“We are thrilled to say that we are hard at work on a new ‘Star Trek’ film that will be shooting by the end of the year that will be featuring our original cast and some new characters that I think are going to be really fun and exciting and help take ‘Star Trek’ into areas that you’ve just never seen before,” Abrams said. “We’re thrilled about this film, we have a bunch of other stories that we’re talking about that we think will be really exciting, so can’t wait for you to see what we’re cooking up. But until then, live long and prosper.”
Star Trek 4 had been circulating for a while with Paramount having already announced that Matt Shakman (WandaVision) was directing the film with a penciled in release date of December 22, 2023. Since 2016, each year would bring new script writers and this year is no different. This time Josh Friedman (Avatar 2) and Cameron Squires (WandaVision) are writing it but basing it the script that 2021 writing team Lindsey Beer (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) put together.
Variety is reporting that Paramount only decided to set the movie in the Kelvin-verse after "the studio has done market research to determine audience interest in the rebooted cast ...that there was still lasting audience enthusiasm for Pine, Quinto and
the rest of the cast in their established roles, which allowed the
studio to feel comfortable with moving forward with bringing them back." A significant bump in the road is deals have not been signed with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho and Simon Pegg as negotiations have not even started. The hope is to start filming by the end of the year assuming they can get the actors' busy schedules on the same page.
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