Paramount Officially Confirms Star Trek Origin Movie

The annual CinemaCon was held in Vegas this week where the studios put on show and tells for theater executives to help get their support in promoting their various movie plans for the next year or so. As part of that Paramount revealed their movie plans. While light on details, this is the first official confirmation that Paramount is working on "Untitled Star Trek Origin Story". 

Since Toby Haynes (Black Mirror: USS Callister) was hired to direct with Seth Grahame-Smith (Beetlejuice 2) writing, it was already basically official anyway but nothing wrong with a public announcement to mark the commitment. Little is known about this story except it is set before even Star Trek (2009) and probably Star Trek: Discovery so it can act as an origin story for both universes (Prime and Kelvin). The assumption is its an origin story about Starfleet but so far nothing to actually verify that. 

Other Paramount plans include Mission Impossible 8 on May 23, 2025, Gladiator II, remake of The Running Man with Edgar Wright, Transformers crossover with GI Joe, Naked Gun film with Liam Neeson, live-action graphic novel adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin that will be R-rated and more.