It’s very likely that Star Trek 4 is dead.
Are you hoping for Star Trek? No? Good! Yes? Oof, it may be time to sit down, buddy. It’s not happening. Not anytime soon, if not ever. Paramount has so much in fighting over the direction they want to go, that it’s actively affecting the product on screen. Which screen? Every screen.
Speaking with the crowd at the recent Star Trek: Las Vegas event (via Inverse), Star Trek star Zachary Quinto (J.J. Abram’s Spock), revealed that there is no movement on the fourth film and there doesn’t appear to be anyone trying to make it happen.
Quinto goes on to say;
"I think it’s about different people having different agendas and ideas about what it will be. i don’t know if and when it will happen … if it coalesces again and we come back and we’re able to do it, wonderful. If not, we had a great run"
Star Trek 4 has been doomed from the start
Going back to the start of last year, when Star Trek 4 was formally announced by Paramount, the whole thing has been a disaster. None of the crew were under contract when the announcement happened, nor was there even a script written. Let alone ready to be made. Then it was revealed that the talent was negotiating but Chris Pine had signed on.
Then it was Pine was looking through scripts, but the film still didn’t have a director or a writer. Then they got a director in Matt Shakman, then he left due to the lack of a finished script (errr…to work on Marvel’s Fantastic Four). Then we found out that Star Trek 4’s Karl Urban was filming The Boys in another country at the same time Paramount was looking to begin filming.
Then it all fell apart and the project was shelved once again when no one could agree on a script.
And none of this even covers anything before the first quarter of 2022. The rumors of a dreaded Quentin Tarantino version were thrown about, as well as a version that Madame Web director, S.J. Clarkson, was involved in at a time.