One or two new bits on Star Trek, including its evolving script, the time between this movie and the last, and what's happening with Uhura and Spock...
Over at the excellent TrekMovie, screenwriter Roberto Orci has updated the site with some new bits on the upcoming, JJ Abrams-directed Star Trek sequel.
He first addressed the fact that the script for the new film was only very recently completed, citing “strategic philosophical reasons” for this. He said that “we were not willing to turn anything in until we knew for sure that we had a start date, based on JJ’s availability. If we had written the script a year ago and it sat on the shelf, it would not have been current. Nothing messes up a script like it sitting on the shelf, because then everyone does get time to second guess and wonder, and then movies fall apart.”
Orci addressed the reaction to a recent comment from Zachary Quinto, who had said at the Producer’s Guild Awards that the script was evolving, “on a regular basis”. This had led some to conclude that there were screenplay problems of some sort.
“You should know the story hasn’t changed, the structure hasn’t changed”, assured Orci, “and the action sequences haven’t changed. Most changes are minor. The changes I suspect Quinto is referring to are the character interactions as we fine tune the level of their various friendships”.
Orci also added that “the time past in real life is different than the amount of time passed in the movie world”. While there’s a gap between the story of JJ Abrams’ two Star Trek films, then, it’s not going to be the four years that will separate their release date.
Cards are still being played close to the chest where the film is concerned, though. We know, from Zoe Saldana, that there are hints of Uhura and Spock coming closer together, given that she said that “if you put all the time and energy and wit into setting these two characters together in the first movie and didn’t follow through, it would be a shame.” But that’s pretty much all we’re getting for the time being.
And as the film is being mainly studio-shot, you’re not going to get vast swathes of passer-by taken footage, either.
Still, as we hear more on Star Trek, we’ll pass it your way…
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