Variety reports that JJ Abrams has been signed to write, produce and direct the 11th STAR TREK movie, along with his LOST team of Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk. Abrams will co-write the movie, which follows the Starfleet Academy years of Kirk and Spock, with his ALIAS and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Shatner’s going to have to lose weight.
Not Quite The Final Frontier
Link: A Writer’s Life: The Enterprise has a new Captain Lee Goldberg has some hot news via Variety about yet another Star Trek movie. Let me be clear about one thing. I am and always have been a giant Star
While I think it’s a great idea, I can hear the screaming about other actors playing Kirk and Spock already starting…..
If Harve Bennett is alive, he must be hopping mad. He had a script with the same premise when he was producing the Trek movies. But Roddennberry didn’t like it and let it be known through the fan networks, who then besieged Paramount with their disapproval. Paramount vetoed Bennett’s idea, which he was also going to direct.
I’ve heard this idea mentioned for years and I never got too excited about it – until now, that is.
ALIAS and LOST are both amazing shows. J.J. Abrams has a lot of talent. It’ll be interesting to see what he does with Star Trek.
I have no doubt it will be very entertaining.
“which follows the Starfleet Academy years of Kirk and Spock”
Your wrong about the other actors being the problem. As far as my Star Trek knowledge goes, Spock and Kirk were not at the Academy togeather. I think Spock is about twenty or thirty years older.
Not Quite The Final Frontier
Link: A Writer’s Life: The Enterprise has a new Captain Lee Goldberg has some hot news via Variety about yet another Star Trek movie. Let me be clear about one thing. I am and always have been a giant Star