{"id":43098,"date":"2016-04-11T10:39:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T17:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=43098"},"modified":"2016-04-11T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T17:39:05","slug":"lin-we-had-to-star-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/04\/lin-we-had-to-star-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Lin: We Had To Star Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview for the print version of <em>Film Journal International<\/em>, <strong>Justin Lin<\/strong> spoke about <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, including coming on board for the movie, the destruction of the Enterprise, and the passing of <strong>Leonard Nimo<\/strong>y.<\/p>\n<p>Joining <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em> meant starting over when it came to the film, and that was OK by Lin. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be very clear: I don&#8217;t know what came before me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We basically had to start over, and that was one of the selling points for me&#8230;we had to start from scratch. A clean-up mission wouldn&#8217;t have excited me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got the call from J.J. and he kind of laid out the mission. For lack of a better term &#8211; and I think this is out in the open &#8211; it was a bit of a rescue mission. I think something had gone wrong and they wanted to start over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the movie, fans will again get to see the Enterprise destroyed, and Lin explained the reasoning behind it. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t come in saying &#8216;Let&#8217;s destroy.&#8217; It was more like, &#8216;Let&#8217;s deconstruct&#8217;&#8230; [<strong>Simon Pegg, Doug Jung<\/strong>, and I] felt that with this being the Fiftieth anniversary of <em>Star Trek<\/em>, let&#8217;s deconstruct it and hopefully rebuild it in a way that reaffirms why we&#8217;ve loved it for half a century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lin also touched upon the passing of <strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong>, who appeared in the first two Abrams&#8217; films, and revealed that his death will affect <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em>. &#8220;It&#8217;s something you&#8217;ll see in the film,&#8221; said Lin. &#8220;It obviously affected everybody, because he&#8217;s been a big part of our lives. There&#8217;s an attempt to acknowledge that in some way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the full <em>Film Journal International <\/em>article, head to the link located at <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.trekcore.com\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=641\">TrekCore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview for the print version of Film Journal International, Justin Lin spoke about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2818],"tags":[8138],"class_list":["post-43098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-beyond","tag-lin"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LinSTB041116.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LinSTB041116-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LinSTB041116.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LinSTB041116.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LinSTB041116.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LinSTB041116.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LinSTB041116.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LinSTB041116.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LinSTB041116.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/LinSTB041116.gif",580,225,false]},"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-beyond\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Beyond<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Beyond","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43098","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=43098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43100,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43098\/revisions\/43100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}