J.J. Abrams recently said that they’re still working on the story, the script for STAR TREK 2, they have ideas but very early in the process. L.A. Times’ Geoff Boucher had a chat with co-writer Roberto Orci and director Abrams and actually got a bit of what their idea might be. Here’s what Abrams said…
“The ambition for a sequel to ‘Star Trek’ is to make a movie that’s worthy of the audience and not just another movie, you know, just a second movie that feels tacked on. The first movie was so concerned with just setting up the characters — their meeting each and galvanizing that family — that in many ways a sequel will have a very different mission. it needs to do what [the late 'Trek' creator Gene] Roddenberry did so well, which is allegory. It needs to tell a story that has connection to what is familiar and what is relevant. It also needs to tell it in a spectacular way that hides the machinery and in a primarily entertaining and hopefully moving story. There needs to be relevance, yes, and that doesn’t mean it should be pretentious. If there are simple truths — truths connected to what we live — that elevates any story — that’s true with any story.”
A STAR TREK 2 story that we today can relate to. Let’s see.. crappy economy, war in Iraq, unemployment, Kanye West being an A-hole at VMA.. so many issues to choose from.
Of course I exaggerated a little, I’m sure whatever allegory that Abrams and the gang choose to go with will be profound and still entertaining.
This is what Orci had to say..
“We’ve literally had two meetings now. We haven’t decided anything but we’re starting to circle around some ideas. We got a lot of fan response from the first one and a considerable amount of critical response and one of the things we heard was, ‘Make sure the next one deals with modern-day issues.’ We’re trying to keep it as up-to-date and as reflective of what’s going on today as possible. So that’s one thing, to make it reflect the things that we are all dealing with today.
Boucher then suggested it should be about Starfleet grappling with the ethics of torture or dealing with a rising terrorist threat like the politicized war with the Klingons. Orci replied with great enthusiasm and asked for more input.
What would be your idea for the story?
