Star Trek 4 (?) -- news, rumors, etc.
08-27-22, 12:30 PM
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I mean with Strange New Worlds that’s kind of a fair point. It fills the void of a TOS era Star Trek show. I wouldn’t mind seeing more of the Kelvin timeline cast but you’re right there’s not really much need. Especially because that show has Spock and Uhura already and Kirk is being introduced.
09-27-22, 09:20 PM
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And to nobody's surprise, pulled from Paramount's release schedule: https://www.darkhorizons.com/paramou...from-schedule/
09-27-22, 09:47 PM
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I’m going to borrow from another franchise for my reaction: imagine the exasperated sigh that Kif from Futurama makes, and that’s how I feel.
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03-27-24, 10:30 AM
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‘Star Trek 4’ Beams Up New Screenwriter: ‘The Flight Attendant’ Co-Creator Steve Yockey (EXCLUSIVE)
Steve Yockey, co-creator of the Max series “The Flight Attendant,” is joining Starfleet as the new screenwriter for “Star Trek 4.”
Story details remain under a powerful cloaking device, but Paramount Pictures still intends the project to be the final chapter for the cast that rebooted the franchise in movie theaters with 2009’s “Star Trek,” including Chris Pine (as Capt. James T. Kirk), Zachary Quinto (as Cmdr. Spock), Zoe Saldaña (as Lt. Nyota Uhura), Karl Urban (as Dr. Leonard McCoy), John Cho (as Lt. Hikaru Sulu) and Simon Pegg (as chief engineer Montgomery Scott). (Variety first reported the news in its cover story on the future of the “Star Trek” franchise.)
Bringing the cast back following 2016’s “Star Trek Beyond” has proven trickier for the studio than finding an altruistic Ferengi. At least three previous attempts fell apart for various reasons, most recently with director Matt Shakman (“WandaVision”) and screenwriters Lindsey Beer (“Sierra Burgess Is a Loser”) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (“Captain Marvel”) that the studio had slated to open in late 2023. When Shakman left the film in 2022 to direct “The Fantastic Four” for Marvel Studios, however, Paramount pulled it from its slate and sent it back to spacedock.
Yockey’s involvement is the most promising sign of forward momentum the project has had since. The playwright started his TV writing career on the MTV series “Awkward” and “Scream,” before joining the writing staff of “Supernatural” for four seasons. His latest series, the Sandman universe adaptation “Dead Boy Detectives,” will premiere on Netflix in April.
Paramount is also developing a separate “Star Trek” project, with writer Seth Grahame-Smith (“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”) and director by Toby Haynes (“Black Mirror: USS Callister”), that would feature a new cast in a story meant as a kind of origin story for the franchise. A project with screenwriter Kalinda Vazquez (“Fear the Walking Dead”) first announced in 2021 also remains in development.
Steve Yockey, co-creator of the Max series “The Flight Attendant,” is joining Starfleet as the new screenwriter for “Star Trek 4.”
Story details remain under a powerful cloaking device, but Paramount Pictures still intends the project to be the final chapter for the cast that rebooted the franchise in movie theaters with 2009’s “Star Trek,” including Chris Pine (as Capt. James T. Kirk), Zachary Quinto (as Cmdr. Spock), Zoe Saldaña (as Lt. Nyota Uhura), Karl Urban (as Dr. Leonard McCoy), John Cho (as Lt. Hikaru Sulu) and Simon Pegg (as chief engineer Montgomery Scott). (Variety first reported the news in its cover story on the future of the “Star Trek” franchise.)
Bringing the cast back following 2016’s “Star Trek Beyond” has proven trickier for the studio than finding an altruistic Ferengi. At least three previous attempts fell apart for various reasons, most recently with director Matt Shakman (“WandaVision”) and screenwriters Lindsey Beer (“Sierra Burgess Is a Loser”) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (“Captain Marvel”) that the studio had slated to open in late 2023. When Shakman left the film in 2022 to direct “The Fantastic Four” for Marvel Studios, however, Paramount pulled it from its slate and sent it back to spacedock.
