Template:Realworld Template:2009spoiler Scott Thomas Suggs Trimble (born 15 April 1977; age 47) is a Location Scout and Location Manager hailing from San Francisco, California. He was the Key Assistant Location Manager and a Location Scout on 2009's Star Trek. In addition to location work, Trimble also shot a cameo as a Klingon prison guard, but his scene was deleted from the final cut of the film. [1]
Working on Trek
Trimble first worked on the film from August through December of 2007. He returned to the production in January 2008 and stayed with it until filming wrapped in April, working on the film for a total of eight months (167 days). He found many of the locations that were seen in the movie, including:
- portions of the Corvette chase scene;
- Riverside Shipyard;
- various Iowa roads near the bar and the shipyard;
- the rocky landscapes of Vulcan shot in Emery County, Utah;
- the drilling platform fight scene above Vulcan;
- glacial landscapes of Delta Vega shot in Alaska;
- some first unit shooting of Delta Vega in Los Angeles;
- Montgomery Scott's hangar on Delta Vega;
- James T. Kirk's childhood home in Iowa, although this scene was cut from the movie;
- pastoral landscapes on Romulus which would have accompanied the holographic image of Nero's wife, but they were cropped out of the final cut; and
- multiple locations aboard the USS Enterprise:
- the engineering bay
- the engineering corridors
- the engineering main station
- the weapons room
- the communications center
- the water turbine room
Trimble also scouted locations for every other scene in the film. This included many locations in Los Angeles that had never been shot for a film before. He also scouted the majority of Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Golden Gate bridge, central and southern Utah, central Alaska and its panhandle, and northern British Columbia, Canada. He also conducted research for overseas locations, including Reykjavik, Iceland, though the film was ultimately shot entirely in the United States. Trimble was also the one who initiated the corporate deal between Paramount Pictures and Anheuser-Busch; the Budweiser plant in Van Nuys, California, was used for the scenes shot in Enterprise's engineering bay.
For his location work on Star Trek, Trimble was nominated as Assistant Location Manager of the Year for Features by the 14th Annual California on Location Awards (COLAs). The award ultimately went to his fellow Assistant Location Manager Kathy McCurdy for the same film.
Trimble himself is a die-hard Trekkie and calls his work on Star Trek "a dream come true;" it had been his childhood dream to one day work on a Star Trek project. As a resident Trekkie, his knowledge of the Star Trek universe helped out during production. In a statement following his COLA nomination for Star Trek, Trimble said: "I am very excited about the many creative contributions that I made in regards to finding and securing the amazing locations that you’ll eventually see in this film." [2]
- The location information above came directly from Scott Trimble following the release of the movie in May 2009.
Other location work
His first job in the location department came in January 1999 when he scouted locations for an Adidas commercial. He has since scouted or assistant managed locations for such films as The Princess Diaries, Sweet November (starring Robert Joy and Frank Langella), Hulk (starring Eric Bana), 50 First Dates, Alpha Dog (starring Anton Yelchin), Reign Over Me (featuring John de Lancie), Rocky Balboa, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Hancock (featuring Elizabeth Dennehy). He also did location work for such television shows as Jack & Bobby, Presidio Med, House, M.D. (starring Jennifer Morrison), CSI, CSI: Miami, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Trimble collaborated with Star Trek director and producer J.J. Abrams on several other projects. In August 2006, Trimble was an Assistant Location Manager and Location Scout on one episode of Abrams' series Alias. He then served as Key Assistant Location Manager and Location Scout on the 2006 film Mission: Impossible III, directed by Abrams. Most recently, Trimble helped procure locations for the pilot of the upcoming medical drama Anatomy of Hope, also directed by Abrams.
Trimble was awarded the Robin Eickman Memorial Mentorship Award at the 9th Annual California on Location Awards (COLAs) in October 2003. He has since won two COLAs: one for his work on Mission: Impossible III and another as Key Assistant Location Manager and Location Scout for 2007's Transformers. Incidentally, both of these films – like 2009's Star Trek – were written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Most recently, Trimble scouted locations in Los Angeles for four episodes of NBC's hit science fiction series, Heroes. Like Star Trek, this series stars Zachary Quinto, who returns to his role as the villainous Sylar. Trimble is currently working as Key Assistant Location Manager and Location Scout on the highly-anticipated Iron Man 2, based on the Marvel Comics character and to be distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Other industry work
Trimble actually began his film career as an extra, appearing in such films as Radio Flyer (featuring make-up effects by Joel Harlow) and Flubber (starring Clancy Brown, Christopher McDonald and Wil Wheaton). He eventually became an Extras Casting Assistant, working with background performers in films like Bicentennial Man and on the television series Nash Bridges.
In addition to his location work, Trimble has acquired experience as an assistant director, production assistant (on films such as Bedazzled and The Matrix Reloaded), production coordinator (on 2005's The Zodiac, featuring Brad William Henke), assistant production coordinator (on films such as High Crimes, starring Ashley Judd, Bruce Davison, Jude Ciccolella, and John Billingsley, and The Sweetest Thing), marketing assistant (for Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 2), and camera operator.
Personal life
Trimble is the son of Tom Trimble, an emergency room nurse, and Gail Trimble, a grower and exhibitor of roses. Trimble also had some show business in his very distant family. He is the 4th cousin twice removed of Clarence Nash, the longtime voice of Donald Duck. He is also the great-grandnephew of Charles Darnton, a silent film screenwriter.
Trimble attended Terra Linda High School in San Rafael, California, from 1991 through 1995. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley in May 1999, with a major Anthropology (with an emphasis on Historical Archaeology) and minors in Dramatic Arts (Acting) and Scandinavian (Folklore / Mythology).
In 1993, Trimble earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Later, in the mid-1990s, Trimble volunteered at U.C. San Francisco Medical Center, and he worked at U.C. Berkeley's University Health Services. He also did dig and laboratory work for various archaeologists in Northern California. In the early 2000s, he was a Disaster Services Volunteer for the American Red Cross.
He is still an active participant in the science and skepticism communities. He is a member of the James Randi Educational Foundation and he has lent his film industry skills to such TV shows as Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not, MythBusters, and The Skeptologists.
Trimble owns a pet German shepherd named Sedona Louella Trimble, or "Sadie," who is also involved in show business. Sadie has appeared in several films, including Undiscovered (starring Peter Weller), the aforementioned Alpha Dog, Man in the Chair (starring Christopher Plummer), Maki (starring Clint Howard), and the upcoming Paramount Pictures release Case 39. [3]
External links
- STST Locations - official site
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