E-Online spoke to
Star Trek producer and
Star Trek sequel producer/co-writer Damon Lindelof at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards this weekend. Lindelof said that they were looking at a movie like
The Dark Knight which went one step beyond
Batman Begins.
Lindelof states:
"The bar is very very high for the sequel. We are looking at a movie like 'The Dark Knight' which actually went one step beyond 'Batman Begins.' It was really about something and at the same time was a superhero movie. We don’t want to abandon all the things that made the first movie work — have it be fun and emotional, but we also want the movie to thematically resonate, so we are putting on our highfalutin hats."
According to TrekMovie.com, this may mean that the sequel will be deeper and not darker. During the run up to
Star Trek, the film makers would often cite Christopher Nolan's 2005
Batman Begins as a benchmark. The Star Trek movie was clearly a very different kind of origin story than "Batman Begins" in terms of tone and style.
When
Star Trek producer Bryan Burk talked to TrekMovie about the Trek/Batman comparison he had this to say:
"…our aspirations are for the [Star Trek sequel] to be even bigger and better than the first one. I don’t mean that just in scope, I mean content and characters and emotionally. We had a lot of conversations about 'Batman Begins' and how that movie kind of re-invented that franchise, and we looked at what 'The Dark Knight' did and how that really ramped it up and they went to a different place with that film, and how those two films keep re-inventing themselves and are not the same thing every time."
The sequel to JJ Abram's
Star Trek is set to beam into theaters on June 29th, 2012. Christopher Nolan's next Batman film will hit theatres three weeks later.