For a franchise identified for boldly going the place nobody has gone earlier than, Paramount has been awfully tentative with Star Trek currently.
It’s now been virtually eight years for the reason that final Star Trek film, Star Trek Past, premiered on the large display screen. There have been loads of new Star Trek reveals in that point, a few of them fairly good. However 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. (Bear in mind when Star Trek 4 was speculated to be a time-travel story that includes Chris Hemsworth as Captain Kirk’s dad? I do!)
Whereas we nonetheless haven’t any concrete phrase on Star Trek 4, it appears to be like like Paramount could 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 will likely be directed by Andor’s Toby Haynes.
Right 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’ Dangerous Robotic will produce the film, which the studio is describing as an growth of its Trek universe.
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“A long time earlier than” the occasions of Abrams’ Star Trek leaves a number of wiggle room for precisely when and the place this movie might happen. If you wish to be actually technical about it, the early scenes of Abrams’ Trek had been set many years earlier than the remaining; it begins prior to now (of the longer term) with Kirk’s father (Chris Hemsworth, pre-Thor) sacrificing his life to avoid wasting a child Kirk and his mother. So joking apart, this film might theoretically characteristic Kirk’s dad. Or it might contain occasions that don’t have anything to do with the Enterprise. (Star Trek TV reveals, together with the present Unusual New Worlds, have explored the years previous to the unique collection and films.)
Personally, I nonetheless desire a fourth Star Trek with Pine, Quinto, and firm. Two of their three motion pictures 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.
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