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The next “Star Trek” movie is inching closer to it’s kick-off, with TrekMovie claiming Paramount has staked out a starting date for February.
The site also shed some [brief] details on the storyline, suggesting it’ll be set a few years after the previous film “Star Trek Into Darkness”.
While the movie is still not ‘technically’ greenlit until a detailed budget is finalized, TrekMovie is told that [director Roberto] Orci and the production team have already started pre-production, including “pre-vis,” early effects tests, set and wardrobe design and even some casting discussions for new characters.
As per usual, plot details are not forthcoming at this early stage. But it has already been established (at the end of Star Trek Into Darkness) that the crew were headed off into their five year mission. One tidbit that TrekMovie has picked up is that the film is set “well into” the five year mission (so it doesn’t pick up right after Star Trek Into Darkness). A source also tells TrekMovie that Earth will not play a significant role in the movie, unlike the previous two films. This is consistent with previous on-the-record comments from Orci, specifically how the film will delve into “uncharted territories” of “deep space” and deal with “new discoveries,” also hinting it will include new alien species.
The entire cast, headed by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, are expected to return for the tentatively titled”Star Trek 3″.
