Interview with Star Trek Exec Producer Marc Evans
Star Trek Magazine #17 features an interview with Marc Evans, Paramount’s Production Executive on J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. Following is an excerpt from that interview:
Leonard Nimoy said he was gratified that there was a story that understood the character of Spock so well. What was it about the story that sold it to you?
Marc Evans: There is this phenomenal thing in all of J.J.’s work, in Bob and Alex’s work, in Damon’s work, that shows the massively personal inside [of] the most exciting framework that it can be done in. J.J. is a guy who has done Felicity on the one hand, and Mission: Impossible on the other hand. Alex and Bob wrote the story for Transformers which is really just about a boy getting his first car. The Star Trek pitch and the Star Trek script had exactly those same things.
Outside the fans, with the general public, Star Trek has gained a reputation of being for the ‘geeks and nerds’, is that a perception you want to change before the movie or are you hoping that the movie will drive that?
Marc Evans: The beauty of the movie, at least in my opinion, and in all of my colleagues’ opinion associated with the movie, is that we all really believe that Trekkers are going to love it, and that we have created something for them. Bob and Alex, J.J., Damon and Bryan have all talked about this a lot and what was so great about the Supreme Court on this was their varied acquaintance with the Star Trek Universe. Bob knows every single detail of the world, and has probably read every single Star Trek novel, but Bryan on the other hand I do genuinely believe had never seen an episode of the original show.
We have created a movie that is for everyone. The teaser trailer I thought was a stroke of genius, and then the trailer which went up with Quantum of Solace serves both purposes. Frankly I think there is very little work for us to do to define it one way or the other because I think that the film does that, and the materials that we will have in the marketplace do it for it. I believe someone who has never seen an episode of Star Trek, who never believed it was for them, will watch the trailer and want to go to the movie. Fans and those people who maybe were fans at one point and then drifted away are going to look at it and go, “I’m coming back”, or “Man,I’m definitely going to that.” I think we have such a great movie that it’s easy to create publicity materials from it which will tell everybody that the movie will appeal to all of them.
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