J.J. Abrams Keeps on Trekkin’

I was a little surprised to learn that Paramount was undertaking another Star Trek movie so soon after the failures of both the movie Star Trek: Nemesis, and the UPN venture Star Trek: Enterprise. Another surprise was seeing that J.J. Abrams was helming the next movie (I’m all for this, as long as it’s up to Lost quality or that of the first couple of seasons of Alias). And the third surprise came as I read that it would not be a Next Generation movie, but would go back to the early days of Kirk and Spock. I’m all for this move, too, as long as they don’t make it stupid. I think ditching all of the recent incarnations of Trek, and doing something completely new, would be best. Star Trek needs to do something bold and different from anything we’ve seen in Star Trek so far.

Via Sci Fi Wire

Paramount has hired Mission: Impossible III director J.J. Abrams to write, direct and produce the 11th Star Trek feature film, aiming for a 2008 release, Variety reported. Damon Lindelof, who co-created Lost with Abrams, and Bryan Burk, who produces Lost, have also been tapped to produce the yet-to-be-titled feature.

The project will be co-written by Mission: Impossible III scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. It will center on the early days of original Trek characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first space mission, the trade paper reported.

Now, who should play Kirk and Spock?