Rob’s Finds

I may have been away for the last few weeks, but Rob Fuller wasn’t, jamming my emailbox with one great web find after another. So here we go, another installment of Rob’s Finds. 

Rob starts us out with this: A 1973 letter from “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry to one of the show’s fans. Here’s the first page:

Key highlights: Roddenberry explains that Trek had no “magic formula” other than focusing on people. And Spock looked like the Devil because it was “provocative to women.”

Go here to this great website “Letters of Note” to read the rest.

Then this story which hit the wires a week or so ago: Pirates 4 Script Lost In London:

Joining the ranks of the Confederate battle plans for Antietam, the original recordings of The Clash’s London Calling and other famous left-behind items, the script for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film was accidentally abandoned by a Disney executive in a London cafe earlier this week.

In a bit of good luck, though, the script was picked up by an anonymous film fan who decided to give it back unread. Curiously, the Good Samaritan chose to it to deliver it to the trashiest publication in the land, tabloid newspaper The Sun. Perhaps too distracted by publishing pictures of topless women to read the document, Sun editors in turn handed it back to Disney.

Wonder if that Disney exec is roommates with the Apple employee who lost the next iPhone.

Speaking of the iPhone 4, here’s a short film shot and edited entirely on one of the little buggers.

What do you think the chances are that Christopher Nolan will shoot Batman 3 on an iPhone 4? Check out these 5 minutes of clips from Inception and see what you think the answer might be:

Maybe an iPhone 4000!

Thanks, Rob, for another installment of Rob’s Finds.