Our friend Frosty over at
Collider.com chatted up the screenwriting team behind this week's highly anticipated
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and got them to spill a little bit about the upcoming
Star Trek sequel. These were the highlights of their conversation:
1) They don't know if J.J. Abrams is directing the sequel because he is still undecided. 2) They want to finish writing the sequel before Christmas. 3) Paramount wants to begin filming the sequel as soon as possible. 4) The screenwriting duo have been paying attention to what fans are saying online.
Collider.com also asked about the villain, and if they set anything in motion with the first film that would carry through to the second. Here's what they had to say about that:
"The exploration sci-fi plot where the unknown and nature itself is somehow an adversary or the villain model. That's an active discussion we're having right now. In terms of thinking about more than one movie, we want the movie to be self-contained in a way, but we're discussing the idea of having a couple of threads where if the second movie works, you could pick up into a cohesive whole. There was no thread more exciting or shocking for me when in
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock were you realize that Spock grabbed Bones and downloaded his Katra into him. When I saw
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, I was like, "What's going on here?" Two years later, you're watching it and you're like "They're geniuses! They're geniuses!" So we're trying to think if there's a version of that. But again,
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan does not rely on that thread, even though it turns out to be a thread. So we're thinking in those terms.
Go to
Collider.com for the rest of the interview.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opens this Wednesday, June 24th, 2009.
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Not thrilled!
Fate protects fools, little children and ships called Enterprise. Will Riker
Stop whining people, what's done is done, end of the day
Star Trek was epic, case closed.
It be disappointing if Abrahams doesn't return.
Now if the film was called Star Trek XI i would argee with your arguments :), ir well whatever star trek film they were one lol.
Personally though, if Abrams does do the sequel, I don't think he'll go over any content seen in the previous films. He'll want to do something new. Also, Todd89, as much as I'd like to see another TNG film, I think it's finished for good.
i myself would be interested in seeing Khan enter the story. that'd be neat, or combine elements from "Search for Spock" &" Wrath of Khan" to make "Star Trek 2" (2011).
They should do two more TNG films without Brent Spiner, same treatment but with the same actors. Explaining about the history of Trek, I still think we're seeing a pocket universe.