You know… with all of the on again – off again rumours of future of the Star Trek movie franchise… it’s hard to get excited about any news that comes out about it. However, this seem worthy of some attention.
It looks like Paramount is bringing back Star Trek with Spock, James T. Kirk, Scotty and Dr. Mcoy. Here’s the catch… it’s going to be them as young men when they all first meet at the Academy. Hmmmm… I don’t know how I feel about that.
It’s also being reported that J.J. Abrams is going to direct and produce the new… ummm… old adventures of the crew. The good folks over at M&C give us the following:
Banking on the success of the upcoming ‘Mission: Impossible III’ (‘MI3’), Paramount has tapped J.J. Abrams to helm and produce the 11th installment. Assisting on the production side will be the extremely successful producing team from the ‘Lost’ TV series, Damon Lindel and Bryan Burk. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci co-writers from ‘MI3’ will work with Abrams on the screenplay.
Well, I really don’t mind these guys working on it… but I’m still ify on the whole “prequel” idea with younger characters from the original series. Can anyone other than William Shatner actually play James T. Kirk? Maybe. We’ll wait and see.
