“New one star trek The movie is coming!”
Here at io9 we’ve been telling you quite a few over the past few years — most recently last week, with the news that D&D: Honor Among Thieves Tag team Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley were focusing their attention there, where, as it turns out, many filmmakers have gone before. although perhaps star trekI have another friend ,star The franchise genre has been in the news for the past few years due to its inability to bring a film to the big screen (this fate will finally change next year), Travel Got an even longer break from the silver screen with a break in between star trek beyond And now whatever lies ahead is longer than the gap between—and is only growing slavery and the 2009 JJ Abrams reboot.
However, this has not been for lack of effort. Over the years, even as star trek After flourishing in its streaming TV renaissance, Paramount has attempted to acquire several Travel Film projects have begun, some of which remain in indefinite limbo and others failing to ever leave spacedock. Here are details of what was and may still be in the works.
star trek 4 (2015, dead by 2025)
Oh, poor guy! star trek 4What a long history it has had – multiple directors, multiple deaths, and times when other projects on this list initially started as potential Outside As did attempts to create it, only to turn it into its own thing that essentially died its own death.
The possibility of a fourth entry in the “Kelvin Timeline” series now seems to be gone forever, with last month’s news from Paramount (in a post-Skydance-acquisition world) that the studio was moving forward with the idea of reuniting a reboot. enterprise Cast on for another adventure. They say “never say never,” but you should probably say this about this.
Quentin Tarantino’s star trek Film (2017, deceased as of 2019)
The first of many projects on this list was one that probably looked like star trek 4 before it happens star trek 4Quentin Tarantino’s Travel The film was, at one time, believed to be one of the director’s final films before his retirement.
Billed as an R-rated take on the franchise, Tarantino eventually revealed that the project never actually left the early stages, with the director wanting to move forward instead of making it his potential final directorial project. Although initially rumored to be unrelated to the “Calvin” films, in 2021 screenwriter Mark L. Smith revealed that the project will focus on Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk, sending him back to 1930s America in a mobster tale inspired by the classic. Travel Episode “A Piece of the Action”.
Noah Hawley’s star trek Film (2019, finished 2025)
one more “star trek 4 But Not” situation, Hawley was initially attached as the latest director star trek 4 Before he himself came out and distanced himself from the film star trek 4He described his film as a “new beginning”.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic put Hawley’s film on hold indefinitely and ultimately scrapped it altogether. Which is probably for the best, since Hawley’s idea apparently focused on a virus that wiped out most of the known universe. Oh, and Android, at some point? Wonder how much of that eventually got in alien: earth,
Kalinda Vazquez’s star trek Film (2021, Fate Unknown)
this can happen star trek We know the least about the film on this list. Search Author Vazquez was tapped to write a new star trek Film—not particularly star trek 4-In March 2021. We haven’t heard anything since.
whatever star trek The film Paramount was bold enough to announce for June 9, 2023 (2021, due out sometime before June 9, 2023)
No: it Is star trek We know the least about the film on this list. A month after the revelation about Vazquez’s film, Paramount dates it without a title star trek movie for June 9, 2023, she was exclusively No Vazquez’s film, and was simply a project produced by J.J. Abrams.
June 9, 2023 came and went without coming star trek film.
patrick stewart’s star trek Film (2024, Fate Unknown)
Not satisfied with a full three-season TV show, which ended the story of Jean-Luc Picard for good, in early 2024 Patrick Stewart announced that a new star trek the film that continues the beloved next generation Work was going on on the Captain’s journey. It’s unknown if this film was made for the big screen or was a planned streaming similar to this year’s (unfortunately incredibly bad) Michelle Yeoh vehicle Section 31Or if, frankly, it’s happening at all.
Seth Grahame-Smith and Toby Haynes’ star trek Film (2024, Fate Unknown)
A few days after Stewart’s revelation, Paramount announced that it had assigned writer Seth Grahame-Smith and director Toby Haynes to develop another new one. star trek The film, apparently, is based on the early days of Starfleet’s founding.
Little has been revealed since then, except that Simon Kinberg may produce more and potentially shepherd the star trek Movies… However, this was all before Paramount was acquired by Skydance, so it’s hard to say if that’s still the case.
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daly star trek Film (2025, Fate Unknown)
And that brings us to our latest star trek Project, like last week! Again, like many of the films that came before it, we know barely anything about this film: beyond Goldstein and Daley’s involvement, the only concrete information so far is that (again, like many of the films on this list), this project stands alone, separate from any prior Travel character or series.
The only reason it feels more solid than anything that came before it is because it’s completely new for the first time star trek The project was announced under Paramount’s new ownership. However, as the rest of this list shows, nothing is certain until we actually have our backs to the movie theater seats to see it.
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