From syfyportal, "No, friends. "Star Trek XI" is not going to be a prequel. In fact, it's going to take the "Casino Royale" and "Batman Begins" route -- something that SyFy Portal has reported repeatedly in the past -- and be a reimagination of the Star Trek franchise."The challenge of the movie is to be 100 percent true to the fanbase but also to bring in a whole new group of people who have never seen Trek before," Alex Kurtzman, who is writing "Star Trek XI" with Roberto Orci, recently told MTV. We're not going to start totally from scratch," Orci said. "We want it to feel like it's updated and of the now. That's actually the discussions we're having now: How to keep the look of the universe, yet have it not look like nothing's new. It's tricky."
While Federation types such as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and Capt. Kathryn Janeway have preferred to talk before firing phasers, Kurtzman said the new film will be more attuned to Capt. Kirk of old.
"There will be more action in this movie than any Trek that's preceded it," Kurtzman said. With more action, apparently there also is some more money in the coffers to put it together.
"It'll be the biggest one" in terms of budget, Orci said. "The economic models of the other [films] were very much based on the fans out there and their purchasing power. With this one, we're going for the broad audience to bring people into Trek for the first time."
"It'll be the biggest one" in terms of budget, Orci said. "The economic models of the other [films] were very much based on the fans out there and their purchasing power. With this one, we're going for the broad audience to bring people into Trek for the first time."
Joining Orci and Kurtzman is director J.J. Abrams as well as several other key people from the "Mission: Impossible III" production including production designer Scott Chambliss and director of photography Daniel Mindel.
"We've been watching [Star Trek] all our lives," Orci said. "I've even read the books. Trek, more than anything, has always been about the human interactions. It's all about the human soul."
"Star Trek XI" is being planned for a Christmas 2008 release.
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"...to keep the look of the universe, yet have it not look like nothing's new. It's tricky."
I'll bet.
Big budget, lots of action, J.J. Abrams -- this could be a lot of fun. I certainly feel more confident about this than I do about Halloween or FF2.
There's a little more at stake, wouldn't you agree?
Yes I would. I'd rank the stakes as somewhere below a SW movie (in a hypothetical time when all 6 weren't finished) and somewhere above Casino Royale.
I was just thinking of various upcoming projects and their respective suck/not suck probabilities.
Yeah, I agree about that part.
I'm a little irritated that they aren't pulling Shatner, Nimoy, Stewart, Mulgrew, Brooks, Ryan etc. all together into one movie (while they can). But I understand how that's just not the right direction to go.
I love the alternating avatars when you and I are talking here: it's like "scary pumkin; shmuck; scary pumkin; shmuck."
It's easy to imagine dialogue like this:
"YOU MUST GO TO THE LAST PUMKIN PATCH IN ENGLAND"
"But...um..."
"THERE YOU WILL LEARN FROM AN ANCIENT DRUID ABOUT THE CURSE OF ALL HALLOW'S EVE"
"Um...listen...I'm just..."
An then Samara jumps in to say, "Boo!"
Tiny Samara!
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