In this article reports lots of new information revealed for the upcoming “Star Trek XI” directed by J.J. Abrams (pictured above).

The movie has been given a PG-13  rating (my guess for violence and brief profanity). The reason Star Trek XI has been pushed back in the summer of 2009 instead of Christmas this year is because Paramount really wants this to be a summer blockbuster. They really don’t want this movie to bomb.

The budget to this film is way below 200 million. (My guess is to keep it low budget as possible to get the classic feel of the original Star Trek TV series)

Originally Steven Spielberg read the script to “Star Trek XI” and he was the one who talked J.J. Abrams into making this movie for Paramount during their work on the “Transformers” set.

The whole point of starting over again in Star Trek was to “re-invent” the franchise. Leonard Nimoy says that “Star Trek XI” will be the biggest film ever and it will be worth waiting for. What’s even more interesting that Nimoy says that he didn’t like Captain Kirk’s death scene in “Star Trek: Generations”. Nimoy also agrees that it wouldn’t make sense to bring Captain Kirk back in “Star Trek XI” saying that it would put damage to the story.

In this article, it also explains that the USS Enterprise will be built in the film as you saw on the trailer. So we probably won’t see the completed Enterprise toward the end of the film.

More on it here:

http://screenrant.com/archives/hungry-for-more-star-trek-deta-1566.html

Interesting stuff. I just can’t wait to see this film. It’s going to be an amazing movie with a killer cast. This is gonna be the best Star Trek film ever made, mark my words!

Kev