Star Trek sequel and Cowboys and Aliens - Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have the news

Orci and Kurtzman are the writers behind J J Abrams recent Star Trek film. Collider had this great interview them. They talk about sequels to the film and their work on Cowboys and Aliens.

We have had discussions about the debate of 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.

It's great to know that sequels are being worked on for Star Trek. It would be great if they could do a couple back to back to have things lead naturally into the third one. I can't wait to see more adventures from that crew. What do you want to see in the sequel? Khan? Discuss in the forum or leave a comment below.

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Conan to be directed by Marcus Nispel

Marcus Nispel is down to direct Conan the Robert E. Howard-created barbarian first immortalized onscreen by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1982 according to Variety.

Production on the remake is set to start late this year in Bulgaria and South Africa. Nu Image/Millennium is making the film in a co-production with Lionsgate.

The script is by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, whose credits include "Sahara" and "Cowboys and Aliens."

A number of directors have been approached over the past few years - Larry and Andy Wachowski and Robert Rodriguez but none worked out. Brett Ratner was the most recent director attached to the film, but luckily for us, he would not commit to it.

Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,Friday the 13th, Pathfinder) then stepped in.

Nispel has said he will blend his childhood imaginings of the character with the influence of the famous Conan illustrations by Frank Frazetta, and the influence of such viscerally violent period films as Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto."

I think Nispel is a better choice than Ratner and his approach sounds pretty cool, but I still don't know about this. His previous films haven't been that special. Pathfinder is probably closest to the Conan film in content and that was a bit of a disaster.

How do you feel about Nispel directing Conan? Who do you want to play the Barbarian?

Discuss in the forum or leave a comment below.

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Alien Western - James Marsters will hang 'em high!

I've always liked James Marsters as an actor. He was brilliant as Spike in Buffy. Now it looks as if he is trying to get over the Dragonball film and is starring in a Western with sci-fi trappings. Alien Western - That's a poor name to be honest but I do like the design of the alien and I'm a big fan of Westerns.

With this show and Cowboys & Aliens in development it looks as if the genre mash-up will be around for a while. Marsters stars as Sam Danville, a prisoner who's about to be executed, but his day of reckoning is interrupted by an alien attack.

James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, Torchwood) and Cindy Sampson (Supernatural) star in this action-packed World Premiere thriller from RHI Entertainment, a small town in the untamed West comes under attack by a full-scale alien invasion. No one invited them, but nothing can stop them!

Alien Western premieres on the Syfy Channel on June 1st and there are a few trailers and clips below.

Source: io9

Will you be watching this?

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Cowboys and Aliens - When will Robert Downey Jr have time to do it?

MTV News spoke with “Iron Man” writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, the duo charged with adapting “Cowboys and Aliens” for film to get an update on the project, the rising star of the project’s lead actor and what theater-goers can expect to see in the film.

“As far as we know, it’s all a go,” Ostby told MTV. “We’re just hoping it does because it felt like the right time for this kind of film and I just want to see how we’ll pull off all the cool stuff in it. It’s ridiculous. It’s one of those movies that every idea that you can come up with is actually something you can pull off these days. There’s no reason to edit yourself.”

But now that Downey Jr. is the star of a bona fide comics blockbuster with sequels on the way, have Iron Man’s repulsor rays pushed him out of “Cowboys and Aliens”?

“It’s not an official thing, but I think what they’re getting into now is a timetable for all these things,” said Fergus. “Probably in a little while we’ll know for sure what’s what.”

“We finished our draft and it all seems to be a go in terms of casting,” added Ostby. “I think Robert’s doing ‘Sherlock’ and ‘Iron Man 2′ next year, so that’s thankfully someone else’s problem to figure out how to make all that work, but the script is done…”

As far as the tone of the film, Fergus said it will follow in the “great Spielberg tradition of ‘Raiders [of the Lost Ark]‘ — with a great sense of humor, great sense of fun, and yet total adventure story.”

The “Cowboys and Aliens” comic can be read in its entirety online at webcomics host Drunk Duck.

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