STAR TREK reboot crew already talking sequels

While admitting that it was "insanely presumptuous" to start talking about Star Trek sequels before the film has even opened in the USA, J.J. Abrams told Coming Soon that the Star Trek creative crew is already considering a possible sequel.

"The good news is that there's a deal for the writers and a deal for the actors," Abrams said. "It's in place. We have not had one meeting. We have not had one discussion. There's no outline. There's no script. There's nothing. We're fishing for ideas."

Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and producer Damon Lindelof are already signed to write the possible sequel, and Lindelof says that the plan would be to take stories from the original series and tell them with new twists.

"I think that everybody is expecting us to do 'Okay, now it's the continuing adventures of the Starship Enterprise, so they can start doing the stories'… Our approach to those stories will be from an entirely different angle. Hopefully the old fans will go 'Oh, wow. That looks familiar to me.' But then suddenly we zig instead of zagging. Or we warp instead of going impulse power. That's what is exciting about doing this."

Interestingly, when the Coming Soon interviewer suggested No Country For Old Men star Javier Bardem as Khan, Orci said they'd already discussed it.

"Did you know we've actually mentioned that out loud as a possibility? What a great idea."

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