Back in March, it was reported that the writers of Star Trek, Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci (Transformers 1 & 2, Fringe) as well as contributor Damon Lindelof (Lost) have all been signed to pen the sequel to J.J. Abrams’ successful sci-fi hit and that they were planning on a 2011 release. As soon as opening weekend came around, everyone was hearing the sequel talk and expecting the next film to debut in two years.
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In that interview where they discussed writing the sequel’s script, Lindelof explained that they’d be waiting to see the fan reaction to the first one so they’ll know how to better shape the next one. Since the first one was pretty amazing with only some weak plot points, I hope we get a perfected sequel with perhaps a little less lighting (Check out this hilarious video on Star Trek’s lens flares)
On the subject of the sequel, Bruce Greenwood spoke with TrekMovie.com and gave his thoughts on when we may see the next movie gear up production and what we may be able to expect in terms of the stories.
In an earlier interview, Greenwood stated that he expects to be in the sequel (so do we!) and in this interview, Trek Movie asked him if he had any info about the sequel. His reponse:
“They’re bouncing around story ideas right now. I think, from what I gather, the intention is start shooting next summer.”
Following that, they asked about him where he’d like to see the sequels boldly go:
“I think these guys are clever enough to do at least two more and have the final one do a really hard dovetail into the beginning of [the storylines] for the original ["Star Trek"] series. My expectations are very high for them. The only thing I’d like to see, from a personal standpoint, is the mentor relationship between Kirk and Pike to continue.”
It would be pretty cool to see these movies navigate their way into the beginnings of the original series canon although there would obviously be differences unless we see more time travel-related storylines or some alternate reality stuff which I don’t think we’ll be exploring more of any time soon. I also would like to think that there would be more than three movies if the sequels live up to and surpass this J.J. Abrams’ first Star Trek.
Onto the other topic of discussion, /Film picked up on some incredible concept art for Star Trek by artist James Clyne so we grabbed a few of the many images from his personal website for you to see. Click through the next pages to see the beautiful work…
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Maybe they could introduce Kahn to the series.
new series I mean.
I would like to see more of Nero.I think that he kinda got jobbed and even though he destroyed a planet,he didn’t seem to be scary enough to me.He had potential to be one of the biggest bad asses ever,but I think that they didn’t spend quite enough time tying to establish his character.
I really enjoyed the new “Star Trek” film (finally got to see it this week), but I hope they don’t try any more time travel stuff in the second film. That worked for the first one, and I think it allowed for a classy transition from the original version to the new one. They actually managed to do a reboot that doesn’t really negate any of the original Trek history. I rather liked that.
I think the logical place to go next would be a Klingon-related storyline. The Klingons played such a strong part in the original series as a recurring antagonist, so this just makes sense to me.
I hope we don’t see a Kahn or any of the characters from the Original series.
Let’s see if they can fly the ship without relying on the ideas that have already been done…
I’m betting they can’t…
I agree with Bill. We need a great story of Klingons as the enemy again.
Since its an alternate timeline where the characters still exist we might see characters from the original timeline, but they would be different. The writers I think already stated this. I too would like to see Kahn, but my vote is on Klingons.
I love the artwork!!! More please. VIC I need to see the various Enterprise concepts. This new Enterprise has been varified by the production team to be 735 meters long. The original was about 300 meters. I think you may need to run your galactica V Trek fight again. With the raging Queen Picard at the helm of course Galactica or a Star Destroyer would crush him/her. But give James T. Kirk the keys to a ship bigger and more powerful than the any of the ugly but powerful Next Gen era ships and we have a waaaaaaaay different contest my boy
The Doomsday Machine.
Great TOS episdoe, would work well with a GI remake. You could bring in other alien elements to the story.
There’s a great Peter David book called Vendetta that deals with a revamped Doomsday Machine that comes around in the TNG era.
@Fury2701, They have remastered the Original series with new CGI. Its been on dvd now for months…
Vendetta was a good story but it took place hundreds of years after Kirk.
If I want to see Kahn or the Doomsday Machine, I’ll watch my dvds. I can’t believe that some people want to rehash all the “old” stories and characters. No wonder Hollywood keeps reimaging old franchises…
“0 creativity.”
Mr. 790,
You’re missing a bit of the potential of a reboot. New stories and adventures are cool indeed but part of the excitment is to take something that was done with 1960’s era special effects and limited time and budget and give it the grand treatment. If you wanted the movie to be totally original and “creative” then it shoulnt have been called Star Trek. You could just make a more original film and called it Space Adventure movie.
Besides, arguably the best Star Trek movie is Wrath of Kahn – obviously a “rehash” of an “old story” from TOS.
a new form of the borg. it was cool but kind of cheesy.
@Fury2701,,,
Like I mentioned before you can see all the old Series re booted with new effects already…
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I don’t think I’m missing the point here, the real potential lies in Star Trek doing something new. (Sounds crazy huh?). Sure use familiar aliens, but I will not pay to see a remake of any of the other films…
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“Fury2701, you said”
(”If you wanted the movie to be totally original and “creative” then it should have been called Star Trek”)
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So your saying that we can’t expect to see the new Kirk and Spock seek out new life and boldly go someplace else…?
