TrekMovie.com posted a new interview with Star Trek Countdown writers Tim Jones and Mike Johnson and here are few excerpts.
TrekMovie: Moving on to the Star Trek movie adaptation, it was announced to be six issues instead of the usual four for adaptations at IDW. Is that because of the film or to fill in extra material?
Mike Johnson: It is really both. The movie is so big in terms of scope and what goes on. But we also want to put more deleted stuff in there. Four is too short, and eight issues gets you to the point where fans are not going to want to go for 3/4 of a year. So with it coming in January, we wanted something to come in this period between the two movies and give fans something to enjoy.
Tim Jones: It is not going to be an exact duplication of the movie. We will be able to hear some inner dialog from our characters, which you don't get on screen.
TrekMovie: You mentioned the next movie, if that movie comes out in 2010 this adaptation will come out in the year in-between. You guys are writing the adaptation of the first movie while Bob, Alex and Damon are writing the sequel. So, could there maybe be some foreshadowing or hints of the next movie in the adaptation?
Tim Jones: There has been no discussion about foreshadowing the next movie.
Mike Johnson: But there has been discussion about doing a Countdown-ish project before the second movie.
TrekMovie: Speaking of future comics, have you talked about doing a sequel to Countdown that would carry on the Next Gen story after Spock and Nero leave? Essentially carrying on after those last two pages with Data and Picard and the TNG gang?
Mike Johnson: We have had conversations with IDW, but to jump back and tell a story between Nemesis and Countdown, to show how Data came back and became captain of the Enterprise, and what happened to Picard and their relationship and other members of the crew. We are hugeNext Gen fans, so yeah there is another story to be told where Countdown left off, but more on the front burner is the prequel to the prequel, Countdown. The plan for the comics is to keep the fires burning as we wait for the build-up to the next movie.
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