15 years on from the release of the J.J. Abrams-directed reboot, Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind 2009’s Star Trek… Star Trek is an IP that requires little introduction. The iconic 1960s television series created by Gene Roddenberry became a pop-culture phenomenon of unparalleled proportions transforming the likes of Williams Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest […]
Star Trek 4 attaches a new writer as Chris Pine and the cast are set to return
Board The Enterprise once again, as we are heading back to deep space. Yes, Star Trek 4 is still alive at Paramount, with Variety confirming that Steve Yockey, one of the minds behind the Max series The Flight Attendant, has just signed on as the screenwriter for the project. The more significant and shocking news […]
Quentin Tarantino jumped ship from Star Trek because he didn’t want it to be his final movie
There have been more stories surrounding Quentin Tarantino’s Hard-R Star Trek film then there have been Captain’s Logs, and now writer Mark L. Smith has been speaking about why the director’s ‘Pulp Fiction in space‘ never came to fruition. The Revenant screenwriter was speaking with Collider about his latest venture, George Clooney’s The Boys in […]
Star Trek 4 writer reveals that the sequel is “still on the tracks”
The Captain’s Log for Star Trek 4 must be running low on storage space, because the trapped-in-limbo Trek has suffered a director departure, had its release date removed from the Paramount schedule, and even Chris Pine has admitted he knows nothing about it. However, in a recent interview the film’s writer Lindsey Anderson Beer has […]
Chris Pine admits that he doesn’t know anything about Star Trek 4
As Chris Pine prepares to headline a brand new franchise with Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, he has been reflecting upon his stint on the bridge of Starship Enterprise, and in the process admitting that he doesn’t know anything about the current state of Star Trek 4. With thrusters in reverse on J.J. Abrams […]
WandaVision director Matt Shakman on leaving Star Trek 4 for Fantastic Four
If you remember, in August of last year, Matt Shakman left the director’s chair on the next Star Trek film to helm Fantastic Four for Marvel Studios. The decision wasn’t entirely shocking to fans, given Shakman’s work with the MCU before, but his sudden departure from Star Trek 4 came after the director had been […]
Zoe Saldaña says years in franchise films has made her feel “artistically stuck”
Zoe Saldaña has quite the impressive resume. Just in the last decade or so, she’s appeared in Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy (as well as multiple Avengers movies), and Star Trek. It’s fair to say that working on projects like that, sometimes back-to-back, can become draining. In a new interview, Zoe Saldaña says it has […]
Paramount officially removes Star Trek 4 from release schedule
Bad news for anyone hoping to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations with Star Trek 4, because Paramount have officially beamed the film out of its intended December 22nd, 2023 release date. The news comes as another blow for the fourth installment of the Chris Pine captained timeline, which has […]
WandaVision’s Matt Shakman exits Star Trek 4 to direct Marvel’s Fantastic Four
Bad news for Paramount Pictures and its plans to drag Star Trek 4 out of development hell, as WandaVision helmer Matt Shakman has vacated the director’s chair on the sci-fi sequel in favour of a return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “Matt Shakman is an incredibly talented filmmaker, and we regret the timing didn’t align […]
Chris Pine thinks Star Trek need to play to its audience rather than chasing billion dollar box office
Although the original announcement came as a surprise to the cast, it seems that Paramount Pictures is finally set to reunite the NuTrek crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise for the long-rumoured Star Trek 4. Under J.J. Abrams, the Trek franchise reinvented itself back in 2009 with a big screen reboot led by Chris Pine as […]
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