Star Trek 3 (really, Star Trek 13) is well into development now that Simon Pegg and Doug Jung are writing the script with Justin Lin (Fast and Furious) in the director’s chair. It’s believed that the story put forward by Roberto Orci has now been pushed aside, but that’s not 100% confirmed.
According to our friends over at Film Divider, Paramount were looking to have a “Bryan Cranston-like role” as the main villain. So much so that they now want Cranston for the part and the actor has had “brief discussions” with the studio about the project. Of course, Cranston is an actor that has been rumoured to be the villain in various pictures over the past year or so, so take this with a pinch of salt.
In other Star Trek 3 (13) news, it looks like there will be not one, not two but three new female characters added to the line-up. One would be the captain of another federation ship, one would be President of the United Federation of Planets and the final part would be that of Doctor McCoy’s ex-wife. The site claims the ex-wife could be Jocelyn Treadway or Pamela Branch, depending which way the screenplay goes.
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The as-yet-untitled Star Trek 3 is set for release on July 8th, 2016 and will see returning cast members Chris Pine as James Kirk, Zachery Quinto as Spock, Zoë Saldana as Uhura, Karl Urban as Bones, John Cho as Sulu and Anton Yelchin as Chekov.
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Originally published February 3, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
