Filming is set to get underway on the sequel to J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot in January 2012. While there’s plenty of expectation on the next installment, there’s also ongoing scrutiny as to who the villain will be, the film-making technology that will be employed and how the story will continue after the 2009 flick shifted away from story canon.
Production was originally set to commence mid 2011, but with Abrams busy making Super 8 and the writing team working on other projects – the release date was scrapped causing fans to get anxious. When it was recently announced that Abrams would indeed be helming the next installment and a new release date given, the news also stated that Abrams would be shooting the film in 3D, despite on previous occasions stating he’s not all that keen on the format. It turns out that the film will unfortunately be post converted.
Speaking with Trek Movie Abrams gave an update:
We’re shooting on film, 2-D, and then we’ll do a good high-end conversion like the ‘Harry Potter’ movie and all that. Luckily, with our release date now we have the months needed to do it right because if you rush it, it never looks good…We were talking about [shooting in IMAX] and I would love to do it. IMAX is my favorite format; I’m a huge fan.
Rumors continue to speculate who the bad guy will be this time round after Eric Bana‘s turn as the vengeful Nero skewed the ‘Star Trek’ mythos. For the last few weeks fans and trade papers have been suggesting that Trek favorite ‘Khan Noonien Singh’ would feature as the villain, however with Benicio del Toro dropping out and London-born actress Alice Eve being cast as a new character, no further announcements have been made.
As for the story, any Trek fan would know that the events of the last film effectively changed the lives of both Kirk and Spock, and in some ways altered the events featured in the original series. Though as Abrams explained in the latest podcast with nerdist, the director justified the shift in canon and how this will affect the story in the next film.
Here’s the thing… I think the key to that was, first of all, it was one of those things that not everyone even cares about or understands the timeline of it all. The notion that when this one character, Nero, arrives in his ship, that basically the timeline is altered at that moment, so everything forward is essentially an alternative timeline. That is not to say that everything that happened in The Original Series doesn’t exist. I think, as a fan of movies and shows, if someone told me the beloved thing for me was gone, I would be upset. But we didn’t do that. We’re not saying that what happened in that original series wasn’t good, true, valid, righteous and real. Let people embrace that. We’re not rejecting that. That, to me, would have been the big mistake. We’re simply saying that, “At this moment, the very first scene in the first movie, everything that people knew of Star Trek splits off into now another timeline.”
You can listen to the entire interview HERE.
Star Trek 2 opens May 17, 2013.
via: Star Trek.com
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