A New ‘Star Trek’ Movie Is Finally in Development

For a franchise recognized for boldly going the place nobody has gone earlier than, Paramount has been awfully tentative with Star Trek recently.

It’s now been nearly eight years because the final Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, premiered on the large display. There have been loads of new Star Trek reveals in that point, a few of them fairly good. But the big-screen franchise that includes Chris Pine as Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock has stalled out, with one idea after one other getting introduced after which deserted. (Remember when Star Trek 4 was imagined to be a time-travel story that includes Chris Hemsworth as Captain Kirk’s dad? I do!)

While we nonetheless haven’t any concrete phrase on Star Trek 4, it seems like Paramount might now be pivoting to creating a film that doesn’t contain that present Enterprise crew. The Hollywood Reporter says Seth Grahame-Smith is writing a brand new Star Trek that shall be directed by Andor’s Toby Haynes.

Here is how they describe the premise:

The plot is claimed to happen many years earlier than the occasions of 2009’s Star Trek, which J.J. Abrams helmed. Abrams’ Bad Robot will produce the film, which the studio is describing as an enlargement of its Trek universe.

 

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“Decades before” the occasions of Abrams’ Star Trek leaves lots of wiggle room for precisely when and the place this movie may happen. If you need to be actually technical about it, the early scenes of Abrams’ Trek had been set many years earlier than the remaining; it begins in the previous (of the longer term) with Kirk’s father (Chris Hemsworth, pre-Thor) sacrificing his life to save lots of a child Kirk and his mother. So joking apart, this film may theoretically characteristic Kirk’s dad. Or it may contain occasions that don’t have anything to do with the Enterprise. (Star Trek TV reveals, together with the present Strange New Worlds, have explored the years previous to the unique sequence and films.)

Personally, I nonetheless desire a fourth Star Trek with Pine, Quinto, and firm. Two of their three films had been so good. They deserve to complete out their five-year mission, even when it’s already been 5 years since they made the final film.