The J.J. Abrams bold reboot of the Star Trek film franchise
in 2009 continues to pay dividends with director Justin Lin’s third installment
in new series, Star Trek Beyond.
The summer box office sweepstakes brought in a solid $157.6
million in ticket sales, and word arrived from Paramount Home Media this week
that Nov. 1 will mark the arrival of a stand-alone DVD edition, a pair of Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Packs (with and without a 3D viewing option — the premium is nine bucks)
and a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack .
The ARR works out to a relatively quick-to-market 102 days.
Chris Pine as Captain James Tiberius Kirk and Zachary Quinto
as Commander Spock once again lead the new timeline crew of the USS Enterprise
for this third installment, which saw Abrams turning over the directorial reins
to Justin Lin (Fast & Furious 6 — and three others in the series — Annapolis,
Better
Luck Tomorrow), and sadly Leonard Nimoy (as the connection to the
previous timeline) and Anton Yelchin (as the new Pavel Chekov) left us prior to
the film’s theatrical debut.
A new villain, Krall (Idris Elba — Thor: The Dark World, Pacific
Rim, Prometheus), with a killer weapon that quickly dispatches the
Enterprise (a spectacular film sequence) — and an even more deadly weapon
waiting to be unleashed — plus the arrival of a new exotic alien character,
Jaylah (played by Sofia Boutella — who stars in next summer’s The
Mummy along side Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe), mark the storyline in Star
Trek Beyond.
The film’s storyline feels like something of a throwback
episode of one of the Star Trek television series
episodes, with various cast members being isolated and having to survive in a
hostile environment before reteaming to defeat Krall — of course against
seemingly impossible odds. Which is,
only fitting, since Star Trek Beyond marks the 50th anniversary of the
original television series, which launched just after Labor Day in 1966.
All of the bonus goodies are reserved for the Blu-ray and 4K
Ultra HD release SKUs. These include
deleted scenes, a gag reel and nine production featurettes — “Beyond the Darkness,” “Enterprise
Takedown,” “Divided and Conquered,” “A Warped Sense of Revenge,” “Trekking in
the Desert,” “Exploring Strange New Worlds,” “New Life, New Civilizations” “To
Live Long and Prosper” and “For Leonard and Anton.”
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