Acording to Sci-Fi.com, JJ Abrams, creator of Lost and director of the upcoming Mission: Impossible III, has been signed by Paramout Pictures to resurrect Star Trek. I’m not sure how I feel about this. After all, Abrams is a highly talented producer, and is looking like the next big thing in Hollywood if M:I3 is the hit that we all expect it to be.
But what the Star Trek franchise needs, after being milked by Paramount for such a long time, is to be left alone for a few years, to give it a chance to freshen up. SciFi has moved on considerably since Jean Luc first sat in his Captain’s Chair, shows like Battlestar Galactica have made the formulaic Star Trek concept look very tired.
Still, if anyone can do it, JJ can, and with the Star Wars TV show appearing in a couple of years, perhaps the safest place for Trek is on the big screen…
