MTV has confirmed what many of us already knew: Jon Favreau is not going to direct “The Avengers” movie. While fans were holding out hope that somehow Jon would find the time to take on the project, with his involvement in “Cowboys and Aliens” after he finishes “Iron Man 2″, he’ll only be executive producing “The Avengers”. The other bit of news is Jon saying Edward Norton will not be making an appearance in “Iron Man 2″. While many have tried to keep that rumor going, I’m glad we can finally kill it off. More on the story after the jump:

At a press day for the upcoming DVD releases of both Star Trek (out on DVD and Blu-Ray on November 17^th) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (out on DVD and Blu-Ray on October 20^th) writer/producers Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman took time to preview their upcoming release schedule.

While still trying to break stories for the Star Trek sequel, the twosome are pushing their next project, Cowboys and Aliens, into production with director Jon Favreau, are working on developing a View-Master film, and also oversee at least a couple episodes of the television series Fringe each season. What they had to say is after the jump:

Comic book publishing company Platinum Studios, not to be confused with Platinum Dunes, will be joining forces with producer Tony Krantz (”Mulholland Dr.”) to develop a live-action adaptation of the graphic novel “Mal Chance” with Scott Murphy (”Star Wars: The Clone Wars”, “Angel”) writing the screenplay.  The graphic novel which tells the story of an assassin named Lola who has been targeted for death by a powerful gangster will be joining the recently announced “Cowboys and Aliens” as one of the new Platinum Studious properties which aim to make it to the big screen soon.  You can get all the details when you hit the jump.

Just a few hours ago I was doing every “Star Trek” fan a favor…I was asking screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman what they were planning on doing in the sequel to the biggest film of the year. Yes, you read that right. “Star Trek” is the biggest domestic release with over $235 million dollars at the box office!

Anyway, the reason I got to ask them some questions is not only did they write “Trek”, but they also wrote the first “Transformers” movie and co-wrote the sequel. So at todays press junket for the second “Giant F*cking Robot Movie”, I managed to land another exclusive interview with two of the busiest writers in town and we talked about everything. In fact, we covered so many subjects that I’m breaking the interview into two parts.

In today’s post I’ve got everything they said on the “Star Trek” sequel and “Cowboys and Aliens”, and in the next one, expect info on their other movies, “Fringe”, and “Transformers Revenge of the Fallen”.

But let’s get to why you’re here…”Star Trek”. And it’s all after the jump: