Wrath of Khan Director Pitched New Trek Movie To Paramount

It turns out that Nicholas Meyer, writer and director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, is not quite done with the franchise. The director tells TrekMovie that he pitched a new Star Trek film that is set in continuity of the franchise but does not use any of the existing cast and could be used to launch a series of films or TV shows.

My partner Steven-Charles Jaffe and I wrote a whole treatment and plan for a Star Trek feature film. We didn’t write a whole script. We wrote a very detailed treatment and a whole pitch doc with illustrations. It’s very comprehensive thing. And we first we took it to Alex Kurtzman, then we took it to J.J. [Abrams], and then we took it to Emma Watts at Paramount.

It was a detailed proposal for what could have been a film, or it could have been a series, or it could have been a film leading to a series or a series leading to a film… It could be a series of films. Yeah, absolutely.

This was an independent piece of the Star Trek universe based on holes in the chronology, which would allow for the insertion of original material.

The director made the pitch last year and since then Paramount hired Kalinda Vazquez to write the script for the next film so its clear they rejected the pitch which is probably why Meyer was willing to talk about it. Still good to know he has ideas percolating that one day might come to screens in some form or fashion.