While the incredible teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams Star Wars: The Force Awakens has fans of the series forgetting all about the prequels, the other outer space film franchise that Abrams departedto take over Episode VII was hit with a major blow: Deadline reportsthat Roberto Orci is beaming off the third film in the rebooted Star Trekseries, leaving the film without a director.
Orci will remain onboard as producer while the follow-up to Star Trek Into Darknessquickly seeks out a new director in order to reach its scheduled2016 release date. Badass Journal writesthat a disagreement over the third installments script triggered the fallout.According to Deadline, among those on the shortlist to helm the movie is Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright, who in Maystepped away from MarvelsAnt-Man film, citing creative differences with the comic companys overall vision.
Wright is a longtime admirer of the sci-fi series, and his good friend and frequent collaborator Simon Pegg currently starsin the Star Trek reboot as the engineer Scotty. As Variety points out, Wright also guest-directed one of the 2120 shotsin Star Trek Into Darkness during a visit to the films set. However, given Wrights Marvel troubles, its unclear whether the director would want to be restrained by the rules mapped out by a preexisting franchise.
Star Trek 3 would have been the directorial debut for Orci, who along with his former co-writer Alex Kurtzman formed one of Hollywoods most successful screenwriting teams thanks to Mission: Impossible III and both the Star Trek and Transformers series. It was announced in April 2014 that Orci and Kurtzman had ended their film partnership, with Orci taking the reins of the Star Trek franchise from Abrams, who moved on to continuing the Star Wars saga.
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