Wednesday 4 August 2010

STAR TREK GOES WEST

Gene Rodenberry called Star Trek, Wagon Train to the Stars and the classic TV series as well as its spin offs have done western related stories but now things are going a step further with the new Trek movie, Star Trek II - taking its cue from the forthcoming genre mesh-up Cowboys and Aliens, the new movie is rumoured to place Kirk and co in the Old West.

Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman insist the follow-up will remain immensely loyal to the original canon and bring the series back to the very origins of the franchise.


"['Cowboys and Aliens'] inspires it a little bit," Orci said. "'Star Trek' was 'Wagon Train [to] the Stars.' Isn’t that how Gene Roddenberry pitched it? So right now we’re just doing 'Stars Come to the Wagon Train' and now we start turning. Once we start relaxing about what we’re doing here, I’m hoping that being out in the woods a little bit will kind of inspire the right decisions hopefully."


The writer told Hollywood Online that they are halfway through the story.

"I’d say we’re halfway through the story," Orci said. "Halfway through all of us going back over what we’ve talked about and seeing if it really sticks. We’ve built a little Jenga castle storywise, and now we’re going to go pick at it and pull at it and if it stays standing. We know what we have."

1 comment:

I.J. Parnham said...

I read the same articles and I'm sure they weren't meant to be taken literally that the next Trek movie will be a western, just that they are using some of thought processes from this current sf / western movie in the development of the next story.

Previously they've also stated, quite correctly, that that's it with time travel for a long, long time!

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