ALTHOUGH coming together largely behind the scenes - either it's being kept under wraps or there isn't anything nailed down just yet - a sequel to 2009's Star Trek is reportedly getting ready for lift-off.
The fansite TrekMovie has learned that filming on Star Trek 2 will start on January 15, 2012, with a release expected sometime in 2013.
The much-anticipated follow-up had originally been set to arrive in cinemas in June 2012, but it soon became clear it wouldn't be ready in time and so that slot was reallocated to G.I. Joe 2.
Screenwriters Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof are now collaborating on the third draft of the script to ensure it's within the budget set by Paramount. Work has started on constructing new sets and on creating outer-space special effects.
The site adds that director JJ Abrams and his team are scouting for locations and are considering a site in Hawaii to stand in as a "jungle planet." There have been no hints at the plot, leading to much speculation about Khan or Klingons being the key element of the story.
All the major cast members - Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin and Zoe Saldana - are expected to return. No new characters have yet been cast, although Benecio Del Toro was last month expected to be offered the part of an unspecified villain, a role so secret that even the actor didn't know who he would be playing.
In a far more advanced stage is the Guillermo del Toro-directed monster movie Pacific Rim. Filming started on November 14 for the production for Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures, which sees mankind creates pilot-operated giant robots to battle creatures emerging from a dimensional rift in the ocean.
Del Toro tells Wired: "We are working with actors that I absolutely adore. Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman. It's a very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters. Giant monsters versus giant robots. Twenty-five-storey-high rob...
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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]
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