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By GustavoLeao / 11:17, 16 May 2008 / Feature Films
IGN posted a new interview with Star Trek movie co-writer Roberto Orci. Here are excerpts of the article.
Q: Transformers is beloved by a lot of people, but it's kind of a kitschy property in the minds of some people. Star Trek is the holy grail. How big a responsibility was it taking that on?
ORCI: If we fail, I have family members who will disown us. It's a big responsibility. We thought of Transformers as a warm up - as training for what Trek's gonna be. The difference is that Transformers started as a toy. I personally felt that we had a little more freedom to make sure that what we did for live-action was not going to be a slave to whatever happened [in previous incarnations]. Star Trek has 40 years of established history. It's been live-action, so it's not like no one's ever done a live-action Star Trek. It's been done! So the responsibility is gigantic. We were aware of it from the very beginning. It's kept us up at night. It's why we're so happy to be part of a such a great team with J.J., with Damon Lindelof, with Bryan Burk. And so we felt, if we can get a story by everybody, that all five us like, then we'll probably be in okay hands.
Q: How tricky is it to come up with a story that will appeal to the old fans, and yet do the business of bringing in the new fans that it has to?
ORCI: It's tricky, but we thought that it was an amazing opportunity, which is there'd never been an origin story of how this original crew of Kirk and Spock and Bones and everybody, how they met. So when we went back and started thinking about it, we realized goodness, that's never been covered! That's not even a remake. There simply has not been a story that told how they got together. So when we realized that, we thought well, that solves the introduction problem, because this will literally be an introduction to these characters that everyone knows, but not everyone knows how they met. So we knew that we could tell a story that was still viable for Star Trek fans, because it's not a retelling. It's a new story. And we knew that for those who don't know Star Trek, it's going to be an introduction to the world. So we kind of leapt at it, in that it hadn't been done before.
More from Orci on Star Trek can be found here.
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