It always does! I did get to see a fair number of still photos of the settings and the characters in costume. Unlike the two Star Trek films, I didn’t get to see the film while I was writing, which was a shame - it would have made the novelization even better. No, I just saw it on Saturday morning, the day after it opened. Were you at least shown the film in advance? Related: The Wildest (and Totally Untrue) 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Rumors I’m sure we’ll bump into each other one of these days, and talk about anything other than Star Trek and Star Wars. I’ve been on sets with directors making nine figure-plus films and you’re lucky if you can get a midnight meeting with them while they’re eating dinner….

Doing a small film is a 24/7 project, and a film like this more like a 25/7 job. I used the same system when I did the novelizations of J.J.’s two Star Trek movies, so it was quite easy.ĭid you have any direct contact with J.J. It was sent in pieces to me via email, and it was very, very secure. It probably makes the encryption at the NSA look amateurish. They didn’t say that, but then, that would be part of the secrecy! No, there are a couple of systems that studios use now to send stuff like that.

What level of security was required for you to access the script? In my imagination, it involves a flash drive that self-destructs after two hours.

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