New Book: The Making Of Star Trek II

[Captain Dunsel]

I had no idea that this was coming and ordered it today.

Anyone already receive a copy?

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The Making of the Classic Film (Star Trek, 2)
Amazon.com

 

[Apollo]

Supposedly its pretty good, let us know

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Wow—I have to hand it to Amazon, that was a record fast delivery.

My first thoughts, after having skimmed the book…this is a definite “must have” with a ton of production photos that I had never seen as well as details I had never heard before (I had no idea that WOK had any other reshoots other than the ending with Spock’s casket on the Genesis planet —including the fight between Kirk and David in the Regula Cave. I also didn’t know that Janice Wallace from “The Deadly Years” and The Romulan Commander from “The Enterprise Incident” were in early drafts of the script).

Sadly, there are no prop pictures, but it’s otherwise an outstanding book on the film.

 

[Astyanax]

How would you compare it to a Rinzler Star Wars BTS book? Does it get into as much detail as Rinzler did?

 

[Captain Dunsel]

How would you compare it to a Rinzler Star Wars BTS book? Does it get into as much detail as Rinzler did?

No, it’s not quite that detailed.

As a quick visual comparison…

 

[Ron]

No, it’s not quite that detailed.

As a quick visual comparison…

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[Clerval]

It's a good book, esp if paired up with Alan Asherman's old book and a few articles from AC, others.

 

[Treadwell]

including the fight between Kirk and David in the Regula Cave.

I KNEW IT!
When I first saw production stills from back in the day of David pinning Kirk to the ground, I knew they had to have had shot it with Kirk losing as it is described in the novelization. And then when I looked at the fight again, the shots are composed so that you don't see any of the other characters who are ostensibly standing all around them, as if just those two were called back to reshoot. I was like, oooh, this scene got Shatnered!

 

[Laspector]

Let me ask it to you this way--if you were a huge fan of the movie, read all the Starlog articles, bought all the original making of books, etc--does this offer anything new?

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Let me ask it to you this way--if you were a huge fan of the movie, read all the Starlog articles, bought all the original making of books, etc--does this offer anything new?

Well, I have not yet read the book, but just the photos make it worth having, to me.

A ton of the photos I had never seen before.

 

[publiusr]

Now, ILM had photos of their FX mastery.

One had Reliant trailing blood-like plasma from the severed nacelle mount...(sparks in the film)...a still of the neck hit...and one of phasers hitting the roll bar.

That in the book?

 

[DarkKnight]

Let me ask it to you this way--if you were a huge fan of the movie, read all the Starlog articles, bought all the original making of books, etc--does this offer anything new?

mine came damaged, I returned it, I had hoped it had more BTS and SFX photos, I would buy again for $20 but not full price