
Trade paper The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that JJ Abrams is to direct the eleventh Star Trek movie. The latest movie will be centred round the young James T Kirk, and Spock, and will tell the story of their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and their first space mission.
Abrams directed Mission Impossible 3 and is the co-creator and executive producer of ABC’s Lost. He has been developing the Star Trek movie through his Bad Robot production company.