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Roger Nygaard - the producer/director of Trekkies 1 & 2 - just sent us a Christmas card where he wish all Gatekeepers a Merry Christmas! :) I'm sure we'll get to see him again on one of our Cons. :)
Richard Arnold (Roddenberry's advicor for fifteen years AND advicor on the new Star Trek XI) informs Gatekeeper that looking for an absolute likeness in the actors to portray the original crew has not been a priority! But it WAS iportant to the movie that the actor doing Spock looks as much as him as possible. He can't be more specific! ;)
BUT - logic dictates that there will be a morph between the old and the young Spock as he looks back in time.
Our dear friend Mark Allen Shepherd (Morn from DS9) just posted a family video to 4Fathers and wish you all a happy new year.
Richard Arnold got a "no thanks" from Trekkers Norway's WARP coordinator Trine Våbenø, when he asked if they were interested in inviting him to the convention - even though he is back as Paramount's Star Trek advisor and know all details about the new Star Trek movie.
With facilities for 100 000 Norwegian crowns (about 14 000 dollars) the budget will most likely not allow such a visit (they would have to pay for his plane tickets and hotel) IF they plan to invite a Star Trek actor. This means we are likely to see Robert Picardo invited this year. Picardo was cancelled in 2006 and would be first in line for such an invitation.
But first the sponsors need to be there, and on a small Sci-Fi marked as Scandinavia this is not easy. Cross your fingers. ;)
PS! Richard Arnold and Bobbie Adams are invited for the Oslo Sci-Fi Festival 2009 by the Gatekeepers. Most likeley there will be at least one actor invited as well - in adition to the Convention's own guests.
Because of the writers streik in the US, Richard Arnold never got his contract. Instead he got the offer of doing a cameo in the movie. Hopefully he'll still get to comment upon everything on the set. So far he tells us that it looks very good. The movie is in the hands of Star Trek fans for once.
Richard will be joined by another exciting cameo actor - but that will have to be a secret for now. ;)
Remember:
If you are a part of productions or an actor in the Gatekeeper movie - OR if you want to become one; send me a PM and we'll open up the Bridge Section for you to join the internal debate. If you are totally new - Tell me a bit about yourself, how well you speak English, hight, interests aso, and send me a picture of your face to dahldesign@hotmail.com
4Fathers produce graphics and matte paintings for other fan based movies/series as well. The latest one is the crew pic for Star Trek: Origins (see pic), and the question; "Why is the Origins picture better than our own?" - will arrise.
Well! Gatekeeper has not yet produced our own crew shot. We have posted one on the home page - but that was just a quick one to present the characters. Naturally we will come up with a spectacular one, when the costumes and make up is ready! ;)
The Origins pic is created from ordinary, single face shots of the actors, which means all bodies is created by hand (since the uniforms is not yet ready). The result is ok, but nothing beats a photo shoot for that kind of pics.
PS! I'm also posting the last poster we reated for origins! :)
The result of the annual Trekkers Norway meeting is in and the new TN board looks like this:
Leader: Thor Jøran Jensen
Next in charge: Eirik Vestlund
Board member: Frederic Erwin Lehman
Board member: Øyvind Nedre
Board member: Jostein Sivertsen
Extra: Ole-Tom Ingebrigtsen
4Fathers are very happy with this result, and the cooperation between the organizations has started. We will do our very best to help Trekkers Norway grow even bigger.
RIP Alexander "Sandy" Courage
LOS ANGELES - Alexander "Sandy" Courage, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated arranger, orchestrator and composer who created the otherworldly theme for the classic "Star Trek" TV show, has died. He was 88.
Courage died May 15 at the Sunrise assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, his stepdaughter Renata Pompelli of Los Angeles, said Thursday. He had been in poor health for three years.
Over a decades-long career, Courage collaborated on dozens of movies and orchestrated some of the greatest musicals of the 1950s and 1960s, including "My Fair Lady," "Hello, Dolly!" "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," "Gigi," "Porgy and Bess" and "Fiddler on the Roof."
But his most famous work is undoubtedly the "Star Trek" theme, which he composed, arranged and conducted in a week in 1965.
"I have to confess to the world that I am not a science fiction fan," Courage said in an interview for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation's Archive of American Television in 2000. "Never have been. I think it's just marvelous malarkey. ... So you write some, you hope, marvelous malarkey music that goes with it."
Courage said the tune, with its ringing fanfare, eerie soprano part and swooping orchestration, was inspired by an arrangement of the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon" he heard as a youngster.
"Little did I know when I wrote that first A-flat for the flute that it was going to go down in history, somehow," Courage said. "It's a very strange feeling."
Courage said he also mouthed the "whooshing" sound heard as the starship Enterprise zooms through the opening credits of the TV show.
"Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry later wrote lyrics to the tune, which were never sung on the show but entitled him to half the royalties, Courage said.
Among the many other projects Courage worked on was the 1987 TV special "Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas," for which he won an Emmy for musical direction.
He and Lionel Newman shared Academy Award nominations for their adapted scores for 1964's "The Pleasure Seekers" and 1967's "Doctor Dolittle."
A friend and colleague of movie composers John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, he also provided the orchestration for such movies as "The Poseidon Adventure," "Jurassic Park," "Basic Instinct" and "The Mummy" and supplied arrangements for the Boston Pops while Williams was conductor in the 1980s and early 1990s.
For "Star Trek" he composed music for only a few episodes, in addition to the theme and the music for the pilot. But that theme was reprised in the TV sequel "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and in the "Star Trek" movies.
Courage was born Dec. 10, 1919, in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey. After graduation from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., in 1941, Courage enlisted in the Army Air Corps.
After the war, he became a composer for CBS radio shows and then became an orchestrator and arranger at MGM.
Beginning in the 1960s he composed music for TV shows, including "The Waltons," "Lost in Space" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," although the only themes he created were for "Star Trek" and "Judd For the Defense."
Henrik from Section 42 took his own life a few days ago. He was one of the nicest people I have ever met. His family will play Star Trek music in his funeral, and his Star Trek props will be sold at the Game and Film Convention in Stockholm - most likely to be donated to charity. Please join me in giving him a last Vulcan salute on his way.
News Flash
Jean Whitehead is dead!
Jean Whitehead passed away early this morning. She was a dear friend of Barbara Adams, and a member of the same Trekker group. We all know Jean from the Trekkies 2 documentary, where she present us with her Alien portrait. Aliens or not, she had a big heart and a wonderful personality - and will most certainly be missed!
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