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J.J. Abrams: Pop-culture polymath
4 September 2009 12:32 PM, PDT
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Welcome back to our EW University course on TV Auteurs -- a look at some of the people who have had a major role in shaping the medium over the last 50 years. Today, Prof. Dan Snierson offers his overview of the work of J.J. Abrams.
If you had to sum up J.J. Abrams neatly in just one word, it would be ... kinda hard to do. He’s a cross-genre, multi-medium hyphenate who flies a geek flag of many colors. (The boy who grew up on The Twilight Zone, Mission Impossible, Get Smart, James Bond, and Star Wars has crafted a TV resume that boasts credits as diverse as Felicity and Fringe; his movie credits range from Regarding Henry to Cloverfield.) His projects tend to be smart, layered, splashy, angsty, laced with mystery and/or mythology -- plus they just might contain an It Girl in the making (see: Keri Russell,
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100 Most Creative People in Business: #14 - Jj Abrams
22 May 2009 2:00 PM, PDT
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J.J. Abrams warps Time at will. Past, present, and future coexist as a kind of fluid that cannot be contained. The camera jumps back and forth in time. Characters age and grow younger again. Time itself accelerates, then slows. "It's intriguing to play with exactly when you learn elements in a story," says the Emmy-winning writer-director-producer, referring to Lost, his biggest hit on the small screen. "It engages audience members in a puzzle where they begin to question everything. It makes them look for clues in what they're watching in a way traditional narrative doesn't."
This temporal relativity allows Abrams to create forms of entertainment more time-bound directors cannot. And it is increasingly not only a stylistic signature, but also an added bit of leverage in the marketplace. ("We are thrilled to be in business with him," says Brad Grey, Paramount's chairman and CEO. "Bad Robot was one of the
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J.J. Abrams Dishes on the Fringe Season Finale!
12 May 2009 1:40 PM, PDT
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The co-creator of the series talks about the first-year hit
J.J. Abrams scored yet another TV hit when Fringe premiered in the fall. The series he co-created with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman is coming to the end of its first season with the Season 1 finale episode, There's More Than One of Everything, which will air on Tuesday, May 12 at 9 Pm Et on Fox. Abrams recently held a conference call to discuss the first season finale, and here's what he had to say.
Tell us a little bit about the conversation that landed Leonard Nimoy in the season finale, if you would, please.
J.J. Abrams: I believe what happened was it began with an e-mail that I sent to him - oh no, this is what happened, this is what happened. I remember, I called him and I just essentially started begging, and I told him that we were doing this show.
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J.J. Abrams Stages a 'Diamond Heist'
17 March 2009 7:02 AM, PDT
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Never one to limit himself to a genre, J.J. Abrams is jumping out of the bold world of outer space and into a different sort of action. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Paramount has grabbed the rights to Joshua Davis' Wired article "The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist," for Abrams to produce and possibly direct.
The article, which will be published in the magazine's April issue, outlines the true story of a massive diamond heist in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2003, thieves cracked 10 layers of security to make off with a sweet amount of loot -- an estimated $100 million in diamonds, gold, and jewelry. In his research, Davis got the opportunity to talk to the incarcerated ringleader of the heist, and even got the man to reveal how it was done (which should come in handy for the film).
J.J. Abrams has come a long way over the years,
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