Star Trek 2 and 3 Coming?
Tue, July 28, 2009 
"I don't wanna hear anything about Back to the Future 3. Just give me Goddamn Back to the Future 2!"
That's how Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale say Syd Sheinberg (then big-cheese at Universal) first reacted to the news that two Back to the Future sequels would be shot concurrently and released six months apart from one another. And that, my friends, is also my first reaction to the news that we might end up with two Star Trek sequels within the next three years.
This past weekend at the San Diego Comic-Con, io9 was able to talk to screenwriter and executive producer Roberto Orci for a brief second about how things were going with Star Trek 2:
"Nothing was decided [at the last meeting]. It was really about, hmmm. You know what, I'll give you a tidbit. [They said to us] 'We thought maybe you could do that as like 2 and 3.'"
Yes, I know I should be open-minded. But history has not been behind the "let's film two sequels back-to-back" logic. That is, ironically enough, with the exception of the Back to the Future sequels - at least, in my opinion. We don't need another Matrix Reloaded and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, folks.
Reader Comments (4)
I trust JJ to make it work.
I remember my first beer.
You make one good Star Trek movie and you just assume everything is going to go splendidly. Pull a page from Nolan's book and tell people to bugger off. You'll take each movie as it comes.
Every key player from the first film is set to return except for Abrams who will (at the very least) produce the sequel. First things first, they need to know where he stands on coming back.