Bryan Singer on the Potential of Ever Tackling Star Trek

The news that J.J. Abrams will be directing Star Wars Episode VII has many fans wondering what the future holds for the Star Trek cinematic franchise. Abrams has said he will stay on as a producer, but it's almost certain he will have far too much on his plate to helm a potential sequel to the upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness.

Naturally, fans have already started speculating on who might take over if there should be a third Star Trek film (which in all likelihood there will be). We recently spoke to Bryan Singer (X-Men), a self-professed Trekkie -- he even had a cameo in Star Trek: Nemesis -- and asked if he would consider taking on this franchise that has meant so much to him now that Abrams’ directorial duties are likely coming to a close.

IGN: You're a big Star Trek fan. Now that J.J. Abrams is, not stepping away entirely, but moving on to other things, is that a franchise you'd like to take on?

Singer: I don't know. Even though Matthew Vaughn directed X-Men: First Class, I produced it, I wrote the story, I was involved in the casting and the design of the movie itself, so I don't feel like I'm taking on someone else's franchise. I'm jumping back into my own. Particularly with this movie [X-Men: Days of Future Past], because it involves the old cast as well. It's a very different thing jumping into someone else's franchise, someone else's cast. It was very tough when Brett Ratner did it with mine, you know. And you're held up, particularly if it's something that people really like what the originator did, you're held to a very, very tough standard when you're jumping into somebody else's franchise. It's a very scary thing to do cause' they're waiting to judge you. And sometimes it works like Aliens.

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IGN: Right, which was both amazing and really a whole new/its own thing.

Singer: Right because that was a very different thing. Alien was a science-fiction masterpiece horror film that Ridley Scott made and Jim [Cameron] just did an action film. But a sequel to a character charged Star Trek...I'm friends with some of the cast and I was on the set recently. I'm friends with J.J. [Abrams] and so I was on the set visiting, which was really cool and it looks really awesome. They're really great people. Chris Pine is lovely and I'm friends with Zack [Quinto] and they're all great. That would be the most fun part, to work with those people and to work with the lore that I love. I just...I'm like, the pressure of doing it would freak me out. Or might freak me out. That being said, if someone presented a story and a structure and the original director was supporting you, really supporting you and producing with you and behind you then maybe it would be a great experience.

Roth Cornet is an Entertainment Editor for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @RothCornet and IGN at Roth-IGN.

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