Who knows what comes of this, our hopes have been dashed a few too many times in recent years. But AICN is linking to a Daily Variety story that reports that JJ Abrams (you’ve heard of Lost, right?) will produce and direct a new Trek film that “will center on the early days of seminal “Trek” characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer space mission.” Here’s the Daily Variety link.
Considering how many times the Superman reboot stopped and started and got tossed around from one bad idea to the other, we have to hope this is a legit story and that they aren’t toying with us. Because there are plenty of really great potential stories to tell about Kirk’s early days that would be great on the IMAX screen.
I dunno
I just can’t imagine Kirk played by anyone but Shatner.
— Ben
Good news..
Abhrams does “Young” action heroes well. he does action well. I hope its old school swashbuckling Trek with a mix of the Politico (See Star trek 6, my fave) – that doesn’t take itself too seriously until the end, where the stakes are high, and then big fat action scene.
If we get the right mix of Old school sensibility with new production techniques.. yeah, it could work And for me, any new trek is better than no trek at all.
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