B00D3KWS9U

032429131423

1979

1979-12-08

132

2h 12min

Nominated for 3 Oscars, 4 wins & 20 nominations total

Robert Wise

Gene Roddenberry, Harold Livingston, Alan Dean Foster

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley

David C. Fein, Jon Povill, Gene Roddenberry

Jerry Goldsmith

Richard H. Kline

Todd C. Ramsay

Marvin Paige

Harold Michelson

Leon Harris, Joseph R. Jennings, John Vallone

Linda DeScenna

Robert Fletcher

Barbara Minster, Ve Neill, Fred B. Phillips, Janna Phillips, Rick Stratton, Carlos Yeaggy, Susan A. Cabral

Ridgeway Callow, Lindsley Parsons Jr., Phil Rawlins

Kevin G. Cremin, Daniel McCauley, Douglas E. Wise, Douglas Trumbull

Lee Cole, Tom Cranham, Tom Ivanjack, Jack Johnson, Eugene S. Kelley, Steven Kerlagon, Martin A. Kline, Daniel Maltese, Robert McCall, Syd Mead, Michael Minor, Don Moore, David J. Negron, Andrew Probert, Ron Resch, Richard M. Rubin, John R. Shourt, Jimmy Williams, Maurice Zuberano, Chris Courtois, Benjamin Resella, Ron Saks, Kevin Shanks, Rick Sternbach, Ed Verreaux

Richard L. Anderson, Michael Babcock, Noyan Cosarer, Dirk Dalton, Stephen Hunter Flick, Joel Goldsmith, Cecelia Hall, Sean Hanley, Alan Howarth, Gregg Landaker, Francesco Lupica, Mark A. Mangini, Benjamin Martin, Steve Maslow, Alan Robert Murray, Tom Overton, Frank Serafine, Bill Varney, Colin Waddy, George Watters II, Marty Church, Gary A. Hecker, Craig Huxley, John Roesch, Donald C. Rogers

Martin Bresin, Ray Mattey, Darrell Pritchett, Jor Van Kline, Alex Weldon, Courtney Dane, Ted Koerner, Kevin Pike

Lindsay Adler, Larry Albright, Richard Alexander, Michael Backauskas, Don Baker, Charles L. Barbee, Philip Barberio, David Bartholomew, Deborah Baxter, David Beasley, Lisze Bechtold, Mat Beck, Mona Thal Benefiel, Thane Berti, Bruce Bishop, Cosmas Paul Bolger Jr., Rob Bonchune, Al Broussard, Steve Burg, Deena Burkett, Brent Burpee, Glenn Campbell, Kathryn Campbell, Mark Cane, Merllyn Ching, Elrene Cowan, Don Cox, Chris Crump, Kris Dean, Angela Diamos, Cy Didjurgis, Daren Dochterman, Mike Donahue, Dennis Dorney, Roger Dorney, Jim Dow, Doug Drexler, Janet Dykstra, John Dykstra, Douglas Eby, Leslie Ekker, John Ellis, Robert Elswit, Charles Embrey, Jonathan Erland, Lee Ettleman, Scott Farrar, Michael L. Fink, Stephen Fog, P.J. Foley, Bob Friedstand, Joe Garlington, Ernest Garza, Bo Gehring, Bruno George, Christopher George, Pete Gerard, Rick Gilligan, John H. Gilman, Rocco Gioffre, Leora Glass, David Gold, Joyce Goldberg, Philip Golden, Phil Gonzales, Jim Goodnight, Abbot Grafton, Kris Gregg, Alan Gundelfinger, Rick Guttierez, David R. Hardberger, Alan Harding, Linda Harris, Allen Hastings, Richard O. Helmer, Jack Hinkle, Sherry Hitch, Richard E. Hollander, Robert Hollister, Thomas Hollister, John Hughes, Fred Iguchi, John James, Don Jarel, Gregory Jein, Phil Joanou, Paul D. Johnson, Ann Johnston, Proctor Jones, Michael Joyce, Nicola Kaftan, Denny Kelly, Deborah Kendall, John Kimball, Greg Kimble, Steve Klein, Mark Kline, Tom Koester, Don Kurtz, Milt Laiken, Lin Law, Michael Lawler, Deidre Le Blanc, Adam 'Mojo' Lebowitz, Robin Dean Leyden, Brian Longbotham, Stephen Mark, Guy Marsden, Clayton R. Marsh, Pat McClung, David McCue, Grant McCune, Russell McElhatton, Mimi McKinney, Michael McMillen, Gregory L. McMurry, Michael Douglas Middleton, Bill Millar, Alvah J. Miller, John Millerburg, Virgil Mirano, Harry Moreau, Linda Moreau, Conne Morgan, Max Morgan, David R. Morton, Josh Morton, Mike Myers, Erik Nash, Gerald Nash, Ron Nathan, Sam Nicholson, Lewis Niven, Paul Olsen, Tom Pahk, Mike Peed, Trevor Peirce, Jose Perez, Greg Pierce, John Piner, George Polkinghorne, Jerry Pooler, Stephen W. Pugh, Bob Quinn, John Ramsay Jr., Lex Rawlins, Gary Rhodaback, James W. Riley, Christopher S. Ross, Steve Sass, Dennis Schultz, David Scott, Jonathan Seay, Dieter Seifert, Robert Shepherd, Robert Short, William Shourt, Denise Shurtleff, Russ Simpson, Dick Singleton, Steve Slocomb, Richard Smiley, Douglas Smith, Nora Jeanne Smith, David Smithson, David Sosalla, Robert Spurlock, Scott Squires, Mark Stetson, David K. Stewart, Lee Stringer, John E. Sullivan, Robert Swarthe, Michael Sweeney, Richard Taylor, John Teska, Robert C. Thomas, Rick Thompson, Ron Thornton, Don Trumbull, Douglas Trumbull, Paul Turner, Susan Turner, Patrick Van Auken, Timothy Warner, Don Webber, Cynthia Webster, Gary Weeks, Evans Wetmore, Don Wheeler, Greg Wilzbach, Vicky Witt, Diana Wooten, Hoyt Yeatman, Alison Yerxa, Matthew Yuricich, Richard Yuricich, Darryl Anka, Philo Barnhart, Jeffrey Baxter, Chris Buchinsky, Karen Culley, Chris Elliot, Glenn Erickson, Mark Freund, Sari Gennis, Bill George, Dave Gregory, Ron Gress, William Guest, David V. Lester, Dennis Michelson, Lisa Morton, John C. Moulds, Paul Olsen, Kathleen Quaife-Hodge, Michael Rivero, Ron Saks, Barry Seybert, John Sore, Zuzana Swansea, George Trimmer, Linda Webber, Marv Ystrom

