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Saturday 3 October 2015
Review: Writing is Filming begins in Dubai for
sharp and precise new movie ‘Star Trek Beyond’
in ‘Cop Job’ JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press
BRUCE DESILVA DUBAI, United Arab Emir-
ates (AP) — Looking for a
Associated Press “vertical city” to stand in
for a futuristic world, actors
The Hamptons, a group of and filmmakers involved in
the film “Star Trek Beyond”
hamlets on Long Island’s ended up among the
gleaming towers of Dubai.
south fork, is one of Amer- “We came searching for
the future and found it,”
ica’s most opulent sum- said Jeffrey Chernov, one
of the film’s executive pro-
mer colonies — one that ducers.
“Star Trek Beyond,” the
is gradually crowding out third movie in the reboot of
the science-fiction series, is
what is left of the fishing the latest film to be partial-
ly shot in the United Arab
villages and workmen’s Emirates.
Others drawn here include
cottages that once dot- filmmakers like J.J. Abrams,
who helmed the last two
ted the shoreline. Sam Ac- “Star Trek” films and shot In this April 18, 2013 file photo, Justin Lin arrives at the Cin-
parts of the upcoming emacon Big Screen Awards red carpet and receives Director of
quillo, a former pro boxer “Star Wars: Episode VII” in the Year Award at Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas.
Abu Dhabi. The city was
turned cabinetmaker, also a location for the most Associated Press
recent “Fast & Furious” se-
stands astride these worlds, quel.
Chernov also was an ex-
not always entirely com- ecutive producer in 2011’s parts of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa dential towers and office
“Mission: Impossible — skyscraper for the movie. buildings.
fortable in either. Ghost Protocol,” which Speaking Wednesday to Actor Chris Pine, who plays
saw actor Tom Cruise scale journalists with other cast Capt. James T. Kirk in the
This makes him well posi- This book cover image re- members in Dubai, Cher- rebooted films, described
leased by The Permanent nov said filmmakers found opening up the blinds of his
tioned to pursue his hob- Press shows “Cop Job,” by Dubai’s skyscrapers and fu- hotel room to look out on
Chris Knopf. turistic vistas appealing. “such a stunning city.”
by — sticking his nose into On Friday, authorities in “It looks like whatever to-
Associated Press Dubai shut down busy morrow will be,” Pine said.
police investigations. In Sheikh Zayed Road for a “It’s future land. It’s incred-
At first, Sam wonders why, film shoot. A helicopter ible.”
the past, Sam’s meddling but it doesn’t take him long filmed along the multi-lane Other actors involved in
to figure out that the victim highway cutting through “Star Trek Beyond,” direct-
has not been welcomed was a police informer, that the heart of Dubai, which ed by Justin Lin, include
two other “snitches” had includes a portion of the Idris Elba, Zachary Quinto
by the local authorities. In recently turned up dead Dubai Metro and tall resi- and Simon Pegg. q
and that officials fear an
fact, the district attorney’s insider might have leaked
their names to local drug
office has tried to bring smugglers.q
criminal charges against
him. But in “Cop Job,” the
sixth novel in this series,
the police chief and pros-
ecutor invite Sam to inves-
tigate the murder of a dis-
abled war veteran.
Afghan actress urges Afghan women to keep working
YOUKYUNG LEE Afghan actress Marina Gulbahari adjusts her hair during an in- who works in movie and teenager selling magazines
Associated Press terview at the Busan International Film Festival in Busan, South TV production in Afghani- at a park in Kabul, worrying
BUSAN, South Korea (AP) Korea, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. stan. “About some years about how to help feed her
— When Marina Gulbahari ago (I) got some warnings family.
walked the red carpet on Associated Press from the Taliban that you “What can I do to support
the first night of Asia’s larg- cannot work. If you appear my family?” she said. “It
est film festival, she showed So walking the red carpet “For the moment, living in again, we will kill you.” was (my) goal to find some-
the world more than the and co-hosting the open- Afghanistan is difficult for Although little known out- thing to bring home.”
colorful traditional Afghan ing event at the 20th an- normal people. For women side the festival circle, Although Gulbahari nev-
dress she was wearing. nual Busan International who are working as an ac- Gulbahari is already part er went to acting school,
She showed the world the Film Festival was a big step tress, it’s more dangerous of movie history in her those moments in her life
face of women in Afghani- not only for the 23 year-old for them,” she said in an country. Her first role was provided lessons that act-
stan. Gulbahari but for her fellow interview translated by her as a young girl who had ing schools could not.
For Afghan women, show- country people. husband Noorullah Azizi, to be disguised as a boy “I have experiences. Tragic
ing one’s face in public, to support her female-only experiences,” she said with
not to mention on a huge household in “Osama.” It a beaming smile.
screen, is disliked by con- was Afghanistan’s first post- Although she is now a big
servatives there, even as Taliban movie and it won star in Afghanistan, she
the fall of the hard-line Is- the Golden Globe prize for “never” thought she would
lamic Taliban regime al- best foreign film in 2003. become an actress.
lowed women to return to Like the young girl she The first movie she saw was
schools, workplaces and played, Gulbahari’s family “Titanic,” watching a vid-
even to parliament. Many needed her to support her eotape copy when she was
women still wear a burqa, parents and her seven sib- nine years old even though
the clothing that covers lings when she was young. the movie was banned un-
women from head to toe When she was discovered der the Taliban. She did not
with a mesh panel over the by Siddiq Barmak, direc- understand that the mov-
face. tor of “Osama,” she was a ie was fiction.q
