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"Star Trek 3" To Be Helmed By "Fast & Furious" Franchise Director Justin Lin

Posted by timothy on from the just-this-guy-you-know dept.

Dave Knott writes Although J.J. Abrams directed the first two films in the popular revamped Star Trek series, his new job masterminding the Star Wars sequels had left Star Trek 3 as one of the most prestigious unfilled directing assignments in Hollywood. No longer. It is now known that Justin Lin will direct the third Star Trek film. Lin is best known for revitalizing the long-running Fast & Furious series, helming the third through sixth films in that franchise. Several top-flight directors were under consideration for Star Trek 3, but Lin was the only one actually offered the job, following the postponement of the Bourne Legacy sequel that he had previously been set to direct.

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  1. Shift! by meta-monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, what you're saying is there's going to be lots of close-up cuts of Sulu stomping on the Enterprise's clutch and forcefully downshifting.

    But hey, less lens flare amiright?

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    1. Re:Shift! by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

      Star Trek 3: Romulan Drift

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  2. sounds like relevent expertise by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Funny

    His skills in filming exciting race scenes will allow this incarnation of Star Trek to really do justice to the pod-racing scenes.

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  3. Artistic license by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like what J.J Abrams and Zack Snyder (who directed "Man of Steel") have done to the franchises. They start with the established plotlines and take the stories in new directions. It's an artistic license that gives us fresh, new interpretations of the characters such as superman killing someone (General Zod) or Spock having an emotional outburst (over Kirk's death).

    I anxiously await the Michael Bay version of "Hamlet" or the Justin Lin version of "Macbeth". This site has a good overview of directors taking artistic license, including an unannounced (but upcoming) superman movie.

    For reference, here's Kevin Smith talking about how movies get made.

  4. Re:more NOS and less lense flare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This one is going to be 100mph, non-stop B A D A S S !!!

    Wow! 100mph!! They'll get to Alpha Centauri in.... just under 30 million years! ...woohoo!!!

  5. Re:more NOS and less lense flare by the_skywise · · Score: 5, Funny

    Laddie, don't you think you should rephrase that?

  6. Re:more NOS and less lense flare by OolimPhon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even more blessed is the mind who can spell correctly.