According to ComingSoon, Paramount Pictures have set a tentative release date of June 29th, 2012 for the next installment of J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” franchise.
Quickly greenlit even before the release of the first film, the sequel was originally targeted for a summer 2011 release but now has jumped a full year, confirming Abrams’ comments on the move earlier this week. Could this have anything to do with Abrams collaborator Damon Lindelof working on the last season of their hit T.V. show, “Lost” this year? Lindelof will be joining Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci in writing the new script.
Constant rumors of a return by cult villain Khan, from “Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan,” have been lighting up the Internet since the announcement of the sequel with Abrams stable actor Nestor Carbonell even earmarked as a potential Khan. It’s probably waaay too early to even speculate, though Lindelof did tease about the prospects of the sequel late last year.
“One of the things we like to do as storytellers is drop you in the middle of something,” the writer told SciFiWire. “And the question that you’re asking yourself is: Where am I in relation to the last time I left these guys? Could this be something that predated even, perhaps, some of the adventures that they had in the first movie? Does it happen five years later? Is it happening two seconds later? Who knows? So we’re not going to tell you.”
“Is there something else that we can do that’s a little bit off the beaten path? When you buy your ticket and your popcorn and you go and sit and watch the second movie that we’re all working on together, we want to give the audience an experience that feels like it’s not a sequel in all the best ways.”
“Star Trek” to become the new “Lost”?