I’m finally going to be able to watch STAR TREK this week so I figured let’s pack in some coolness from the movie into this one post. io9 has that new behind-the-scene set image where J.J. Abrams is directing the crew of the young Enterprise. Not too long ago, it was announced that the writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will be developing the sequel but they’re not doing it by themselves, TV’s Lost genius Damon Lindelof is helping them out. Comingsoon.net got the chance to have a conversation with the the trio to see what they might have in mind for the storyline.
Damon Lindelof: Alex, Bob and I are going to be writing it together. We’ve started preliminary talks with J.J., but obviously it’s almost jinxing it to get too far down the road. We want it to come out, we hope it does well, and then we’ll take it to the next year.
Alex Kurtzman: We’re HOPING sequel. We had the amazing privilege of falling in love with these characters all over again.
Roberto Orci: Fans have been so important. We genuinely mean it when we say we want to wait and see what they think of the first movie. We want to see if we are lucky enough to get a demand for a second movie.
Comingsoon suggested 2 things, getting iconic episodes or elements from them and just put a new spin for the sequel to which the writers respond that they’ve actually incorporates that concept into this movie, that the fans could see their characters through a different lens, a different angle.
The other thing suggested was Javier Bardem as Khan.
Kurtzman: Oh my God!
Orci: Did you know we’ve actually mentioned that out loud as a possibility? What a great idea.
Lindelof: Come on. That’s a no-brainer. That would be the most amazing thing ever. Who would even what to see these [new] guys then? That’s the problem. You would just watch them for scenery
The vibrant video below is from MySpace artist on artist interview between young Spock, Zachary Quinto, and young Kirk, Chris Pine who claimed he got booed at the WonderCon.
