Reactions to "Star Trek Into Darkness"

Nicholas Meyer (director "Wrath of Khan")

• “It is, on the one hand, nice to be so successful or beloved or however you want to describe it that somebody wants to do an homage to what you did and I was flattered and touched,” Meyer says. “But in my sort of artistic worldview, if you’re going to do an homage you have to add something. You have to put another layer on it, and they didn’t. Just by putting the same words in different characters’ mouths didn’t add up to anything, and if you have someone dying in one scene and sort of being resurrected immediately after there’s no real drama going on. It just becomes a gimmick or gimmicky, and that’s what I found it to be ultimately. This is just one person’s opinion, mine…but I found it more clever than satisfying.”
• Meyer, at a TIFF Lightbox screening of his "Wrath of Khan" mentioned that he know "Into Darkness" director J.J. Abrams when he was a boy.