More Star Trek 2 Non-News? Jooooooooy!
Mon, August 10, 2009 
Karl Urban ponders his character motivation to saying "He's dead, Jim!"Back in the fall of 2005, we all payed attention to even the most non-of-news regarding Batman II (now The Dark Knight.) "What's that? Steve Carell is rumored to be the Joker? The Penguin might be in it too? And he could be played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman? Ohhhhhhh...*Nerdgasm!*"
So it's good to see how things change since then when non-news-items hit. This time coming in the form of Star Trek 2. The sequel is gearing up after the J.J. Abrams helmed reboot churned out close to $400 million worldwide and the general public is hungry for more exploits with Kirk, Spock, Bones & Co.
IGN Movies caught up with executive producers/writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (during the Television Critics Assosication panel for their also-successful television series Fringe) and the pair gave yet-another update on how things are going on the sequel.
Among the highlights include the confirmation that Karl Urban's McCoy will say "He's dead, Jim!" at least once, Abrams' acting alumni (and current Heroes cast-member) Greg Grunberg is "campaigning" for the role of Harry Mudd (I'll have to ask our sometime Movie Moan co-host Lou Sytsma who the Hell that is) and no mention of Khan whatsoever. Thank God.
As long as they continue making this assessable to the general public like the first film was, they should be alright. But the worst thing they can do at this point is bog the sequel down in useless bullshit for the sole purpose of pleasing the hard-core fans. And to that, I will make you good folks a promise. I will no longer waste my and more importantly your time on the Trek sequel until we hear legitimate news and/or rumors we haven't heard 20 times before.
Reader Comments (2)
WTF? Not reporting every what if and rumble of non-important Trek news? What kind website is this?
It's the best kind.