{"id":11821,"date":"2011-04-19T10:09:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11821"},"modified":"2011-04-19T10:52:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:52:59","slug":"writers-hired-for-new-abrams-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/04\/writers-hired-for-new-abrams-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Hired For New Abrams Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another one of <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong>&#8216;s many irons in the fire has been revealed and as is often the case with an Abrams production, not much information is being released to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monica Breen <\/strong>and <strong>Alison Schapker<\/strong>, two writer\/producers who have worked with Abrams on <em>Fringe, Lost<\/em> and <em>Alias<\/em>, will be rewriting the script for <em>Zanbato<\/em>, another Abrams project.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AbramsSmall1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11822\" title=\"AbramsSmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AbramsSmall1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>Zanbato<\/em> is the working title of the future movie, and according to <em>Deadline.com<\/em>, the script includes &#8220;Japanese history and robotics: swashbuckling robots with swords.&#8221; A Zanbato is a very large Japanese sword originally used by Japanese foot soldiers against cavalry.<\/p>\n<p>This won&#8217;t be the first time that an Abrams film owes something to Japan. According to Abrams, <em>Cloverfield<\/em> was partly inspired by a toy store stop while a trip to Japan with his son; where seeing Godzilla toys gave Abrams the idea to give America its own monster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another one of J.J. Abrams&#8216;s many irons in the fire has been revealed and as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[2407,3603],"class_list":["post-11821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-abrams","tag-zanbato"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11823,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions\/11823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}