Wednesday, November 4
When it comes to iconic villains in Star Trek movies, there's none more memorable than the late Ricardo Montalban's Khan. In a recent interview with MTV, Star Trek director J.J. Abrams didn't say for sure whether Khan would appear in Star Trek 2, but he also didn't rule out the possibility.
Dealing with Khan would certainly be a challenge, but we had an equal challenge in finding our crew of the Enterprise. While I don't want to approach the second film as a remake of episodes we've seen in the past, and, you know, I don't think any of the other writers and producers are interested in just rehashing, or throwing characters in for the sake of it, and Khan is certainly the most obvious one in the history of the series for me.... Nothing is off limits in terms of what we're discussing.
Star Trek screenwriter Roberto Orci has said that Khan's chances to appear in the sequel are about "50/50." Javier Bardem could be he front runner for the role should it be written into the sequel.
Posted 11/4/2009 by Ryan
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Wednesday, July 29
The screenwriters for Star Trek, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, are already working on a sequel and at the San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend, Orci was able to share that the sequel might be only the beginning of a two-movie storyline:
Nothing was decided [at the last meeting] ... [The studio said to us] "We thought maybe you could do that as like 2 and 3."
Two-part storylines are not unusual in the Star Trek universe, with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan wrapping up in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. While Orci doesn't give a lot of details away, clearly he and Kurtzman have something big in mind for the next Star Trek.
Posted 7/29/2009 by Ryan
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Wednesday, October 22
The war of words between Star Trek's William Shatner and George Takei is heating up according to the UK's Daily Mail.
After alluding to the Star Trek captain's legendary ego, Takei snubbed Shatner when he didn't send him an invite for his wedding to Brad Alman last month.
The snub lead the former Kirk to an amusing and seemingly less-than-provoked rant on his blog theshatnerproject.com in which he stated "it's so obvious that there is a psychosis there" and that there "must be something inside of George that is festering and makes him so unhappy that he takes it out on me, an ineffective total stranger."
Shatner ended by saying "I feel nothing but pity for him."
Posted 10/22/2008 by reelz
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