According to Variety, "As Paramount Pictures readies the May 8 release of its 'Star Trek' franchise relaunch, the studio is moving forward with a sequel, and has hired Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof to pen the screenplay.
J.J. Abrams, who directed and produced the latest chapter, is onboard to produce the follow-up alongside his Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk. No decision has been made yet on whether Abrams will return behind the camera for the sequel.
Story is still in the embryonic stage, but the trio are aiming to deliver their script to the Melrose studio by Christmas for what would likely be a summer 2011 release.
'There's obviously a lot of hubris involved in signing on to write a sequel of a movie that hasn't even come out yet,' said Lindelof, co-creator with Abrams of ABC's 'Lost' who produced the upcoming 'Trek' but did not contribute to Orci and Kurtzman's screenplay. 'But we're so excited about the first one that we wanted to proceed.'
As for potential storylines, Kurtzman stressed that the writing team will wait to take a cue from fan reaction about which direction to go.
'Obviously we discussed ideas, but we are waiting to see how audiences respond next month,' he said. 'With a franchise rebirth, the first movie has to be about origin. But with a second, you have the opportunity to explore incredibly exciting things. We'll be ambitious about what we'll do.'"
Obviously Paramount is very excited about this franchise and they hope to remake it for the next generation and have plenty of sequels. The hype seems to be pretty big for this film if a sequel is already underway. It isn't that unexpected when you realize the film has broken records for the amount of times the trailer was watched on Apple.com.
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
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