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'Star Trek 2' will be 'deep' like 'The Dark Knight'
Damon Lindelof, co-creator of "Lost" and co-writer of the sequel to the 2009 reboot of "Star Trek" surprised fans by likening the direction of the story to "The Dark Knight," Christopher Nolan's own sequel-to-a-reboot of "Batman Begins."
Lindelof told E! "We're looking at a movie like The Dark Knight, which went one step beyond Batman Begins, It was really about something, and at the same time it was a superhero movie. We don't want to abandon all the things that made the first movie work...but we also really want the movie to thematically resonate."
Does "thematically resonate" mean "dark"? Will audiences support an even "darker" version of the traditionally family friendly space franchise? We have to remember that, in Hollywood, "The Dark Knight" is also a blanket term for "extremely successful." Filmmakers always want to associate their projects with that kind of success, so it may not be meant to be taken literally.
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August 28, 2010 at 2:20AM EST Reply to CommentOh, wow. Hmmm.
Destroying the Vulcan race, a hell of a lot of Starfleet and any narrative flow that anyone mentally older than 14 could appreciate isn't dark enough for them?
Oh -- they must mean they're getting rid on the lens flares. Good on them.
studiospeak
August 28, 2010 at 5:01AM EST Reply to CommentI am pretty sure the next Star Trek will be (insert "good" adjective) like (insert successful movie), but it will also be (insert "good" adjective) like (insert successful movie). Continuity, "the fans", story, effects, other buzzwords geeks will like. Wrath of Khan.
sean
August 29, 2010 at 3:59PM EST Reply to CommentI saw the movie with a 12-year-old, 32-year-old and 65-year-old, none of which had any issues with the narrative flow. But hey, to each their own.
He clarified this beyond the blurb here, and made it clear he didn't mean 'dark', only that TDK stepped up the storyline several notches over BB, and that they wanted that for Trek 2. Keep in mind, Lindelof had next-to-nothing to do with ST09, so he's bound to have a different viewpoint from the original writers.