Star Trek sequel’s story is broken… in a good way

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Sometimes it’s hard to understand these Hollywood types and their l33t speak. Star Trek screenplay writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are hard at work on a sequel to the smash hit/totally awesome movie and in a recent interview they claim to have broken the story. Sounds bad, I know, but I believe their meaning here is that they’ve broken into the story and know where they’re going with it instead of that they’ve shattered it like Humpty Dumpty a few seconds into sitting on a wall.

The full interview gets into their thinking on coming up with new adventures for a cast of characters that have already been on almost every adventure there is, but more interestingly discusses how they don’t think of their upcoming Trek films as a series or a trilogy per se.

I was right along with them until the end of the interview when the decided to joke about making a Star Wars/Star Trekcrossover movie. At that point the nerd inside of me got simultaneously really angry because of how stupid it is to put those two universes together and really angrier because I knew it would never happen no matter how…

Sometimes it's hard to understand these Hollywood types and their l33t speak. Star Trek screenplay writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are hard at work on a sequel to the smash hit/totally awesome movie and in a recent interview they claim to have broken the story. Sounds bad, I know, but I believe their meaning here is that they've broken into the story and know where they're going with it instead of that they've shattered it like Humpty Dumpty a few seconds into sitting on a wall.

The full interview gets into their thinking on coming up with new adventures for a cast of characters that have already been on almost every adventure there is, but more interestingly discusses how they don't think of their upcoming Trek films as a series or a trilogy per se.

I was right along with them until the end of the interview when the decided to joke about making a Star Wars/Star Trek crossover movie. At that point the nerd inside of me got simultaneously really angry because of how stupid it is to put those two universes together and really angrier because I knew it would never happen no matter how much I wanted it to.

LA Times

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