Its gotta be Kahn?
Wow, the concept art was really impressive. Thanks for showing these, Rob.
It doesn’t have to be Khan or The Doomsday Machine.
But I believe a combination of the old and the new would work best, that’s all.
And I meant to write that totally original and creative should not have been called Star Trek. Since it is a reboot there should be some sort of retread or rehash of existing material.
Fury2701, I don’t have much faith in Abrams producing something original anyway. I’m sure he’s going down that road no matter what I want…
I’m pretty much done with Star Trek professionally.
I don’t care anymore… Do whatever. ,,,
You sound so sad and defeated . . .
@790
My good sir, the whole point of this reboot was to bring new blood into a sadly dwindling fan base. I myself am from one of the last generations to actually enjoy the optimism and wanderlust that Star Trek embodies. That said, your argument that it needs to stand on its own merits is sound. But I would like put forth this argument: If this Star Trek can’t use any of the old ideas that made the original great, than how can you pique the curiosities of the new fans into seeing the original source material? Granted, for the next film and maybe the one after that it should be original. But at some point they NEED to bring in some of the original stories and show another way things could’ve been resolved. After all, with an alternate reality the rules change. In this new playground of imagination so much more can be seen and experienced.
Use old ideas to bring in the new fans ??? That’s the best we can do???
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@Happy Skeptic, I’m not a big fan of re-boots. The concept alone is a cinematic cop out. Re boots are fast becoming a new genre. Is this what we want???
What happened to coming up with something new??? Its almost a bad word in Hollywood these days.
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Anyone remember how cool it was when Star Trek gave us the Borg for the first time. It pumped NEW life into The Next Generation and actually brought in NEW FANS and high ratings,,, it was a totally new take on aliens.
Get some fresh ideas in the new Star Trek films and the NEW FANS won’t give a crap about Kahn, or Klingons. Only the old fans care about them,,,
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The overall problem that I have with Star Trek is that its a big rerun at this point. Were not going forward anymore… Re boots are not what we should be looking forward/backwards too,,,
(in my opinion)
@790 Im going to have to agree with you, if I wanted to see old stories I would wach the old show. I am new to star trek, and I have seen the new movie and many of the old shows, they are still very good and should be left alone.
It is kinda like waching the old batman series after waching the movies “including the older movies” I much rather wach somthing old that i have never seen rather than somthing old that i have seen -_-.
@Job sounds like Jobe 8), Just fyi the Remastered Star Trek Original Series on Dvd or Bluray is really amazing! It looks nothing like the 60’s Batman color filtration of the past. These effects are Next Gen quality…
My Point, if you want to see upgraded 2009 CGI Vfx.for the Star Trek Original Series its already here now…
Let’s move forward where no man has gone before,,, or women.
No reimaginings of previous original Trek episodes.
Something new and original, please!
@OldDarth, is very wise,,,
790 & OldDarth are right. Star trek needs to move a whole new territory (or quadrant) for the next (hopefully) several films.
However, if someone needs to see something familiar in the next films, may I suggest an expanded role for some of the TOS and animated series’ reoccurring alien races. Let us skip the ones that have had air time in the most recent TV series though.
My vote is for the Romulins to be the new antagonist for the Federation. I have always felt they never reached their full potential in TOS.
Thanks for the great art work, Rob. Love it and keep it coming, please.
WOW, that artwork is killer!
I’m with Bill…Klingons, (or ‘Cling-on’s’ depending on your situation) would be a great place to start.
Also, Fury2701’s idea of the Doomsday Machine is great too.
I loved that episode!
…with fewer lens flares natch..
And MORE artwork, Rob! Amazing!!
I think I may have a solution for all: Let’s say in the next movie, the Enterprise is dispatched to handle an incident involving Klingons (with smooth foreheads of course, because of Augments). On the way there, Kirk and crew come in contact with the Botany Bay. Young Spock remembers a conversation he had with Spock prime about a ship of very diabolical Augments. Spock prime suggested to young Spock that it would be only logical to destroy that ship because in his timeline, these Augments die trying to destroy the Enterprise. Young Spock informs Kirk and McCoy (with some banter between Spock and Bones), and they decide to destroy the ship. Afterwards, they continue on their way to their mission. Of course, we don’t get to see nor hear Kahn but I would be satisfied because of continuity.
I agree with others. The next one has GOTTA be Klingons! They’re the primary bad guys of orginal Trek!
And I for one, wouldn’t kind seeing one of the TOS baddies show up.
I would LOVE to see a movie where the main baddie is Kor (Errand of Mercy) or Kang (Day if the Dove) or even Koloth (Tribbles)!
Of the three, Kang would probably play the best on the big screen.
If not the main baddie, I’d like to see tham at least make and appearance.
Kahless, that would become kinda laughable if everytime they ran across an old enemy Spock signals to Kirk, “echmm don’t go there.”
