Justin Lin - 'Star Trek Beyond'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The Taipei-born filmmaker, who made his name with a Sundance sensation before helming four 'Fast and Furious' blockbusters in eight years, opens about his youth as an undocumented immigrant, Hollywood's resistance to diversity and his handling of his "most personal" film yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm to episode 74 of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards
0:13.7	podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and on this episode I am coming to you from
0:17.5	San Francisco with a very special guest. Justin Lynn is the 44-year-old Taiwanese American filmmaker best known for directing the Sundance
0:25.6	Sensation, Better Luck Tomorrow, then four installments over eight years of the Fast and
0:31.0	the Furious franchise, and now for succeeding
0:33.8	J.J. Abrams at the helm of the Star Trek franchise.
0:36.8	Star Trek Beyond the third film since Abrams rebooted the film franchise
0:41.0	opens on Friday.
0:42.4	Over the course of our conversation Lynn and I talk about his film franchise opens on Friday.
0:42.6	Over the course of our conversation, Lynn and I talk about his youth as an undocumented
0:46.7	immigrant growing up in California, about his desire and his struggles to get authentically
0:51.7	diverse films made in Hollywood, about his 20-year collaboration. his
0:54.0	20-year collaboration with the actor John Cho, which spans better luck tomorrow all the way through
0:58.5	Star Trek Beyond, about how he manages to handle all the CGI v effects and action of big blockbuster films without
1:06.1	losing focus of character and story as in a art house film and what it's been like for him to
1:11.0	enter the Star Trek universe which was a great comfort to him as a child,
1:15.2	and which he has now taken to, well, bold new places in a variety of ways, from blowing up iconic
1:21.4	set pieces to identifying one of the principal characters as a
1:25.2	game man.
1:26.2	We of course get into lots more beyond even that so I encourage you to check it out and get
1:30.3	to know one of the hottest young filmmakers in the business.
1:33.0	Without further ado, let's go to that conversation.
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