A newStar Trekmovie is in the works at Paramount Pictures. Deadline reports that Kalinda Vazquez has signed on with the studio to write anoriginal Star Trek moviewith J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions producing. Vazquez has previously written forStar Trek: Discovery, though it’s not yet clear if her new movie will be connected to any of the current shows on Paramount+ or if it will be a standalone story.
Along withStar Trek: Discovery,Kalinda Vazquezis also working on an HBO series adaptation of the Roger Zelazny sci-fi novelRoadmarks. Her other television credits includeRunaways,Once Upon a Time,Nikita,Human Target, andPrison Break. Velazquez has also served as an executive producer for the AMC horror seriesFear the Walking Dead.
With William Shatner playingCaptain James T. Kirk, theStar Trekseries made its first foray into movies with the 1979 motion picture with the original cast. That original run of movies concluded withStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered Countryin 1991. Patrick Stewart and the crew fromThe Next Generationwould follow this up by starring in fourStar Trekmovies of their own between 1994 and 2002. That story has continued in the new spinoff seriesStar Trek: Picardwhich brings back several characters fromThe Next Generation.
On the big screen, the franchise was rebooted withChris Pine taking over the role of Captain Kirkin 2009’sStar Trek. The rebooted cast also included Zachary Quinto as Spock, Karl Urban as Bones McCoy, Zoe Saldana as Nyota Uhura, Simon Pegg as Scotty, John Cho as Hikaru Sulu, and Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov. That movie was followed by two sequels in 2013 and 2016. The movies have been big hitters at the box office, and while they haven’t been without criticism, they’ve also been praised by many fans of the franchise.
The last time it had been reported that a newStar Trekmovie was in development,Fargocreator Noah Hawley had been tappedto develop a new reboot for the franchise. Last year, the filmmaker said that the studio pulled the plug on the project shortly before production as executives ultimately decided to go in a different direction. The states of the series had been on the shelf since, but it seems Paramount is pleased with the story that Vazquez has in mind.
There have been other false starts in the past for aStar Trekreboot, so we’ll see if this iteration has better luck. At one point, Quentin Tarantino was plotting to write an R-ratedStar Trekmovie, though he ended up walking away from the project. There have also long been rumors that the “Kelvin Timeline” cast would return for aStar Trek 4, but even the cast themselves don’t seem to have a clue if the project will ever actually happen or not.
Because the newStar Trekis very early into development, no actors are yet attached to the project. It’s not clear when filming will begin and a release date hasn’t yet been set. This news comes to us fromDeadline.
