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Writers Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman announce
The next “Star Trek” movie has a title.
Nope, nothing as imaginative as “The Undiscovered Country”, “The Search for Spock”, “The Wrath of Khan” or “Generations”….
… but merely “Star Trek”.
Yep, just “Star Trek”. Thats the title. The full title.
“That’s the intended title. I don’t think we want to put any colons or anything on it,” writer Robert Orci tells MTV, confirming that J.J Abrams is definitely directing the movie.
“When we finally turned in the script I started lining up other directors, and that really got [Abrams] going,” Orci joked. Rumors that the film would center on an early adventure of the crew or even on Kirk and Spock’s Starfleet Academy days — unlikely, though no doubt provoked by a long-dormant “Trek” movie idea — have yet to be addressed directly.
“There will be more action in this movie than any ‘Trek’ that’s preceded it,” Kurtzman promised. Orci, without discussing a specific budget, added, “It’ll be the biggest one. The economic models of the other [films] were very much based on the fans out there and their purchasing power. With this one we’re going for the broad audience to bring people into ‘Trek’ for the first time.”
What they will say, however, is that the film will be a starship-based adventure. “I don’t know how you make ‘Star Trek’ without a starship,” Orci laughed. “You have to trek through the stars, so you need a ship for that. There, you got something out of us!”
Orci and Kurtzman also confirmed that the film is not in any way a prequel but a reimagining of the franchise. Whether that means a whole new look for “Trek” remains in question. “We’re not going to start totally from scratch,” Orci said. “We want it to feel like it’s updated and of the now. That’s actually the discussions we’re having now: how to keep the look of the universe yet have it not look like nothing’s new. It’s tricky.”
Orci and co-writer Alex Kurtzman also revealed that they’ve met with Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner about having them reprise their roles – briefly – as Spock and Kirk for the film.
