After years of stops and starts, Paramount is making a step towards returning Star Trek to the big screen. Toby Haynes, who directed episodes of Andor, will helm a new feature, with Seth Grahame-Smith writing.
The plot is said to take place decades before the events of 2009’s Star Trek, which J.J. Abrams helmed. Abrams’ Bad Robot will produce the movie.
Trek has largely lived in the world of TV and streaming in recent years, where Paramount+ has a number of shows, including Strange New Worlds, Discovery the animated Lower Decks and Picard, which wrapped last year.
Star Trek Beyond, the most recent Trek film, hit theaters in 2016 and starred Chris Pine as Captain Kirk, the role he first played in 2009’s Star Trek, directed by J.J. Abrams. Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldaña, John Cho and the late Anton Yelchin starred. Paramount is still developing a fourth Star Trek to feature that cast.
Paramount has spent years figuring out a new big screen take for Star Trek. In 2016, it announced a Star Trek 4 to star Chris Hemsworth alongside Chris Pine’s Enterprise crew. That film never came to fruition, and filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and Noah Hawley took stabs at developing their own, unrelated takes. During a Paramount investor’s day in February 2022, producer J.J. Abrams made the surprise announcement a new installment was in the works with the Pine-led crew, a move that took even the cast by surprise. WandaVision‘s Matt Shakman was on board to direct, but departed in August to take on Fantastic Four for Marvel Studios.
Deadline first reported the news.
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