Paramount Pictures just dropped a bombshell, there’s a new Star Trek film coming. The film company announced today that a heap of films they were producing was going to be moved to new dates. Those films included the sequel film, Top Gun: Maverick, both Mission Impossible 7 and 8, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, Dungeons and Dragons, and surprise, surprise; an untitled Star Trek project.
The reshuffling was a huge move for the studio, and they sneakily announced the unnamed Star Trek film; right now tentative for June 9, 2023. Deadline was the original source for the information.
That wasn’t the only piece of info that came out today. Not only is the film set for two years from June, but that J.J. Abrams would return to produce the project. It’s being described as “top-secret”, which may suggest that this could be a reboot of the Next Generation of characters; though that’s just speculation.
TrekMovie.com got a quote from Paramount Studios, which said;
"The UNTITLED STAR TREK film is a top-secret project that we’re developing with J.J. Abrams producing."
The only other thing we know is that Star Trek: Discovery writer Kalinda Vazquez will be writing the original screenplay.
There have been many rumors about the next Star Trek film, from a fourth film in the Kirk-Kelvin Timeline to a Noah Hawley production that was rumored to focus on a pandemic (this was alleged to be written pre-Covid) and a Quentin Tarantino project that made many die-hard fans very apprehensive.
The new film has no more details about it, but it’ll more likely be a new cast and crew, as Chris Pine has gone on record on more than one occasion to say he’s done with the franchise but would love to see his friends and former colleagues keep making the films.
It’s always possible that Pine could be brought back, so the idea that Vazquez is writing a fourth Kelvin film is still a possibility.