STAR TREK 2 Scipt Is Moving Forward. J.J. Abrams ‘Hopes’ To Return To Direct

Back in November, Star Trek screenwriters, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman told LA TIMES that they’ve broken the story for the sequel. To to this day, he script is still not done yet, which gave rise to a bunch of rumors as to why that may be, Orci however took the time, via trekmovie.com, to deny all those rumors and emphasize the fact that they’re still working on it, and although director J.J. Abrams is still busy with SUPER 8, he has been helping them out as well with the script..

Orci: [to Capt. Crash] None of the above. Just been waiting for JJ to be free to really decide if he likes the story and hear his suggestions before we finish the script. Once he says go, we’ll have it in no time. Meanwhile, our outline is detailed enough (70+ pages!) to do some prep

Orci: In the meetings we’ve had with JJ, he’s already given us amazing input and ideas, and that’s been while he’s been up to his eyeballs in Super 8.

Abrams hasn’t officially signed on to return to direct STAR TREK 2 but he told HitFix’s Gregory Elwood, in an interview that hasn’t been posted online yet but it was tweeted that he “hopes” to direct the sequel
And I hope that’s the case because he’s a fantastic director and I really enjoyed his 2009′s alternate reality/parallel universe prequel take on the young enterprise crew.

STAR TREK 2 which is set to open on June 29th, 2012