Harry Knowles sees some Star Trek footage

Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News was invited by J. J. Abrams into the editing room of the new Star Trek movie. He saw about seven minutes of footage, and especially loves the casting of Karl Urban as McCoy and that of Spock. Read the whole thing here.

I got a sense of what JJ is up to. He’s very much reinventing it – the way Robert Wise did – and at the same time – he’s directing the actors with an energy and an aliveness that we haven’t seen. This was exciting, yet strange and it felt somehow… real.