Director J.J. Abrams and writer/producer Damon Lindelof recently discussed the inevitable sequel to this year's mega-successful relaunch of the Star Trek franchise at the DVD/Blue-Ray premiere of their film at the Griffiths Observatory in Los Angeles and Sci-Fi Wire was on the scene to ask some of the questions that fans are dying to know the answers to.
As for when we'll see the next film, Lindelof said:
"I think that we would be hard pressed to get it on screens by 2011. If that’s the case, we’d better get to writing right now."
When asked if they had any story ideas in mind, Lindelof wouldn't specify how the characters would evolve or even at what period in time the film will take place in:
"One of the things we like to do as storytellers is drop you in the middle of something. And the question that you’re asking yourself is: Where am I in relation to the last time I left these guys? Could this be something that predated even, perhaps, some of the adventures that they had in the first movie? Does it happen five years later? Is it happening two seconds later? Who knows? So we’re not going to tell you."
As for the recent rumors about
Khan making a return in
Star Trek 2, Abrams said:
"We’re not even at that stage yet, but the fun of where we are on the sequel is we could use some of what was done before in a new way."
Of course, just to keep things cryptic, Abrams added:
"[This all depends on] if I, in fact, direct the Star Trek sequel. In theory, I would be available, and it would be fun to do. Since there's no script, it's hard to talk about directing a movie that the story doesn't even exist."