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Check out the new Star Trek posters!!!

Star Trek is set to hit theaters May 8, 2009

Harlan Ellison, a prolific writer who is know for his many astonishing  literary and television works mostly known for his work in the Star Trek series has attributed to his much achieved success. As of late he has been gaining a new found popularity in the  court room. Ellison sued Star Trek for creating alternate works based on his epic script The City on The Edge of Forever, undoubtedly the most acclaimed episode throughout the entire series.

According to Hardcore Nerdity:

Author and aging enfant terrible Harlan Ellison issued a typically amusing press release detailing a lawsuit he’s launched against Paramount regarding use of intellectual property deriving from his 1966 Star Trek script “The City on The Edge Of Forever”. Specifically a trilogy of Trek novels that use multiple elements of “City” as a springboard.

This is not the first time Ellison has film a lawsuit against a production studio, having sued Paramount as well as Warner Bros. before for various form of plagiarism. Honestly you can’t blame the guy, he should be entitled to portions of the revenue gained from his work. Despite minor personality problems he still has the accreditation for his work and should rightfully get rewarded for his efforts.

It just comes to show that the movie industry isn’t as glamorous as it has been deemed to be.  There are people out there that will try to screw you in so many ways it gets ridiculous….In the Wizzard’z opinion, Ellison has every right and reason to sue every time the break copyright laws. If no one takes a stand, then everyone loses out.

Possibly one of the biggest movie franchises, Star Trek is 10 movies deep with the 11th still in post production set to release May 9, 2009. Taking over the movie scene with their innovative futuristic plots and characters. Now i must admit at first i wasn’t much of a Star Trek fan but after watching the trailers I soon hoped on the Trekie band wagon and now here I am posting the new trailer. Which every one should check out by the way. It’s at the bottom of the post.

So when I found out that the beautiful Zoe Saldana will be playing the role of Lt. Nyota Uhura , Star Trek soon became number one on my anticipation list, seeing how it will release right around the corner.

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I never thought I’d say this but i actually wanna see the new Star Trek movie. I have never in all my past been a Star Trek fan, quite frankly i couldn’t stand it. Despite the fact that i never completely finished  a Star Trek movie, I was skeptical about watching the trailer. But a bored college student has to find someway to occupy his time… Anyway I like the direction they took in this one, kind of a more up to date version, it looks like they twisted the plot up and actually made it interesting. So for the time being I guess I can finally say that I’m a Trekkie. Hopefully this movie isn’t a disappointment.

Set to star in the film are actors Chris Pine( Smoking Aces) and Eric Bana(Hulk and Troy)

Check out the trailer:

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