Yockey’s involvement is the most promising sign of forward momentum the project has had since. The playwright started his TV writing career on the MTV series “Awkward” and “Scream,” before joining the writing staff of “Supernatural” for four seasons. His latest series, the Sandman universe adaptation “Dead Boy Detectives,” will premiere on Netflix in April.
Paramount is also developing a separate “Star Trek” project, with writer Seth Grahame-Smith (“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”) and director by Toby Haynes (“Black Mirror: USS Callister”), that would feature a new cast in a story meant as a kind of origin story for the franchise. A project with screenwriter Kalinda Vazquez (“Fear the Walking Dead”) first announced in 2021 also remains in development.
03-27-24, 10:36 AM
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Ok.
I still enjoy the Kelvin films, they put together a pretty darn good cast, but they're taking so damn long they're going to have to do a major time jump to account for their ages.
Hmm, maybe that's the secret - do a story about them getting older and maybe Starfleet is trying to separate them out onto different ships.
But at this point, I'm enjoying the hell out of Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds, and even Prodigy has some fun bits to it, so if this never happens, then Beyond makes a decent close to the Kelvin films in my book.
I still enjoy the Kelvin films, they put together a pretty darn good cast, but they're taking so damn long they're going to have to do a major time jump to account for their ages.
Hmm, maybe that's the secret - do a story about them getting older and maybe Starfleet is trying to separate them out onto different ships.
But at this point, I'm enjoying the hell out of Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds, and even Prodigy has some fun bits to it, so if this never happens, then Beyond makes a decent close to the Kelvin films in my book.
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03-27-24, 04:43 PM
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03-27-24, 05:26 PM
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The timeline could be far enough along now that they could probably bring in someone like Zendaya or Sydney Sweeney as Lt. Saavik. Or would she not exist here because Vulcan blew up?
03-27-24, 07:01 PM
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She could have been among those who evacuated before the planet was destroyed.
03-28-24, 03:18 AM
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Star Trek is in a much different place than it was in 2009. I'm not entirely sure this is really necessary. Sure I'd love to see the Kelvin timeline one more time but I'm much more vested in Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks (and hopefully Legacy) at this point.
03-28-24, 03:23 AM
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03-28-24, 09:54 AM
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Apples and oranges.
I literally grew up with the TOS crew and they will always have a place in my heart. You seriously cannot fathom how comforting these movies were to me as a kid.
But if they had to reboot, I think they managed to put together a pretty good group of actors, especially Karl Urban.
It’s beta canon, but the older novels had her growing up mostly feral on a colony planet before being rescued by some other Vulcans.
03-28-24, 09:37 PM
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I think Decker was just making the point that the Kelvinverse actors are not that old. Especially compared to TOS cast when they were filming the movies. Yeah sure a lot of time has past since Beyond but it's nothing worth noting in the movie itself. I don't think they need to develop a multimovie story arc on Captain Kirk's reading glasses.
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03-28-24, 11:12 PM
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03-29-24, 07:22 AM
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As I remember they do a goodbye to old friends type toast at the end and the camera kinda stops or lingers on Yelchin for the audience’s benefit but it doesn’t address Chekov leaving in universe at all.
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tanman (03-29-24)
03-29-24, 12:27 PM
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I’m pretty sure all the filming was done when he died so they used some coverage footage of Anton to show while Kirk was saying the comment about lost friends.
Edit: checking the dates, it looks like he died the month before release so my theory is probably the only thing they could do on such short notice.
Edit: checking the dates, it looks like he died the month before release so my theory is probably the only thing they could do on such short notice.
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tanman (03-29-24)
03-29-24, 10:11 PM
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I think they did a dedication/tribute in the end credits for Anton, but he died too close to release date to do anything in-story.
I remember around the film's release that people thought they might replace Chekov on the bridge with the Jaylah, Sofia Boutella's character, in subsequent films.
I remember around the film's release that people thought they might replace Chekov on the bridge with the Jaylah, Sofia Boutella's character, in subsequent films.
03-30-24, 12:23 AM
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As I recall, all that was known for certain is that J.J. Abrams insisted they were not going to recast Chekov. I believe that's when the rumours started regarding Jaylah.
