Confirmed: Star Trek 11

[nwdavis]

Confirmed: Star Trek 11 to Focus on Earliest Adventures of Kirk and Spock
From the blog:
/Film - Blogging the Reel World
Sunday, June 24, 2007

We have finally received official confirmation on the plot of Star Trek XI (kinda). In an article in Sunday’s NY Times, screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman revealed that the film focuses “on the earliest adventures of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock.” Okay, so most of us already knew or assumed this, but I believe this is the first time it’s been officially confirmed.
And I’ve always found it amusing when a film has a release date before a script. In the article, the Star Trek scribes tell this interesting anecdote:

“What was a little daunting, was while we were writing it, they sent over a poster with the release date on it. We hadn’t written ‘fade in’ yet,” said Kurtzman.
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Orci added:

“We’ve never had a movie poster before we’ve had a script. That’s pressure.”



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[Sausy]

Re-imagining the mythology....while interesting,can people like William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy be successfully replaced as the Kirk and Spock of our experiences and imaginations with two young Hollywood bucks....because that's what it's going to take ,two major young up and comers,to attract interest...and will the fans buy it?Heard Leonard Nimoy accepted a cameo in this passing of the torch,but Shatner wasn't asked and of course,HE...IS..PISSED!

 

[GL]

as a total and complete trek nerd i must admit, i have my doubts.

i'm willing to see how and where this goes, but...

 

[springboksfan]

Okay, I can officially say I have no interest in this now. Why can't they let go of TOS and move forward? What would be so wrong with a TNG/Voyager movie? I'm sad but not surprised.

 

[Sausy]

as a total and complete trek nerd i must admit, i have my doubts.

i'm willing to see how and where this goes, but...

My feelings exactly...at the moment,but I'm as well trying to be open minded.You can re-imagine a "Battle star Galactica"...and that was met at first with great doubts.But an icononic franchise that has had forty years of television spinoffs,ten movies,countless comic and action-adventure books and fan conventions,not so easy.

 

[Sausy]

Boooooooo! How come Voyager and DSN never got a movie! Give them a movie!

Because the director chosen by Paramount,JJ Abrams ,followed only TOS and TNG,and doesn't give a hoot about DS9(my personal favotite) and Voyager(seven years wasted,who cares?).

 

[GL]

My feelings exactly...at the moment,but I'm as well trying to be open minded.You can re-imagine a "Battle star Galactica"...and that was met at first with great doubts.But an icononic franchise that has had forty years of television spinoffs,ten movies,countless comic and action-adventure books and fan conventions,not so easy.

agreed.

with bsg (i still can't believe this will be the final season!) the show has been off the air for a good long while that taking a daring step to re-imagine the program was refreshing. with trek, gosh... there is no wiggle room.

 

[lifeisamazing]

Voyager Needs A Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DoctorGiggles25]

Sweet. I hope it lives up to the hype....

 

[dr_beat]

Ok, note to movie creators: Star Wars prequels!!! Please, don't do it!

 

[cAndId]

I am skeptical, but TOS was made 40 years ago... i think it could work out now. For the record, I disliked the star wars prequels, the first movie was terrible. I loved Voyager and DS9 ahead of the others, episodes like Equinox and Scorpion were unmatched in any of the series, I loved the last half of DS9.

 

[Andreus]

the scuttlebut on who will be playing the leads are as follows....

kirk.... matt damon... both abrams and damon have expressed interest in damon playing the roll so it looks like that is going to happen

spock... adrien brody.... he is said to be luke warm to the idea though, and one of the leads from heroes is actively pursuing the roll

mccoy... gary sinise... but a paramount exec has acnowledged that mccoy may wind up not actually being much of a player in the film due to its intense action based plot, so he may not make it to the film.

im with Springs.... i thought they should have just joined all the casts for a general trek type flick with janeway as the admiral of the fleet that would be set in that time period....

for some reason the paramount people have decided that they burned out the audience on that concept due to having too many shows on the tube at once and dont want to invest in that trek era concept anymore.

very silly if you ask me.

 

[Paxton]

At least, they're given the story a fresh start!!!.
But I think there won't be big names attached to the movie. Looks like they want to build a not very expensive franchise, in the way X-MEN started.

 

[davy]

i think i'll give the movie a shot.

hell... i'll give anything star trek a shot.

 

[RobinGoodfellow]

Could be interesting; especially if they involve the Kobiyashi Maru and the prank war (which involved transporters in the conclusion...).

RG

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

i think it's time for a star trek reboot

it was getting stale

but the only way it will work is if they use unknowns for the leads

i just can't see matt damon playing kirk

 

[GL]

i think it's time for a star trek reboot

it was getting stale

but the only way it will work is if they use unknowns for the leads

i just can't see matt damon playing kirk

you know, j michael stryzinski (of babylon 5 fame and a whole bunch of brilliant comic book stories) floated a treatment that would have re-booted the series. a year ago he finally released it to the web and what i read of it would have been great. i want to say that i started a thread about it in this forum so it's probably buried somewhere in here. it's shame that paramount no longer has the balls to do something brilliant opting instead to do an salad says treatment.

 

[lifeisamazing]

Okay extending on my post from earlier this week, I don't see this movie going very far. Yes, the last movie was TNG: Nemsis movie, which ended the storyline, but the original star trek from 40 years ago, isn't that popular among the whole star trek fan base. TNG and DS9 are the more popular story lines, which is why, I think this idea, about a Pre-Kirk years is a very bad idea. Personally they needed to make a movie to end DS9 since the Series Finale was left wide open for a movie or its own Spin-Off or ending Voyager with ending the BORG and Species 8472 war.

 

[Andreus]

the borg are gone. janeway killed them.

 

[dr_beat]

Okay extending on my post from earlier this week, I don't see this movie going very far. Yes, the last movie was TNG: Nemsis movie, which ended the storyline, but the original star trek from 40 years ago, isn't that popular among the whole star trek fan base. TNG and DS9 are the more popular story lines, which is why, I think this idea, about a Pre-Kirk years is a very bad idea. Personally they needed to make a movie to end DS9 since the Series Finale was left wide open for a movie or its own Spin-Off or ending Voyager with ending the BORG and Species 8472 war.

The DS9 finale wasn't left wide open. The only unresolved issue was whether Sisko went to the Prophets for a short time or forever.