Bob Bralver, Bill Couch, Keith Lane Jensen, John Hugh McKnight, Kevin Appleton, Kym Washington Longino, Tom Morga

Albert Bettcher, Jim Dickson, Michael Genne, Larry D. Howard, Bruce Logan, Robert Sordal, Mel Traxel, Charles F. Wheeler, Robert A. Wise, Bernie Abramson, Richard Debolt, Lowell Peterson, Ron Saks

Jack Bear, James P. Cullen, Agnes G. Henry, Mary Etta Lang, Bob Miller

Don Dittmar, Darren T. Holmes, Rick Mitchell, Randy D. Thornton, Paul Hamill

Tom Boyd, Alexander Courage, Jerry Goldsmith, Kenneth Hall, Craig Huxley, Tommy Johnson, Francesco Lupica, Malcolm McNab, Arthur Morton, John Neal, Emil Richards, Steven L. Smith, Sally Stevens, James Thatcher, Louise Di Tullio, Alexander Courage, Carl Fortina, Ralph Grierson, The Hollywood Studio Symphony, Shelly Manne, Lionel Newman, Allen Sides, Fred Steiner

Bonnie Prendergast, Dennis Lynton Clark

Robert D. Mayne

Isaac Asimov, Carol Sue Byron, Boyce R. Doyle, Richard Foy, Suzanne Gordon, Tom Greene, Charles A. Ogle, Bob Peak, John Rothwell, Susan Sackett, Anita Terrian, Jesco von Puttkamer, Steven Ashley Wilson, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, Gene Roddenberry, Philip Weyland

Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Paramount Pictures, Century Associates, Robert Wise Productions

USA

English, Klingon

G

6.4

90355

50

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film directed by Robert Wise and based on the television series Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, who also served as its producer. It is the first installment in the Star Trek film series, and stars the cast of the original television series. In the film, set in the 2270s, a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud known as V Ger approaches Earth, destroying everything in its path. Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) assumes command of the recently refitted Starship USS Enterprise, to lead it on a mission to save the planet and determine V Ger s origins.

When the original television series was canceled in 1969, Roddenberry lobbied Paramount Pictures to continue the franchise through a feature film. The success of the series in syndication convinced the studio to begin work on the film in 1975. A series of writers attempted to craft a suitably epic script, but the attempts did not satisfy Paramount, and in 1977, the project was scrapped. Instead, Paramount planned on returning the franchise to its roots, with a new television series titled Star Trek: Phase II. The box office success of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, however, convinced Paramount that science fiction films other than Star Wars could do well, so the studio canceled production of Phase II and resumed its attempts at making a Star Trek film.

In March 1978, Paramount assembled the largest press conference held at the studio since the 1950s to announce that Wise would direct a $15 million film adaptation of the original television series. Filming began that August and concluded the following January. With the cancellation of Phase II, writers rushed to adapt its planned pilot episode, In Thy Image , into a film script. Constant revisions to the story and the shooting script continued to the extent of hourly script updates on shooting dates. The Enterprise was modified inside and out, costume designer Robert Fletcher provided new uniforms, and production designer Harold Michelson fabricated new sets. Jerry Goldsmith composed the film s score, beginning an association with Star Trek that would continue until 2002. When the original contractors for the optical effects proved unable to complete their tasks in time, effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull was asked to meet the film s December 1979 release date. Wise took the just-completed film to its Washington, D.C., opening, but always felt that the final theatrical version was a rough cut of the film he wanted to make.

Released in North America on December 7, 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture received mixed reviews, many of which faulted it for a lack of action scenes and over-reliance on special effects. Its final production cost ballooned to approximately $44 million, and it earned $139 million worldwide, short of studio expectations but enough for Paramount to propose a less expensive sequel. Roddenberry was forced out of creative control for the sequel, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). In 2001, Wise oversaw a director s cut for a special DVD release of the film, with remastered audio, tightened and added scenes, and new computer-generated effects.

$35,000,000 (estimated)

$11,926,421

$82,604,699

$82,674,320

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