Chris Pine Talks Star Trek 2
Nix June 17, 2012
Chris Pine was out and about promoting his upcoming new drama “People Like Us” (written and directed by the guys who wrote his “Star Trek” movies), and of course, the subject of J.J. Abram’s still-untitled “Star Trek” sequel came up. Basically, lots of anticipation, big ass budgets, and from the sounds of it, Pine is just as anxious as the fanboys waiting to see it on how the movie will turn out.
About the anticipation for the sequel, which made $385 million worldwide back in 2009, not to mention the healthy DVD/Blu-ray sales and various merchandises associated with such a geek franchise, Pine tells Collider:
Generally speaking, the more money that’s involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it’s not going to fail. If you’re a part of that process of whether it’s going to fail or succeed, you’re only human and you hope that it does well. But, there’s only so much, as an actor, that you can do. People are either going to respond to it or not, and I would drive myself crazy if I tried to control it anymore than that, other than a really fervent desire that people come and watch it and like it. We at least tried to do a really good job. Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it’s fluffy comedy or a drama. It’s always in the effort of, “Please come, like it, enjoy it, take something away!”
About shooting some of the film’s scenes in IMAX:
They are big cameras. They are big, loud cameras! And the things take forever to reload. It’s literally 20 minutes to reload a camera. I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was The Avengers. The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that. I think J.J. did a good job of knowing which scenes to marry with the IMAX and which scenes would really pop, like they did with Mission Impossible. When Tom [Cruise] is on that huge building, it made all the sense in the world to do it in IMAX.
So it’ll be great, right?
With J.J. and company – Alex, Bob and Damon included – what they’re really, really good at and what sets them apart is that they know how to do the action, and they know that if you don’t give them the small character-driven drama, you can blow up anything you want and no one cares. People will leave the theater because we’ve all seen it, a million ways. With the second one, people will find that it’s the mythic structure, done really well. The character journeys are just perfect mythic structures. They do it so well. The journeys with the characters will be really great, and the explosions and set pieces are going to knock people out of their seats.
You can read the rest of the interview over at Collider.
“Star Trek 2″ opens May 17, 2013.
