By GustavoLeao / 13:07, 19 November 2009 / Star Trek: Nemesis

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Newsarama posted a new interview with Star Trek writer/producer Damon Lindelof and here are excerpts.

Nrama:  You're looking at a 2012 release now, right?

Lindelof:  Is that what everyone who came before me said?  Yeah, I think that we would be hard pressed to get it on screens by 2011.  But if that's the case, we'd better get to writing right now.

Nrama: Any thoughts in how you're going to approach it?

Lindelof: I think we've had a lot of thought.  And I think we've reached consensus on the answer to that question and we're certainly not going to share it with you.  [laughs]  I mean, sometimes it works great.  I remember for me, how exciting it was to see the first Bourne movie and go, oh my god, like the first half of this movie actually took place between a few of the scenes in the last movie, and now the entire context of him being across the street from Joan Allen take on...but if they had told me that before I went and saw the movie, oh this actually takes place between the cracks of the last movie, it would have made that discovery less organic.  So I think what we like to do as storytellers is drop you in the middle of something and the question you ask yourself is, 'Where am I in relation to the last time I left these guys?  Could this be something, perhaps, something that pre-dated the adventures that they had in the last movie?  Does it happen five years later?  Is it happening two seconds later?'  Who knows?  We're not going to tell you.

Nrama: Now Bob (Orci) and Alex (Kurtzman) said that they were doing some research for the Star Trek sequel and they were going back and reading some non-Trek sci-fi, etc.  Have you been doing any research like that?

Lindelof: Um, I think that I don't call it research, but I expose myself to movies that are not particularly in the Trek-verse...one of the things I'm really doing is watching a lot of sequels that I happen to hold in high esteem.

Nrama:  Can you name some?

Lindelof: Sequels that I love?  I think Aliens is one of the greatest sequels ever.  And Mighty Joe Young, the original, is a cool sequel, because it's actually not a sequel of Kong.  But I think the idea of saying that people come to expect something from a sequel to a movie like this, which is, it's going to be bigger, badder, louder, more bad guys...and I think the idea of saying, 'Do we have to do that?  Is there something else that we can do that's a little bit off the beaten path?'  I don't even know if this thing is going to be called Star Trek 2 or whether it's going to be Star Trek: something or whatever, but the idea of saying, when you buy your ticket and your popcorn and sit and watch the second movie that we're all working on together, we want to give the audience an experience that feels like it's not a sequel.  In all the best ways.

The full interview is here.