Writers’ strike may impact 2009 films

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‘Beam us down some justice’
The picket line Monday outside Paramount took on a “Trek” theme, with guild members wearing T-shirts quoting a line from Spock: “Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

One strike member carried a sign reading “Beam us down some justice.”

“This is really corporate greed vs. the creative people,” George Takei, who played helmsman Sulu in the original “Star Trek,” said outside the Paramount gates. “The story originates in the minds of the writers.”

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Screenwriters Orci and Kurtzman have visited the “Star Trek” set a couple of times “as fans, but we’re useless,” Orci said outside Paramount on Monday.

“We haven’t touched a line,” Kurtzman said, “and we won’t.”

“Angels & Demons” writer Goldsman said he was on set every day for his latest film, the Will Smith sci-fi tale “I Am Legend,” which opens Friday. As a plague survivor who might be the last man on Earth, Smith says little, and the scant dialogue in the film was carefully honed as shooting progressed, Goldsman said.

Work on “I Am Legend” might have been halted if the strike had hit during filming, Smith said.

“For a movie this size, we’d probably most likely just shut down and wait it out,” Smith said. “You don’t want to be in the $100 million movie range and not have every opportunity to get it right.”

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