'Star Trek 3' News, Rumors: J.J. Abrams Won't Direct 'Star Trek Into Darkness' 2015 Sequel Due To 'Star Wars 7', Director 'Emotionally Hurt' By Franchise Video Games

Considering the sequel to 2012's smash hit Star Trek Into Darkness will start filming in 2014, alongside Abrams' other project Star Wars: Episode VII, the popular filmmaker will not be directing the next Star Trek movie. He will still be producing, according to the director himself.

"It's a little bittersweet," Abrams revealed in a recent interview. "But I will say that I'm going to be producing the movie. Whomever it is that directs the film will be someone we all know is going to keep the cast and crew in good hands. I feel very lucky to have been part of it, and it definitely feels like the right time to let someone come in and do their own thing."

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In other Star Trek news, Abrams is not too happy with the latest video game involving his characters.

He said: "The last game, which was obviously a big disappointment to me, was something that we were actually involved in from the very beginning and then we sort of realized that it was not going in a place where we were going to get what we wanted, so we dropped out and they continued to do it despite... y'know. "Y'know", in this instance, is polite-speak for "it sucked."

Abrams continued: "To me the video game could have been something that actually really benefitted the series and was an exciting, fun game with great gameplay, and instead it was not and was something that I think, for me emotionally it hurt, 'cause we were working our asses off making the movie and then this game came out and it got, this isn't even my opinion, it got universally panned and I think that it was something without question that didn't help the movie and arguably hurt it."

But Abrams isn't giving up on a video game adaptation of his Star Trek films just yet.

"The dream is - we're working with Valve right now on a couple of projects - is to say okay, despite its existence as a game, despite its existence as a movie, what makes this great? And starting from scratch, let's make this from the ground up great, regardless of what's come before," he recently explained.

"And that's me," he continued. "Whether it's a video game or a book or a movie or a song. Anything that is based on something else, it needs to exist on its own terms. And a lot of times these seem to exist as an ancillary product, in which case it will suck."