Beam Me Up Sulu Trailer

Beam Me Up Sulu Trailer - official movie trailer HD

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00:01First memory of Star Trek is I guess it would be Sulu. George Takei was the guy

00:07on TV that looked like me and I like what I saw on that show so we decided to

00:13do fan film. We wanted to play Star Trek. I was just a way for me to meet hot chicks.

00:22It was something that we made, you know, thinking of money. They were filming on weekends while they

00:31were still in school. We just wanted to have fun. I had no idea that this thing was gonna

00:36balloon into this. Sulu is my favorite character and I thought it would be really neat to have him

00:44in my movie. George Takei was well paid as a Hollywood actor and a kid asked him would you

00:50be in my film? He seemed like that passionate young man who was gonna do it come hell or

00:58high water so I thought yes okay. Oh my god why the fuck did you do that? It is truly fascinating

01:07that this got made and it involved people who you would not associate with sort of a

01:12super amateur low-budget fan film. Your crew has been notified to resume duty. We also had James

01:18Shigeta who you might recognize from Die Hard. I'm shocked that they got James Shigeta to do that.

01:23Star Trek meant something to them. It is about being a brotherhood, a sisterhood, a them-hood of everybody.

01:32Star Trek was so forward-thinking. Star Trek took it on itself to actually subtly edify. How to deal

01:39with race relations. How to deal with gender inequality. Not only trans representation but a

01:44little bit of queer representation. The strength of this starship lay in its diversity and because

01:50the audience is diverse they would see themselves. I'd watch him sit there warp eight, warp nine. I mean

01:58you're sitting there thinking yeah! You're growing up and you're watching TV you just want to see

02:02somebody that looks like you on a show. The drone must have landed here. When Stan was ready to start

02:08working on it again he couldn't find the film footage. I think my mom moved it or something and

02:14it disappeared. I was used to that the movie would never be finished. The fan film was 36 years in the

02:19making. Now that's dedication. If you want to look at it as a film critic they had to do thumbs down on

02:27some parts of it. But that isn't the gesture that they were looking for. They were looking for this one

02:33and I'm happy to give it to them. Yeah not a good movie but as an expression of Star Trek love

02:40it's fantastic. Passion is an important thing. More people should have that.

02:49I know that this is going to be a great success. May you all live long and prosper.