A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.  Ah, wait a minute!  I’m getting my sci-fi STAR movies mixed up with Star Wars: The Force Awakens which is on everyone’s mind right now as it passes $1.5 billion at the box office in record time!  What I meant was, space – a final frontier, these are the continuing movies in a 50 year franchise with the upcoming Star Trek Beyond!  When this feature film is released on July 22, 2016, it will be 50 years since Gene Roddenberry premiered the original Star Trek television series. I started working on the third installment of the latest reboot of Star Trek in Sept. 2014.  It had already been in prep for a few months and had most of the key elements of the movie already designed under the very talented and versatile direction of production designer Scott Chambliss and director Roberto Orci.  Then it all changed when the script was tossed out! Fast forward a few months to Feb. 2015 and we have a new production designer Tom Sanders and a new director Justin Lin.  And we had also lost four months of prep time, but we were still scheduled […]