With Star Trek and Star Trek into Darkness, director, screenwriter and producer JJ Abrams was able to help the franchise in the cinemas. Nevertheless, he didn’t stay for the final.
JJ Abram’s successes in film and television
Series creator JJ Abrams is known for numerous film and series projects. He was both behind Fringe – borderline cases of the FBI and behind alias – the agent and is considered a driving force behind the successful series Lost. Star Trek fans should be known as director of the Reboots from 2009 and 2013.
Despite the great success on the box office, Abrams left the new edition, although a third film should come out with Star Trek Beyond. Abrams declined to return as a director for the space adventure with the crew to return Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.
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A new voice for Star Trek
As Huff Post reported in 2016, there is a very specific reason for this decision by JJ Abrams. So the film and series creator explained in an interview shortly before:
After making two of these films, it was clear that it was the right step to hire another director, who brings his view and his voice into the procedure.
So Fast & Furious director Justin Lin came into play, who ended with Star Trek: Beyond the trilogy started by Abrams.
Abrams welcomed this change. According to him, it was an advantage for the franchise that Lin took a die-hard trekkie on the director’s chair.
After Into Darkness, JJ Abrams left the Star Trek cosmos as a director. With Star Wars: The last Jedi set up the Star War in 2015 and for Star Wars: he returned to Skywalkers as a replacement of Colin Trevrov on the director’s chair. Since then, Abrams has been actively operating as a producer.