JBMoney
04-21-06, 04:38 PM
TG Daily (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/21/star_trek_xi_the_inevitable/) - Paramount Pictures made it official this morning: J. J. Abrams, the director of popular television series such as Lost and Alias, and most recently the director of Mission: Impossible III, has been signed on as the lead producer - probably the executive producer - of that last great certainty in the entertainment business, the next Star Trek feature film sequel. No, it's not dead, Jim; to borrow the timeless words of Michael Palin, it was "just resting."
...For over a year, fans have held onto a rumor propagated by the screenwriter for the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, Eric Jendresen, that he was signed on by Paramount to write and perhaps produce the next Trek film. That film would have centered around a new and not previously introduced set of characters, situated in a timeframe prior to that of the last (failed) Trek TV series, Enterprise.
Instead, the story line Paramount has accepted, according to the company itself, is amazingly the same one that has been submitted and resubmitted for the last quarter century, since back when Harve Bennett was producing The Search for Spock. It involves the adolescent James T. Kirk - the original Star Trek captain - during his Starfleet Academy days, and in his first meeting with a young, or at least younger, Spock (Vulcans age more slowly than humans). Curiously enough, this is exactly the story line which actor William Shatner, who immortalized the Kirk role, said in recent talk show appearances that he had been pitching to the studio. - Whole Story (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/21/star_trek_xi_the_inevitable/)
...For over a year, fans have held onto a rumor propagated by the screenwriter for the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, Eric Jendresen, that he was signed on by Paramount to write and perhaps produce the next Trek film. That film would have centered around a new and not previously introduced set of characters, situated in a timeframe prior to that of the last (failed) Trek TV series, Enterprise.
Instead, the story line Paramount has accepted, according to the company itself, is amazingly the same one that has been submitted and resubmitted for the last quarter century, since back when Harve Bennett was producing The Search for Spock. It involves the adolescent James T. Kirk - the original Star Trek captain - during his Starfleet Academy days, and in his first meeting with a young, or at least younger, Spock (Vulcans age more slowly than humans). Curiously enough, this is exactly the story line which actor William Shatner, who immortalized the Kirk role, said in recent talk show appearances that he had been pitching to the studio. - Whole Story (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/21/star_trek_xi_the_inevitable/)