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There is a Star Trek movie teaser trailer coming out. I'm too lazy to link to it because it's basically nothing, just enough to confirm that the film's in production, and to signal the fanboys to commence the freakout. (Its audio is samples of Apollo mission radio chatter that you can hear in any dime-store trance mix, for pete's sake. OK, and Nimoy. All right, fine: http://www.paramount.com/startrek. Sheesh.)

If JJ Abrams can tell an entire SF story that has a satisfying ending in the length of a single feature film, all shall be forgiven. Until then, I'm skeptical.

Meanwhile I find myself really out of touch regarding movies. I saw a friend complaining in an IM status message that someone named Cloverfield made her feel sick, figuring it was a co-worker who should have stayed home.

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There are two problems with world building-heavy new IPs, one on the fan/creator side and one on the corporate side. On the fan side, once a universe hits critical mass, it tends to suck in a lot of energy and activity. On the corporate (and therefore more active in this discussion) side, more people will go to see a movie that doesn't ask them to learn a lot - which means either a movie that doesn't do any world building, or a movie that leverages a world with which the mass audience is already passingly familiar.

Another powerful argument that mixing up nerdiness with corporate ownership will always lead to heartbreak.