![]() ![]() ![]() Another promising nugget of info emerged around this time, when writer-director Lindsey Anderson Beer, who co-wrote a prospective "Star Trek 4" script, told Collider, "It's still on the tracks." So, "Star Trek 4" isn't dead in the water, and with the 2023 Hollywood strikes ended, a major obstacle is gone. In a September 2023 piece on the end of the Writers Guild of America strike, Variety reported that Paramount was looking to polish a "Star Trek 4" script. And if coalesces again and we come back and we're able to do it, wonderful. He continued, "I don't know if and when it will happen. It's complicated," the actor remarked (via ). "I think there's a lot of other stuff, creative things. Speaking with Collider, former director Matt Shakman (who left the project to direct "Fantastic Four") said, "I think what they're still working on is a version of what I have been working on for the time that I was involved." In August 2023, Quinto added his own take on the likelihood of a fourth outing. As part of a multi-year deal with Fox, that was followed by Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, which incorporated 20 minutes in the Escape format.We have reason to believe "Star Trek 4" is still in the works, however. ![]() We’re very interested in emerging technologies and new formats that offer innovation in the theatrical experience.”įollowing Beyond, the next big step for Escape may be Scott Waugh’s upcoming 6 Below, which will be the first film shot for release entirely in Escape.Įscape debuted in 2014 with Twentieth Century Fox’s The Maze Runner, which included the expanded tri-screen imagery in seven minutes of the film, at a handful of supported theaters. I think this is an exciting next step for the format. Everyone on our side has been more and more excited about it. Will audiences see this as a gimmick or exciting new format? This remains to be seen, but Rosenblatt gives it a ”big thumbs up. We are talking about so that anyone can use it for Escape finishing.”įor Star Trek Beyond, the Escape footage is spread throughout the film (as a result it might feel like more than reported) and the side screens go to black when then are not in use. “SGO has been incredible as a partner to us, writing new software,” says Rosenblatt. He gave kudos to SGO’s Peter Amies, who helped Bad Robot to develop the workflow, as well as complete the production. ![]() We were able to preview the experience with the full three-screen view and make sizing, sharpening and other decisions for a consistent look.” “We had to finish the whole movie again, involving all three screens of the movie with a lot of color matching. Rosenblatt says that a “critical component” was Bad Robot’s pair of Mistika finishing systems, which are made by Madrid-based manufacturer SGO. “That was key, but was also the sheer volume of data, hundreds of terabytes of information,” says Merzin Tavaria, who served as Prime Focus’ creative director on the Escape version. While Double Negative’s London and Vancouver office were working on the movie, they shared the same pipeline to move and share images with Prime Focus in Mumbai, which did the Escape extensions. Beyond director Justin Lin and producer Abrams, who directed the first two films in the franchise reboot, led the creative side. The other half was created by Kelvin Optical, an in-house VFX group at Bad Robot, working with Base Effects in China. Had anything in the pipeline gone wrong, we wouldn’t have made it.”Ībout half of the Escape material is fully CG set-extensions created by Prime Focus in conjunction with Prime Focus-owned Double Negative, a leading VFX house on the film. “We finished Tuesday and it screened Wednesday in Dubai, which is 11 hours ahead of us. “I never finished anything this close to release,” Rosenblatt says, adding that he then slept for a few hours before headed back down to San Diego for Comic Con. He also had to go to the Escape auditorium at Cinemark’s Howard Hughes Center for a quality control screening before delivering the digital cinema master to Deluxe, which mastered the Digital Cinema Package (the digital equivalent of a film print). ![]()
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