"Abrams had endured the wrath of Harry Knowles once before, when, years ago, aintitcool.com leaked his controversial script for a Superman remake (in Abrams' version, planet Krypton never got blown up, among other heresies)."First - it was the wrath of Drew McWeeny. At the time I was in Spain. Second - they say that Aintitcool.com leaked his script for a Superman remake. Um, no. Moriarty/Drew wrote a scathing criticism of the script, but the script was not leaked online by anyone at AICN and AICN does not do that. And I'd hardly call the script a remake of Richard Donner's film - it was essentially a complete reboot of the SUPERMAN mythology from the ground up. Which back at the time, I did a fairly lenghty interview with JJ about it, after having read the script - and at the time of Drew's scathing review - JJ was already knee deep into a massive 2nd draft that had already addressed many of those issues. That draft was more or less JJ seeing how far he could push things before reigning it back in. Having seen JJ's STAR TREK - had JJ been the director of his own script - I guarantee the film would've been fairly legendary by the time all was said and done in the process. AND - I'd say his experience on that helped informed how far he was willing to push the reinvention of the STAR TREK mythology for this film. As for the rest of EW's non-fact checked article. It's pretty dead on. I wouldn't say I was "Blubbering" when I saw Leonard Nimoy - I did tear up. After all, I was there to see a movie where he dies at the end, and wound up actually seeing Nimoy in person and the New movie to boot. But I suppose the idea of a tear in your eye can be reasonably stretched to being "Blubbering"
