Next Star Trek Theatrical Movie Finds Its Director

Paramount has penciled in a release date of Star Trek 4 as June 9, 2023 giving them 2 years to get the film made.  They have now gotten the process into the next gear by hiring Matt Shakman (WandaVision, Game of Thrones) as the untitled Star Trek 4 film director.  The movie will be produced by JJ Abrams via Bad Robot production using a script written by Lindsey Beer (nothing out yet to point at) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Tomb Raider, Captain Marvel). 

This is around the 4th or 5th Star Trek script attempt Paramount has made (that we know about) to return Star Trek to the big screen with all the previous others cancelled for various reasons. The previous known attempt was a script from Noah Hawley (Fargo) that was trash canned mostly due to a leadership change at Paramount. 

As for when, where and who of the story, nothing is known. There was not even a hint if its with Kelvin Enterprise crew lead by Chris Pine's Kirk, returning to the Prime universe to take advantage of the 5 Star Trek series that have launched since Trek was last on the big screen or it even could introduce a whole new crew in one of those universes (likely Prime if taking this route). Time will tell.