After the almost complete Oscar snub, J.J. Abrams's "Star Trek" was a winner at the Empire Awards. According to wikipedia; since 1995, Empire, Britain's biggest selling film magazine, has organized the annual award show. Nominated for 3 awards total, Star Trek pulled ahead of the pack in the "best scifi / fantasy film" category.

"This is lovely and I'm happy to be apart of this story" said Simon Pegg during his acceptance speech for the win. He continues - "I said I wasn't going to cry.. but.. You canna defy the laws of physics"

Check out Simon Pegg's acceptance speech below.

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According to a report from Wonderwall.msn.com, The Shat and J.J. recently "did lunch" at Spago (we made that last part up) and talked about The Shat returning to Trekdom.  Hmmm, we love The Shat, but we're not sure who we feel about shoehorning him into Star Trek XII. 

What do you think?  Leave your comments below.

William Shatner is in talks to return to the world of Star Trek, despite attacking director J.J. Abrams for leaving him out of his 2009 blockbuster prequel.


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In a recent phone interivew with MTV Movie Blog, 'Star Trek' director J.J. Abrams talks about Star Trek XII needing to "evolve" and not become an "over the top, polemic, on-the-nose alegory".

Whew, we had to look a few of those up. Anyway, it's good to hear J.J. reassure us Trek fans that we're not in store for just any sequel.

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More Star Trek XII news hits the web as we get closer to the Star Trek XI Blu-ray / DVD release.  It makes since to publicize a future movie while it's predecessor gets ready to make a killing on home video.  The only problem we're seeing is; that there isn't much actual news being released.  We loved Star Trek XI and we are really looking forward to Star Trek XII but, all of the new "news" consists of of maybe(s), could-be(s), and we'll see(s). 

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In a recent interview with Time Magazine, William Shatner reveals that he actually turned down a private screening offer given by J.J. Abrams.  In the same interview we learn The Shat's feelings on conventions, working with Conan, and his work with the spoken word.

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Collider got an exclusive interview with J.J. Abrams on the red carpet of the Saturn Awards. Even though Star Trek XII is just in the pre-planning stages J.J. made it clear that he has no intention of walking away from Trek.

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In an exclusive interview with Post Magazine, 'Star Trek' director J.J. Abrams talks about the technical side of shooting 'Star Trek'.

Post: You shot this 35mm anamorphic when so many sci-fi films are now shot digitally.  Why?


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In a recent interview with MTV.com J.J. Abrams is open to many ideas for the sequel to 'Star Trek'.  Including William Shatner returning to the franchise or Khan appearing in the next film.

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