Star Trek writers are working hard on the sequel’s first draft. J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman didn’t give much information regarding ST2 in a SFX magazine interview. They just gave some hints…
TrekMovie.com was nice enough to post a few excerpts from the “extensive” article in SFX and Abrams had this to say about the upcoming follow up:
The universe that Roddenberry created was so vast. And so it’s hard to say there’s one particular thing that stands out as what the sequel must be. Which is on the one hand, a great opportunity. On the other hand it’s the greatest challenge – where do you go? What do you focus on? But I’m incredibly excited about the prospects.
Writing duo Kurtzman and Orci give a few hints about where they’re looking in the aforementioned vast universe of Gene Roddenberry.
Kurtzman: Starting at a premise of what you want to see and then working a story around it is not how we do it. You have to start with what is the right story. And that if you can say “That’s a story that Khan fits into”, that’s how you get to that. Not deciding on a menu list of items and then seeing if you can’t string them all together.Roberto Orci goes on to talk about the temptation of stuffing a film full of what audiences will want to see simply for the sake of likability and how they are trying to make a likable film that feels full without cramming everything in at once.
These guys have a tough job on their hands. Yes, the first one was awesome, and made them tons of money. The basically revived a dying franchise. But, how do they follow up that? Should they revisit old characters and past stories? Or should they come up with something entirely new? This is going to be debatable long after the movie is made and release. I believe they should do something entirely new. We’ll see.
What do you guys think? New version of old stuff? Or new stuff completely?
