Star Trek XI
Canadaka @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:50 pm
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04.21.2006
BREAKING NEWS: J.J. Abrams to Produce "Trek XI"
J.J. Abrams, producer of hit shows Lost and Alias, as well as director of the upcoming Paramount film "Mission: Impossible III," is slated to produce and possibly direct the next Star Trek feature, according to today's Daily Variety and sources at Paramount Pictures. There is no title as yet for the new movie, but it will be the eleventh in the franchise. (Until a title is selected, we will usually refer to the project as simply "Star Trek XI.")
Although there isn't an official Paramount press release announcing the movie, it is a confirmed project under development with a 2008 release date targeted. Word about the Abrams project surfaced this morning (April 21) in the daily trade paper. He will be writing the script with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who penned "M:i:III." STARTREK.COM will keep you up to date on all official statements as they are released.
According to Variety, the proposed story will focus on the early days of James T. Kirk and Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and their first mission in space. UPDATE 04.27.06: Abrams has since indicated this may not be the case; see this article for his recent comments.
Abrams' producing partners from Lost, Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk, are cited as being producers on "Trek XI." This project is separate from the previously rumored script developed by Eric Jendresen and overseen by Rick Berman. The former Star Trek producer is not involved in this project.
This announcement is exciting news, and we look forward to following developments on this project every step of the way!
I missed this news, there had been rumours of course, but this is solid. And i'm glad someone else is producing it, need a change from Rick Berman.
PluggyRug @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:56 pm
Hope it's better than the last two, both were a little weak.
BartSimpson @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:10 pm
PluggyRug PluggyRug:
Hope it's better than the last two, both were a little weak.
The last one sucked in such new and amazing ways. It wasn't a movie at all, really, just a long winded episode of ST:TNG and not a very good episode at that.
Abrams, one would hope, will breathe new life into the whole thing and I'd hope he'd go in a new direction rather than the past - as they did with Enterprise.
ridenrain @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:25 pm
Set Phasers for vacume money....
Nothing I love more than a galaxy filled with races that are almost the same as humans except with funny foreheads, skin tone, hair, etc.
Their aliens, but low budget aliens.
Yank-in-NY @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:06 pm
I read somewhere recently it is supposed to be about the Earth-Romulan Empire War.
Canadaka @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:11 pm
Yank-in-NY Yank-in-NY:
I read somewhere recently it is supposed to be about the Earth-Romulan Empire War.
yah thats what the rumours are. I hope so, that would be sweet.
start of the federation, romulan wars. So the timeline would be sometime after the end of Enterprise tv series. So they could use that crew.
I also heard a rumour that it might be about Kirk and Spock during there academy days, ho they came to be.
MrMarch @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:44 pm
Is Star Trek still around? Hopefully not 
xerxes @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:53 pm
I thought the arrival of Abrams was to create another TV series?
Either way, he'll be a fresh change from Rick Berman who ruined the series.
Patrick_Ross @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:48 pm
I hate to sound like a total DS9 mark, but...
I think a DS9 movie is needed. So many loose threads.
Yank-in-NY @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:51 pm
I'd like to see 7 of 9 on IMAX. 
Patrick_Ross @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:55 pm
Damn! Now THAT'S what I'M talking about!
SireJoe @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:35 pm
I was pretty sure the rumours about spock and kirk were said to be wrong, or that they have chosen not to go that way....I hope anyways...I wouldnt go for that to much.
I would LOVE to see a DS9 movie.....Dominion, Federation, Klingons, romulans, kardaassians(sp?), I would love to see that with a high budget.
xerxes @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:37 pm
Yank-in-NY Yank-in-NY:
I'd like to see 7 of 9 on IMAX.
Preferbly R-rated!
And sireJoe, it's Cardassians.
xerxes @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:38 pm
Yank-in-NY Yank-in-NY:
I'd like to see 7 of 9 on IMAX.
Preferbly R-rated!
And sireJoe, it's Cardassians. But yeah, a DS9 movie would be good. They had some excellent actors in that series, but it was writen into oblivion.
Arctic_Menace @ Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:05 pm
I wanna see all the Captains (Sisco, Janeway, Kirk, Archer, Picard) All meet in a wierd 5th dimension type place, and have to save the world. That would be cool.....