Star Trek and Star Wars news… is Simon Kinberg the new J.J. Abraham?

Star Wars and Star Trek put their hopes in J.J. Abraham and it failed, harming the franchise some say, harming his career for certain. But someone else is stepping up to take on the two giants of sci-fi… who is Simon Kinberg though? How much influence will he really have and can he be trusted with these two beloved franchises?

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[christiangomez]

To be fair, for all we know, Simon Kinberg may have actually improved those scripts from having been in worse conditions. I am concerned too, not sure if he is ready for these projects yet. I hope he proves us wrong with delightfully awesome Star Trek and Star Wars movies. I would have preferred if the Star Trek Origin film would have been made by Erik Jendresen, of Band of Brothers, who pitched his origin Star Trek: The Beginning trilogy that sadly never got made.

[jcpebpy]

Why is the same man doing both franchises is the real question

[trekgate]

The Trek Wars continue to save our once beloved franchises.

[patrick_j_lee]

Not good. Kinberg has a very hit and miss career. Seems like when he's directing/producing he's better than when he's writing.

EDIT: I'm also concerned that one person is doing both of these franchises. They are very different from each other and I don't know if Kinberg has the skill to write them both - basically I'm worried that the spirits of the two franchises will get watered down and mixed together, making them more similar to each other.

[BillMooney-rc]

I feel you. I have been a huge fan of Chris Chibnall, until he did Doctor Who. I guess a great writer/producer can lose their way. Will Kinberg be the same???? I also loved a lot of what JJ did, in the past, and then he destroyed Trek.

[richardajoy]

I am somewhat worried about a Producer who has several big misses, but if the majority of the misses are sci-fi projects then F me... we're screwed. If the trilogy is to work, perhaps bring back Jolene Blalock and a radically aged Scott Bakula, perhaps even some of the other Enterprise cast.

[Khyranleander]

Jumper WAS decent... but failed because it was completely different from books supposedly based on & fans panned it. (Tho author claimed he liked the film's take in the commentary). Did spawn a series, "Impulse" which ran for 3(?) seasons. Haven't watched yet, so who knows.

[vanillagorilla]

Just remaster DS9 and Voyager already.

[TheJediDonkey]

The first two thirds of this video is a review of information found on IMDB.

[iainmcevoy]

Maybe Paramount are taking cost cutting way far....

[Dantes]

He would have to try really, really hard to make something worse then what Abrams and Kurtzman have done.

[bartlester]

As far as Star Wars is concerned I think that anything that comes out of Lucas film or Kathleen Kennedys mouth is a pack of lies. I don’t think there’s anything new being done right now except the Mandalorian and Grogu movie and I know who’s directing that one and writing the script as far as. Star Trek is concerned I don’t trust anybody that hasn’t written for Star Trek in the past

[bozimmerman]

Star Wars is not Sci-Fi. George Lucas, who grew up on Sci-Fi, has repeatedly denied that SW is part of that genre. I am not enthused that they are put under the same guy, as if they are the same thing, to be made the same way (like JJ did).

[gyorgyor]

Word is that Simon Kinberg working on Star Wars is complete fiction, a rumour leaked by KK.

[beecee]

Who wrote that word on the bottom of the "World's Greatest Dad" mug? lol. Rude!

[MagnanimousEntropy]

This man is not the one to save these franchise.

[kloppsippingvarsenaltears]

2 franchise flops at the same time will be impressive.

[iainriley]

there hasn't been a really good SW's project after the first 3 films created sorry . Everything after is just lazy filler. As for Trek enjoyed all the New films highly enjoyable and loved the cast and filler history. But the TV shows Discovery so so bad, lower decks 🤮thank Crom at least we had Picard to save us, (but I will say in premiss section 31) has my interest and hopefully more views through the mirror darkly and maybe that Archer was really the temporal being and some extra Sulibon and Andorran's history's

[CloneShockTrooper]

Don’t trust this age of so called creatives.