‘Star Trek’ Sequel Is On The Way
J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek has yet to be released but Paramount Pictures are feeling so confident in its potential success that they’ve already announced plans to move ahead with the sequel.
Writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof have been hired to pen the script to the sequel and produce. J.J. Abrams will also be involved as a producer (as will Orci and Kurtzman), however there’s been no confirmation that he will direct.
“There’s obviously a lot of hubris involved in signing on to write a sequel of a movie that hasn’t even come out yet,” said Lindelof. “But we’re so excited about the first one that we wanted to proceed.”
What will the storyline be?
“Obviously we discussed ideas, but we are waiting to see how audiences respond next month,” Kurtzman said. “With a franchise rebirth, the first movie has to be about origin. But with a second, you have the opportunity to explore incredibly exciting things. We’ll be ambitious about what we’ll do.”
Star Trek premieres May 8 and the sequel is tentatively slated for a US summer 2011 release.
Source: Variety
April 1st, 2009 at 7:08 am
Oh please please PLEASE let this be true.
*crosses fingers*