It’s not an uncommon thing for a movie to come up with a medium to prelude, if you will, or introduce the audience with what’s going to take place in the movie itself. I remember Hellboy II: The Golden Army released an animated short that tells us a brief story that would lead us to the plot of the movie, it helped audience understand what’s going on. WB released the awesome animated DVD Batman: Gotham Knight that had 6 unique stories to remind us of Nolan’s version of Batman/Bruce Wayne and leads up to what would be one of the greatest sequel movies ever known. Some movies would release novelizations of the story days before they hit theaters.
J.J. Abrams’ STAR TREK, however, has a different marketing strategy. They’re going back to the basics. Via comingsoon.net, IDW Publishing has joined with Paramount Pictures, J.J. Abrams‘ Bad Robot Productions, Kurtzman/Orci Productions and CBS Consumer Products to publish a four-issue limited comic book series tied to next summer’s new Star Trek movie, which will be released in theaters on May 8, 2009.
STAR TREK writer Roberto Orci the story in this Comic Book series “lays the groundwork for what happens in the movie,” “It’s our way of passing the baton from the ‘Next Generation’ characters and their movies to the new film.”
The first comic in the series, STAR TREK: COUNTDOWN #1 will be released in January 2009, I take it the second, third, and fourth book will be released respectively in February, March, and April of next year. The story is presented by Abrams and plotted by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. It is written by Mike Johnson (Superman/Batman) and Tim Jones, and features stunning art by David Messina (Star Trek: Mirror Images) who also did the covers, one of which you can see in the image above.
This is going to be interesting, Cpt. Jean-Luc Piccard and Data seem to be included… once again, I’m not a Trekkie but something like is definitely worth noticing. When it comes to this, I’m officially more curious now than my neighbor’s cat.
Judging from theatrical trailer, what do you the plot of the Comic Book is about??
