Today, Paramount Pictures held their annual presentation at the CinemaCon trade show in Las Vegas, the world’s biggest gathering for the motion picture industry. The event emphasized imminent releases, but Star Trek did get a nod.
Star Trek movie still a thing
Paramount’s time on stage in Las Vegas was kicked off by new Paramount corporate CEO David Ellison, who told the crowd “I came here today for a couple of reasons. One, because I love cinema and I love film. I always have and I always will.” He reaffirmed the company’s aggressive goal to release 30 feature films each year once the merger with Warner Bros. is finalized. Ellison was followed up with Paramount Pictures co-chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein who teased what the studio has planned, announcing the development of films from several franchises, including Star Trek.
New entries for several other Paramount franchises are also getting new entries, including G.I. Joe, Transformers, and World War Z; the official announcement that Tom Cruise is returning for Top Gun 3 was likely the biggest news from the event. However, there were no details provided on the Star Trek feature film, whereas other films in development did get some additional info, such as the first Call of Duty movie getting a summer 2028 release date.
CALL OF DUTY, More STAR TREK, and More TRANSFORMERS coming soon – Paramount leaders say at #CinemaCon presentation pic.twitter.com/338VHmicEr
— Deadline (@DEADLINE) April 16, 2026
The one Star Trek film that was previously reported to be in development was a Star Trek film from the Spider-Man: Homecoming and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves team of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, announced last November. Their Trek feature film is reportedly a “new take on the Star Trek universe and not connected to any previous or current television series, movie or prior movie development projects.”
While it was disappointing that we didn’t get any more details on the Star Trek feature film, it’s better than what happened at last year’s CinemaCon, where Paramount didn’t even mention Star Trek, even though two Star Trek films (Star Trek 4 sequel to Beyond) and the “franchise origin movie” from Toby Haynes were supposedly in development at that time. Both of those projects were officially shelved last fall, shortly after Skydance took over Paramount.
It’s been almost ten years since the release of the last film in the franchise, Star Trek Beyond. Paramount spent a decade developing several attempts at both a direct sequel as well as some other takes on Trek, which included original films developed by Noah Hawley and Quentin Tarantino. While some of those projects made it as far as very early pre-production, the studio never actually got anything greenlit to go into production.
Chris Pine as Kirk with Anton Yelchin as Chekov and John Cho as Sulu in Star Trek Beyond
Goldstein and Daley are currently working on the Skydance/Apple war movie Mayday starring Ryan Reynolds, which has a September 4 release date. Perhaps they will be able to pivot to focus on Star Trek when their work on that film wraps up. With Star Trek only getting a brief mention at CinemaCon, it’s looking less likely the franchise will be back on the big screen by 2028. But there’s always 2029.
As always, TrekMovie will keep an eye out for any news regarding the future of Star Trek.
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