Altman co-wrote the pic with Robert Meyer Burnett and it won numerous awards five years ago, including Best New Writer award from the Writer's Guild of America and the Best Picture/New Directions award at the AFI 1998 Film Festival. Altman says Shatner is onboard for a sequel currently in development.

"Rob and I are writing the script now and Shatner's onboard and we have a great idea so that's a bit of an exclusive," he said. "We haven't really announced this yet. I didn't really want to do a sequel, but Rob and I came up with a great idea that we took to Shatner that he loved and proceeded to make even better and now it's taken on a life of its own. It's sort of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM" meets SWINGERS."

You can read more from Altman on all his latest projects at Entertainment Zone.

Former STAR TREK scribe Michael Taylor was honored yesterday with a nomination for a Nebula Award for his work on THE DEAD ZONE script "Unreasonable Doubt." The awards are sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to recognize excellent genre work. Taylor will go up against Joss Whedon for his musical BUFFY installment "Once More With Feeling," Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (SHREK) and Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson (LOTR: TFOTR).

Taylor joined the Michael Piller-produced DEAD ZONE as a co-producer after several years aboard both DEEP SPACE NINE and VOYAGER where his first script, "The Visitor" became a STAR TREK classic and was recognized with a Hugo nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation. This year's Nebula Awards will be presented in Philadelphia April 18-20.

Check out Sci-Fi Wire for the full list of nominess.