Guardians Of The Galaxy Star Zoe Saldana To Reprise Her Role In Star Trek 3 Movie To Be Released On The Series’ Golden Anniversary

Star Trek 3 movie release date will be on the 50th anniversary of the series. At least that's what the new writers of the highly anticipated sequel is aiming for. Guardians of the Galaxy star Zoe Saldana will be back to reprise her role with the rest of the original cast members Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.

With both "Attack the Block" director Joe Cornish and former producer and co-writer Alex Kurtzman officially out of the project, Star Trek 3 has announced that the two newbie writers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay will co-write the project with veteran Roberto Orci.

However, Joe Cornish's replacement is yet to be announced. During a talk with TCA Press Tour for NBC's new TV project "Believe," J.J. Abrams dismisses questions about the upcoming movie's new director.

Alex Kurtzman announced that he will be dropping out from the movie due to a number of projects that he's committed to do at the moment. While another writer who co-wrote the script of the Star Trek Into Darkness movie, Damon Lindelof will not be returning as well.

Hollywood Reporter first brought in the news about the Star Trek 3 movie release date and the new writers replacing Kurtzman:

"The duo will join Roberto Orci, who co-wrote the first two installments of the reboot with partner Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof. Orci is working without Kurtzman on this one.

The next Star Trek film is untitled and unscheduled, but Paramount and Skydance are hoping to have a film in time for the franchise to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2016. Stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana are expected to return."

With the new writers, coming in to pen the script could this mean that Star Trek 3 is in good hands, considering the fact that Star Trek Into Darkness was dubbed the worst movie in the sci-fi franchise.

Well that is something fans could always look forward to.

Meanwhile, Doctor Who star Karen Gillan has made a bold bald move for the Guardians of the Galaxy movie not only by taking on the role of the female lead villain Nebula, but also by shaving her long beautiful hair for the character.

The former Doctor Who star revealed some juicy information about the movie, and it involves some girl-on-girl combat action with none other than her "Guardians of the Galaxy" co-star Zoe Saldana.

"Nebula is the female villain and Lee Pace plays the male villain," she told E! Online's Marc Malkin while promoting her new horror film, Oculus, at SXSW. "We torment people. We're really mean to people."

"There's a big girlie fight sequence, but it's not that girlie," the actress told MTV during the same event. "They made sure there weren't any nice pirouettes or anything like that."

The bald Nebula versus the green-skinned Gamora, played by Zoe Saldana, who's being described as "the green-skinned humanoid who is the last of a species that was exterminated by a race known as the Badoon. She also happens to be a skilled assassin."

This will not be the first time for the "Guardians of the Galaxy" star Zoe Saldana to paint her skin for a role, unlike Gillan, the 35-year old actress played the blue creature Neytiri in the hit sci-fi flick Avatar way back in 2009.

"We're very angry towards each other," Gillan added. "There's a huge fight sequence. I had to train for two months before I could do it. We shot the thing for four days!"

The former Doctor Who star Karen Gillan was so much into her role that she did all of her stunts for the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and commends her "Guardians of the Galaxy" co-star Zoe Saldana for being physically ready for the film saying:

"She's really experienced in the physical stuff, she was a ballerina," Gillan admitted. "She's really amazing at all of that stuff. She barely required any rehearsal. She was like, 'I can do this.' I required two months of rehearsals every day that I wasn't shooting because I looked like spaghetti when I started."

"I did all of my stunts and a stunt double did them, too," Gillan revealed. "I refused knee pads at one point and of course then I bruised my knee but that was it."

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