Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:13AM - By Damon Houx
In what may have been inevitable, J.J. Abrams has finally signed on to direct Star Trek 2. Though Paramount was hot for the sequel after the first film’s impressive domestic showing, Abrams went on to direct Super 8, and Hollywood considered turning Chris Pine into a movie star (there were a number of rumors about what he would do next, but mostly there’s been Unstoppable). Production is supposed to start later this year for what is more than likely a 2013 summer release date.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011 3:43PM - By Travis Woods
Attention age 18-24 male film viewing demographic—next year will be your year of years. Turns out the brains behind 2009’s Star Trek reboot will be releasing a video game next year that acts as a narrative “bridge” between the wildly successful, J.J. Abrams film and it’s even more wildly anticipated 2012 sequel. So, Trek, fans, you’ll be able to play a game that works as an interquel (yes, that’s a word) between two Star Trek movies. Let your minds be blown now.
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Monday, April 4, 2011 11:09AM - By Travis Woods
Star Trek nerds, prepare to celebrate—Star Trek and Star Trek 2 (the reboot versions) writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman plan on taking fan input on the Star Trek 2 script, which is currently in development. Which means my fanfic piece about the movie blogger who manages to seduce Uhura away from Spock might totally be happening in the sequel, gang!
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:04AM - By Travis Woods
While James Bond fans scored a big one today, fans of the Jack Ryan film franchise (The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears) will have to keep holding their collective breaths—Paramount is putting the spy franchise on the back burner as the new Jack Ryan, Chris Pine, is going to be busy starring as Captain Kirk in the rushed-release of Star Trek 2 next summer.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 4:08PM - By Krystal Clark
After the huge success of the Star Trek reboot in 2009 it was no surprise that a sequel was greenlit shortly after its release. The film already had a huge fan base thanks to the 40-plus years of previous television and movie installments to its credit. When you have such a sure deal you want to maximize the potential and expand the franchise as much as possible but according to screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, they’re not going into Star Trek 2 with the intent of setting up another sequel.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:38PM - By Krystal Clark
It looks like everyone is taking Christopher Nolan’s approach to sequels these days. One of the writers of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek 2 is Damon Lindelof (“Lost“), and he was recently juiced for info from the folks at EOnline about what we can expect from the new film. The response he gave was of epic, four star, critically acclaimed proportions…
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Friday, April 23, 2010 6:01PM - By Krystal Clark
Zoe Saldana will be hitting the big screen this weekend with the comic adaptation The Losers, after quietly appearing in last week’s Death at a Funeral. Over the past year she’s appeared in two major blockbusters Avatar and Star Trek and even though everyone loved the romance between Jake Sully and Neytiri we’re eager to find out if Uhura and Spock will eventually get it on. Saldana seems to think something might happen…
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Monday, April 5, 2010 1:02PM - By Krystal Clark
Avatar and Star Trek are two high profile films that debuted to plenty of fanfare in 2009. They made a boatload of money and now have highly anticipated sequels set for release in the near future. Besides commercial and critical success another thing both films share is actress Zoe Saldana. She played Lt. Uhura in Star Trek and Neyteri in Avatar, and when asked which sequel she thinks will come first she admitted that Star Trek’s in the lead.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010 6:40PM - By Anet Hovhanesian
The winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Make-Up goes to Star Trek. Was there any doubt that this film would win in this category? Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow accepted the award on behalf of the film and thanked director JJ Abrams for keeping them inspired and Paramount Pictures for supporting them every step of the way.
See who they beat out this year in the Best Make-Up category…
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