Chris Pine just locked in his next project, and it is not Star Trek 4, with him back aboard the Enterprise as the heroic Captain James T. Kirk. According to the Hollywood trade paper Variety, the actor will star in and produce a film called Run the Night.
Variety states that Run the Night is an action tale to be directed by veteran second unit director and stunt coordinator Robert Alonzo. His many credits include Deadpool and The Batman, as well as Star Trek (2009). He worked on the film as second unit stunt coordinator and fight choreographer.
“Run the Night follows a banker, accused of betraying the Penose (the Dutch mob), who is dumped naked in the heart of Amsterdam with a $10 million bounty on his head,” Variety revealed. “Hunted by the city’s most violent gangs, he must fight his way across the city by dawn to save the lives of his wife and child — a mission that reveals he was never just the money guy.”
The news about Pine's involvement with Run the Night may disappoint Star Trek fans who’ve been waiting nearly a decade for a new Kelvin timeline Star Trek movie. Star Trek Beyond opened in the summer of 2016. With each passing day, and with the current cast busy with movies, series, stage shows, winning Oscars, their families, and multiple other enterprises personal and professional, reuniting the actors may prove to be a mission impossible. If another Star Trek feature with the Kelvin cast does happen, there will still be the matter of addressing the absence of Anton Yelchin, who played Chekov. He died in a tragic accident just weeks before Beyond’s release.
Pine -- who was most recently seen in Poolman (which he also directed) and heard in the animated film Wish -- will next turn up in Nowhere Fast, a crime thriller from writer and director Noah Hawley, whose credits include Bones, Fargo, Legion and the upcoming Alien: Earth. Star Trek fans will recall that Hawley, in 2019, was recruited to develop a Star Trek film with a different cast from those in the J.J. Abrams-produced installments. Hawley even completed a script, but the project ultimately fell apart.