Paramount decides to reboot the Star Trek saga at the cinema with a brand new film
Goodbye Chris Pine. The JJ Abrams trilogy fizzled out. The franchise will relaunch in theaters with a new team.
The Federation is recruiting new blood.
Paramount has decided to relaunch its saga Star Trek at the cinema with a brand new film entrusted to the duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, the directors of Dungeons & Dragons: Thieves’ Honor and co-writers of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Objective: to get the engines running again after ten years without an expedition to the big screen.
This project will not continue the saga initiated by JJ Abrams in the 2000s and will not include Chris Pine, nor any member of the crew launched in 2009. The new film, intended for the cinema, will therefore not be a 4th opus of the adventures of young James T. Kirk. It will also not be linked to the series that have been running for a decade on Paramount + (Discovery, Picard Or Strange New Worlds) nor even to the numerous projects aborted in recent years. In short: Paramount is starting from a blank page.
From Star Trek: Limitless in 2016, the construction of a new feature film experienced more turbulence than a flight into an ion storm. Chris Hemsworth almost returned as the (deceased) father of Captain Kirk. Quentin Tarantino considered a Star Trek ’30s gangster style. Noah Hawley and Matt Shakman came so close to filming that sets were already under construction, before both projects collapsed. The two directors have since left to colonize other galaxies: Hawley with Alien: Earth for FX, Shakman with Fantastic Four cat Marvel.
Paramount eventually flirted with the idea of a final chapter written by Steve Yockey, bringing together Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldaña. Then a original movie entrusted to Toby Haynes (Andor) from a script by Seth Grahame-Smith. Today, both projects are drifting in the void of space…
But the studio hopes to have taken a step back to jump better. Because restart Star Trek has been a priority since David Ellison-led Skydance took over Paramount this summer. The franchise remains one of the studio’s most treasured gems.
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (the late Sweets for fans of Bones) are old accomplices of Skydance: their film Maydaystarring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh, produced through their GoldDay banner, will soon land on Apple TV+. We also owe them comedy Game Night.
So will they be able to restart the Enterprise’s engines? And with which Captain in command? For now, nothing has been revealed about the script.
