With Paramount keen on setting up Star Trek 2, the LA Times caught up with JJ Abrams, who had only signed on to ST2 as producer, with a possible option to direct. Abrams revealed that despite the bean-counters’ enthusiasm, he was more interested in telling a compelling story.
“[The next film] needs to tell a story that has connection to what is familiar and what is relevant,” he said. “It also needs to tell it in a spectacular way that hides the machinery and in a primarily entertaining and hopefully moving story.
“There needs to be relevance, yes, and that doesn’t mean it should be pretentious. If there are simple truths - truths connected to what we live - that elevates any story - that’s true with any story.”
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aikaseltzer
Jan 9th 2013, 11:38
Everyone, follow Damon Lindelof on Twitter. No, I am not his publicist. But the guy is really funny. Also, excited as hell for TF mag’s STiD cover.
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garymakin69etc
Jan 9th 2013, 14:59
I think this movie will make double what the first film did.
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Hadouken76
Jan 9th 2013, 17:09
Because Lindelof's sci-fi track record has been SUPERB,
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FBKTudor
Jan 9th 2013, 23:15
Peter Weller has been in Star Trek before. In Enterprise he headed up a xenophobic terrorist group called Terra Nova. This film could be a continuation of that. Also, in the 2009 Star Trek, Kirk's brother (who is in the deleted scene, as well as at the side of the road hitchhiking as a young Kirk speeds by in his step-dad's vintage car) is called 'Johnnie'. He appears to be running away as he cannot bare to live under his dad's roof. Maybe a tough time has made him a bitter, evil adult, who envies his brother's success... Maybe John Harrison is Kirk's brother... (Sure, the accents are different, but if he ran away and grew up in good ole blighty, over time his accent could change). It's just a theory, and who knows, maybe he is Khan, or Gary Mitchel (as Karl Urban suggested accidentally during Dredd's press junkets).
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