‘Star Trek 4’ Removed From Release Calendar

This has actually been a protracted voyage residence.

The unhappy ongoing saga of Star Trek 4 has gotten even sadder, as Paramount has eliminated the mission from its upcoming launch calendar. They had beforehand slated the movie to open in theaters on December 22, 2023.

This is simply the newest bump in a protracted and pothole-ridden street for this fourth Star Trek movie that includes the “Kelvin Timeline” forged of Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, and extra. A fourth Star Trek film with this crew was introduced together with the discharge of the earlier film, 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. But that model — which might have teamed Pine’s Captain Kirk with Chris Hemsworth as his dad — by no means acquired off the bottom. Neither did a subsequent model that will have been directed by Quentin Tarantino, or one other model directed by Noah Hawley. The most up-to-date idea in growth was going to be directed by Matt Shakman, however earlier this summer season he left Star Trek 4 to take over Marvel’s upcoming Fantastic Four film.

Although Paramount introduced that Star Trek 4 could be in manufacturing by the tip of this yr and launched round Christmas 2023, they hadn’t really gotten Pine and the remainder of the forged to signal on for the mission on the time; Pine later claimed he had no thought they had been going to announce the film once they did. It doesn’t appear to be there was a lot precise momentum behind the movie past the proclamations that it was coming.

While we look ahead to the inevitable subsequent announcement a few Star Trek 4 we in all probability won’t ever really see, we will watch the various Star Trek reveals on Paramount+, together with Discovery and the very entertaining Strange New Worlds, which is able to characteristic a younger Captain Kirk on its upcoming second season (albeit one not performed by Chris Pine). That’s simply pretty much as good as a brand new film, proper?