Since J.J. Abrams‘ “Star Trek” reboot trilogy ended with “Star Trek Beyond” five years ago, Paramount has been trying to re-launch the franchise and keep the Enterprise afloat, with everyone from Quentin Tarantino to Noah Hawley and even David Cronenberg reportedly taking a shot at the popular sci-fi franchise. While everyone was looking at the big screen for answers, it seems the next voyage of the Starship Enterprise will come to us from one of the writers of the “Star Trek: Discovery” TV series.
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Deadline reports that Kalinda Vazquez, a writer on “Star Trek: Discovery” who is actually named after a character from an episode of “Star Trek: The Original Series,” has been tapped to write the screenplay to a new “Star Trek” film for Paramount and Bad Robot, under a “blind deal for an original movie that she hatched.”
Details are basically nil at the moment. Other than Abrams’ involvement via his Bad Robot production company, it is unclear if he will return to the director’s chair to helm this new film after launching the reboot trilogy back in 2009. Based on Deadline‘s statement that this will be “an original movie,” it is safe to assume that the film will likely take place in a separate timeline from the reboot trilogy’s “Kelvin timeline,” where Chris Pine plays Kirk. Maybe this will end up being a feature spin-off of “Star Trek: Discovery?” Could be. The franchise is certainly no stranger to making big-screen spin-offs of TV shows, after all. But it could simply be a separate story set in the larger universe.
So what does this mean for the many “Star Trek” movies reportedly in development? We don’t know yet. It could very well be that Paramount is still just testing the waters and trying out different avenues before deciding to move forward with one story over the other, or maybe we’ll get yet another movie multiverse and they will all crossover in an epic conflict. A “Star War” if you may.
