After establishing itself as a
television sci-fi staple in the 1960s, “Star Trek” TV series found a new lease
on life following its cancellation as several films produced from 1979 all
through to 1991, a process repeated with its follow-up show “The Next
Generation.” With the petering out of the franchise on both big and small
screens however, Paramount Pictures produced a film reboot of the original TV
series setting in 2009, starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto among others
under the direction of J.J. Abrams. The reimagined “Star Trek” movie was
followed by two sequels with a third under development, with the primary cast
returning under a new director.
The Hollywood Reporter tells us that “Star Trek 4,” the anticipated
follow-up to 2016’s “Star Trek Beyond,” is now further along in its pre-production
preparations. The good news, shared this Tuesday, November 19, is that a
director/writer has been attached to the project in Noah Hawley, who has
directed series on FX such as “Fargo” and more recently “Legion.” His cinematic
directorial debut was this year’s “Lucy in the Sky” starring Natalie Portman
for Fox Searchlight Pictures. Even better, the “Kelvin timeline” main cast and
bridge crew of the USS Enterprise has
been confirmed too.
Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto
will again journey where no man has gone before alongside Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban
and Simon Pegg for their fourth “Star Trek” film together. It is a sobering
reunion however, seeing as they are missing one member in Anton Yelchin, who
played Ensign Pavel Chekov the navigator. Yelchin had died in an accident a
month before the 2016 premiere of “Beyond,” which was thus dedicated to him and
original Spock actor Leonard Nimoy, who himself passed away one year earlier.
Prior to Hawley’s selection,
Paramount had its eye on S.J. Clarkson for “Star Trek 4,” which would have made
her the first female director for a “Trek” movie. An original pitch for the
fourth movie had involved a time-travelling plot that would reunite Pine’s
character of Captain James T. Kirk with his father George, portrayed in 2009 by
Chris Hemsworth. Unfortunately the two actors had a falling out over deals for
starring in the film, causing the original idea to be dropped last year. With
Hawley on board, he would bring in his production shingle 26 Keys to work with the
Bad Robot banner of J.J. Abrams, who was at the helm of the 2009 reboot and its
immediate sequel “Star Trek into Darkness” (2013).
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