In a 2019 interview with TrekMovie.com, Trumbull revealed that Spock’s spacewalk sequence, whereby he makes contact with mysterious entity V’Ger, was initially shot by Sensible. When Trumbull (who, because the particular photographic results director, can be on the hook for all the visuals within the movie) took a take a look at the scene, he was appalled. As Trumbull instructed TrekMovie:
“I assumed the entire thing simply seemed utterly unusable and simply not serviceable in any respect. Badly lit, badly designed, and it simply seemed like guys hanging on wires. And this was earlier than the extra present-day of wire elimination and a number of stuff we may do digitally. They simply did not pay any consideration to weightlessness or any of the issues related to that.”
Trumbull, whose integral contributions to “Shut Encounters of the Third Form” had just lately earned him an Academy Award nomination for Greatest Visible Results (which he misplaced to the “Star Wars” group), instantly requested Sensible a severe query. For a movie with a then-massive $44 million funds, Trumbull could not enable one thing this clunkily old style to make the ultimate minimize. So, with time operating out in post-production, he requested Sensible to let him reshoot the complete scene. How would Sensible, who had two Greatest Director Oscars on his shelf (for “West Aspect Story” and “The Sound of Music”), react to such a daring request?