully turn the potential worries of a script
written, and re-written, by a collective team of five authors (always a bad
sign!) into something exciting, memorable and, above all else, worthy of the TREK legacy for this
year's impressive Fiftieth Anniversary. The idea of finally seeing the
characters at the start of their original five-year mission is a noteworthy
one, and we're sincerely hoping that the core troika of Kirk, Spock and McCoy,
so beloved from the original series, finally cements itself with actors Pine,
Qunto and Karl Urban, though not to the point of stopping the series key support
in Zoe Saldana's Uhura, Anton Yelchin as Chekov, and John Cho as Sulu, from
getting equally deserved strong material of their own. Lin's impressive,
heavy-hitting casting of LUTHER star Idris Elba as the new film's bulky alien
villain, Krall (looking rather like BABYLON 5's intimidating Ambassador
G'Kar!), will hopefully adding further weight, alongside a striking, and rather
nifty, new wardrobe look for our heroes and their Federation technology.
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| Idris Elba's Krall leads an attack on the Enterprise. |
That “Final Frontier” of human adventure, endurance
and emotion does indeed beckon as STAR TREK BEYOND arrives in US cinemas from
July 22nd, 2016. And let’s hope that, like the STAR WARS saga
itself, this franchise’s unique all-new journeys continue for a good while yet…
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