Monday, April 04, 2011

Nitpickers Guide To Trek 2

Writer Roberto Orci was at WonderCon over the weekend to stump for this Summer's "Cowboys & Aliens"--And as you might imagine the subject of the as yet Untitled Star Trek Sequel came up.

He and writing pal Alex Kurtzman are back at it.



The duo  have been reading a lot of the online feedback to the first film and plan to acknowledge the nitpicks folks had in the sequel.

An example The ease with which Kirk became Captain - "Everyone said [Kirk] is too young to become Captain. So maybe in the next movie, somebody goes, 'Man, you sure became Captain young and fast.' You start to incorporate people's opinions... If it's organic to the story and you find someone who doesn't think too highly of Kirk because he maybe skipped a few steps, that's maybe a fun thing to consider. That comes from a fan reaction and maybe gives you a story point" Orci tells Coming Soon.

He adds "[Fans] wanted more character time with everybody, and because that was an origin story for 'Star Trek,' everyone had to come in at a certain point. Now everyone is going to be there from the beginning, so they're going to get that. Everyone sure hated engineering. They thought it looked like a brewery, which it was. I'll pass that on to J.J.. [Abrams] and see what he says."

Orci expects he'll be working on the film right through production - "We'll be working and tweaking that story through shooting. This time we don't have a [writer's] strike, so we'll actually be able to change things on the set. On the last movie, we handed in the script and that was it. You couldn't change a word. This one feels like we've got all the time in the world."

I was never really bothered by the quick Captain thing--it's film not the TV Series events will be compressed due to format; Or the Engineering as a brewery stuff...

The sequel hits theaters on June 29th 2012

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