{"id":9447,"date":"2010-06-14T12:35:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9447"},"modified":"2010-06-14T13:14:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T20:14:45","slug":"orci-on-dark-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/06\/orci-on-dark-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Orci On Dark Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>Star Trek XI <\/em>Co-writer <strong>Roberto Orci<\/strong>, some fans didn&#8217;t find <em>Star Trek XI <\/em>dark enough.<\/p>\n<p>Now that <em>Star Trek XI<\/em> and its necessary opening story has been completed, does <em>Star Trek XII<\/em> go where <em>Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan<\/em> went?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Orci061410.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9448\" title=\"Orci061410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Orci061410.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Often, a second movie in a series is darker than the opening movie, but <em>Star Trek XI<\/em> was pretty grim when it came to the Vulcan race as well as parental loss. &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s weird,&#8221; said Orci. We got kind of a mixed review in terms of the darkness or not of the first one. There was a genocide of an entire planet, Spock&#8217;s freaking mother died, Kirk&#8217;s dad died&#8230; but it&#8217;s like, &#8216;Well, it wasn&#8217;t very dark!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The writers will have to decide where <em>Star Trek XII <\/em>goes from there, and now that necessary business is out of the way, they&#8217;re free to explore different ideas. &#8220;So I think maybe thematically, because we don&#8217;t have the burden of an origin story, we can play a little bit more with the theme and it can be a little bit more complicated,&#8221; said Orci. &#8220;But I still think we like fun. <em>Star Trek <\/em>has always been funny. Even Wrath of Khan has got some great, great, great fun in it. I think it will be equally confusing for some, but I do think we get to jump right into it now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next <em>Star Trek<\/em> movie is due out in 2012, and Orci explained how the process of creating it would begin. &#8220;We&#8217;ll work backwards from 2012,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So you know, you can do the math. We&#8217;ve got to probably turn it in by Christmas and get a pretty good draft by then. And then kind of get it up and running.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Orci welcomes good suggestions from <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans. &#8220;Any cool suggestion I read from the fans I&#8217;ll bring up in our meetings. And I&#8217;ll say, &#8216;One of the fans suggested this.&#8217; So this has always been an experiment in fan consultation for us. They really are consultants on the movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Star Trek XI Co-writer Roberto Orci, some fans didn&#8217;t find Star Trek XI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[2466],"class_list":["post-9447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-orci"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9462,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions\/9462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}