Roberto Orci No Longer Helming STAR TREK 3; Edgar Wright Beaming Up As Director?

YAY!

Okay, mate. Clearly beat you to the punch, but that's all good.

Glad Orci's out. Not glad Wright is in. Eh, oh well, Trek blows anyway. Star Wars is the shit, Trek just is shit.

I really, really hope this is true!

Good, Trek 3 was some kinda warped ego trip for Orci. Wright is much more fitting, but a small part of me would hate for him to take this.

Hehe "small part of me". I'm here all week folks.

What a roller coaster of emotions from one little paragraph. Way to go, Wilding =P

Yes get rid of that hack and bring in some one good

Intresting choice,should be good.

According to Devin Faraci, this is what the plot was going to be under Orci:

"...my sources tell me that the script Orci was working on saw the Enterprise, the Vulcans and a new alien race competing to get a time travel device. The Vulcans want to go back and stop the destruction of their planet, and the time travel schtick is what would allow Chris Pine and William Shatner to share the screen. Is that still going to be the plot of the movie - a MacGuffin that could wipe out the previous two films?"

That sounds awful, but who knows if some of it will stay in place when the new director takes the reins.

"they teamed up to butcher a number of franchises, including The Amazing Spider-Man 2)," Theres the josh we know and "love"

Edgar please!!!! Orci shouldn't have been given such a huge film as his rookie debut. Maybe te studio realized this. And his writing is suspect at times

Pretty good choice. The World's End was great (yes am of the minority opinion that it was the best of the Cornetto trilogy). Hopefully we can get a moral message back in Trek while we're at it. Still, I won't get my hopes too high as long as this movie occurs in the Abramsverse.

@SauronsBANE- So a reboot of reboot?

Kurtzman & Orci should be tried for Crimes Against Humanity.

Edgar Wright knows better than wade into that quagmire. But maybe Simon can talk him into it...

Edgar Wright?

Cool

No! Not Edgar Wright! I don't want to wait a decade for him to tinker with his vision only to get annoyed the studio was getting tired of waiting and then quit.

Very mixed bag as a writer (alongside Kurtzman), their work usually falls under either the "pretty good with quite a lot of stupid stuff" or "rubbish but with a few cool moments". I think they've done a pretty good job on Star Trek so far, but I'm glad Orci isn't directing this anymore, it's just too big a film for anyone's directorial debut - I mean, it'd be difficult enough just directing a Star Trek movie as a newbie, but directing the third installment in a pretty well received reboot of the series would make it nearly impossible to get right.

As for Edgar Wright... It could be great to see him get this gig, but I wonder how he'd manage to adhere to the tone established by Abrams when he's known for his own very distinctive style; the same style that apparently caused him to quit the Ant-Man project he'd dedicated like 10 years to, when told he'd have to alter it to fit into a previously established universe. I know he directed a very small segment in Star Trek Into Darkness, which might indicate an ability to mesh with this version of Star Trek, but I'm still not entirely convinced it'll work out.