'Star Trek 2'

Script writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kutzman sat down recently with SciFiWire to discuss their thoughts on "Star Trek’s" success, where they might take the franchise down the road and what type of story the sequel might follow. Both writers have their heads together when they both have the same thought for the franchise: DON’T LET IT SUCK!

There is nothing set in stone as far as they are concerned and they haven’t even started working on a script yet (unless you count agreeing to do another movie as working). Orci said during the interview:

“We’re going to start thinking about it any second now. But we’re still just having a mental sorbet before we jump back in. And, you know, just seeing all the reactions to the movie. We want to make sure we take it all in and really figure out what worked and what didn’t and proceed from there. But now that we have … an open canvas, … anything can happen.”

Hopefully "Star Trek 2" will be as good as "Star Trek", but it all starts with the story and if they don’t pick the right one to tell in "Star Trek 2" then the whole franchise will fail before it really ever gets started. Orci has a grasp of that concept though:

“[you] just can’t use old things willy-nilly,… there’s still an internal logic that has to be followed. … We could still cross some lines [if] we think, “Oh, we can do anything now.” And a savvy fan will go, “Well, technically, [you can't].”

He is right on that statement because some plot points and questions about physics are to be expected; it is, after all, a science fiction movie about traveling through space with aliens while moving faster than the speed of light.

As far as the story goes, Orci and Kutzman aren’t sure if they will follow a new original concept that stays within the parameters of the Trek universe, re-tell another modified story from the show or mash the two ideas together. I wouldn’t plan on hearing anything about the script either until after "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (they wrote that too) starts winding down and they have time to regroup their thoughts.

More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Source: Screen Rant