I could maybe see them find the Botany Bay and instead of transporting over they encounter another alien race that intervenes in some way but even that’s kinda a cop out on doing something new…
There’s a ton of ideas that they could touch upon that are written in the novels. If they absolutely can’t pull anything together.
Someone mentioned earlier the concept of the mirror universe. Wouldn’t it be wild if this were a trilogy that eventually gets us back to the original timeline when it turns out that this event is what created the universe from Mirror Mirror. Without the logic of the Vulcans and with a paranoia developed from the Nero attacks Starfleet moves the Federation to the Empire. Movie two would end with the empire firmly established. Movie three has the mirror mirror events that get us back to the original timeline…somehow there is still a minor tweak tha allows some plot freedom the original timeline. I think it would be interesting to find out in the third movie that we’ve been pulling for the wrong guys all along. I know this is insane…but Lost is much stranger.
@JA
That sounds like a great idea to me !!!
Really cool!!!
If they did something like that I would be blown away…
Bring it on. I can’t wait.
Guys, I didn’t mind the “lens flares”, personally….
And I’d love to see the Mirror Universe! Goatee Spock FTW!
Maybe some tribbles too…
But I like the new continuity.
Just hoping they can get away from this tendency to try to lift elements from “Wrath of Kahn” … and that they redesign Engineering to something that looks 23rd Century.
I’ve always liked the Gorn and the Tholians as distinctive Star Trek aliens that did not get much play in follow-on episodes or even spin-offs. Now that we’ve got good enough SFX tech to represent these guys, I would love to see a fresh take on these classic encounters — they would get us back to the Enterprise’s exploration mission while keeping an interesting antagonist in place. Using these guys would also allow them to have both a recognizable element from the original continuity and a largely blank slate.
@SpaceCowboy1701
The Enterprise engineering section just sucked.
That was one of many things that I didn’t like about the new overall direction in Star Trek.
As long as the sequels are as good as this last one, I don’t care who they put it in it:
Star Trek 2 – The Wrath of SpongeBob!
@790
To me, the Engineering set (or lack thereof) is one of the things that really struck me as out of place in a movie where the production values were largely quite high, regardless of whether you’re evaluating the movie as part of existing Trek canon or strictly on its own merits as a reimagined show, where the whole look is consciously updated. If you compare it to the art above, it doesn’t really match stylistically or on a technological level. They tried, but I get the impression that they just budgeted a certain amount for new sets and were counting on that brewery to deliver. I wish they’d spent the money they used on the rediculous water tube sequence on something that looks like a 23rd century warp reactor, even if it’s not like the standard-setting core from the first Trek movie … after all, the TOS engine room was nothing like that, either.
I kind of wondered how much it bothered the general audience … I spent too many hours looking at Trek technical manuals to be objective …
Lol SpaceCowboy1701, I totally agree with your comment.
I knew it would look different but stupid and lame don’t even begin to cover how I felt when I saw the bowels of the Enterprise for the first time, and yes that scene with Scotty beaming into the tube was completely pointless and struck me a something a child would write in for giggles.
I also didn’t like that the E, was built on the ground and used as a recruiting office.
Typical with the writing style of Orci & Kurtzman. They always miss the mark in all the right places.
I’ve only seen Star Trek one time and its looking like that won’t change when the dvd comes out.
Entertaining yet lame all wrapped in one film.
Yeah, 790, I actually liked the overall idea of them “missing” with a transporter beam, but that whole sequence just felt over the top and gratuitous at that place in the script. Really, the later instance where Scotty thinks he’s beaming them into Engineering on the Narada and puts them somewhere else was funny without trying, and had the bonus of actually being integral to the plot. More integral humor in the next movie would be good.
The ground-based starship yard … beautiful visual that serves the story well, but that definitely goes against the grain after 30 years of spacedock construction scenes … and a nice new space station in this movie as well. I saw where they addressed that and essentially assumed that Starfleet’s technology would make it just as practical to build on the ground and boost into space. Still trying to decide if I can buy that or not.
You can tell I’ve got mixed feelings about this new movie franchise … I really wanted to like it, I enjoyed seeing “Kirk and Spock” back in action after all these years, but …
@SpaceCowboy1701,
Scotty never messed up transporter coordinates? What’s with making him the comic jester of the crew? (Oh yeah its Simon Pegg?)
If anything the Original Scotty was usually pretty uptight and took his job home with him.
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The ground based ship construction only acted as a plot device to get young Kirk in the same shot as the Enterprise,,,
The shot of him driving up on the motorcycle and looking up in awe of the big ship was a scene right out of Top Gun… (At least it struck me that way)
I’m not divided, I consider this version of Trek as a knock off. The first 25 minutes were great the rest was just a teenage fueled altered prequel that I just didn’t care about afterwards,,,
I know other people loved the film that’s cool.
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I have all of the Star Trek tv series and films on dvd, that’s what I will watch when need a Star Trek fix…
Yes, at least we have a few hundred hours of old programming to fall back on, even if the new movies go astray …
This Scotty is a younger version, so maybe he becomes the Scotty we all know and love from TOS in subsequent sequels.
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