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Our friends over at Collider.com have sent us some very exciting news about the Star Trek sequel which we are all excited to see after the first movie was such a success. The question now is, will Abrams be directing it or will someone else be handed the reigns? Collider.com were able to speak to writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (screen writers for Star Trek and the, as yet unfinished second script) today and get some information which might give us a clue to what the sequel may have instore.

The highlights were:

* They don’t know if J.J. is directing the sequel - he’s still undecided
* They want to finish the sequel script by Christmas
* Paramount wants to make the film as soon as possible
* They’ve been reading what the fans have been saying online

Read on... for more info and watch the video interview with Orci and Kurtzman

Steve (Collider.com) also asked Bob and Alex what kind of villain we’d get in the sequel and also if they’d set anything up in part two that might pay off a third film. They say they’re debating between “the exploration sci-fi plot where the unknown and nature itself is somehow an adversary or the villain model. That’s an active discussion we’re having right now. In terms of thinking about more than one movie, we want the movie to be self-contained in a way, but we’re discussing the idea of having a couple of threads where if the second movie works, you could pick up into a cohesive whole. No thread more exciting and shocking for me when in “Star Trek III” you realize that Spock grabbed Bones and downloaded his Katra into him. When I saw “Star Trek II” I was like, “What’s going on here?” and two years later, you’re watching it and you’re like “They’re geniuses! They’re geniuses!” So we’re trying to think is there a version of that but again, “Star Trek II” does not rely on that thread, even though it turns out to be a thread. So we’re thinking in those terms.”