Caffeinated Clint
No Kirk or Spock?
Last week the trades announced that J.J Abrams would be producing and direct the next “Star Trek” film – with it later revealed that Abrams’ “MI:3” star Philip Seymour Hoffman was in talks to star in – , a prequel that would fix on the younger years of pointy-eared Spock and his questionably more human space companion, James T.Kirk. BUT…Did Variety get some of it wrong, though? According to Abrams, they did indeed. Not only was the film prematurely announced, but also the trades mightn’t have even reported the correct details about the storyline they’ll be using – it might not be about Kirk and Spock, after all.
Speaking to Empire Online, an understandably cheesed Abrams said “The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation. People learned that I was producing a Star Trek film, that I had an option to direct it, they hear rumours of what the thing was going to be and ran with a story that is not entirely accurate.”
Though he won’t reveal what the storyline will be about, Abrams hints that it won’t feature Spock or Kirk at all. That fits in with news reported over the weekend that Philip Seymour Hoffman would be playing the ship’s doctor – who isn’t ‘Bones’.
Still, Abrams isn’t ruling out bringing some of the original characters back for the new film. “Those characters are so spectacular. I just think that… you know, they could live again.”
