A Journey into Bad Robot for a Look at J.J.’s ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’

There are many times I consider myself truly lucky to have a job of running a movie blog, but this was one of those one-in-a-million opportunities I’m still geeking out about. A week ago, on a Monday afternoon in Santa Monica, I was invited to visit the offices of Bad Robot, J.J. Abrams’ production company located just a few blocks from Cloverfield Blvd. It was part of a big press event for the 9-min IMAX exclusive prologue playing in front of select showings (see here) of The Hobbit in IMAX. Just the night before we were shown the full 9-min prologue at an actual IMAX theater (my video blog is here) but now we got to talk to all the people behind it, all the individuals responsible for creating this kick ass sequel to 2009’s sci-fi Star Trek. Being invited inside of Bad Robot is as rare an opportunity as visiting …