{"id":145325,"date":"2025-11-17T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145325\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:42:07","slug":"all-the-star-trek-movies-paramount-has-said-its-trying-to-make-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145325\/","title":{"rendered":"All the ‘Star Trek’ Movies Paramount Has Said It’s Trying to Make Lately"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cA new\u00a0Star Trek movie is coming!\u201d<\/p>\n

Here at io9 we\u2019ve been telling you that quite a bit over the last few years\u2014most recently last week<\/a>, with the news that\u00a0D&D: Honor Among Thieves<\/a> tag team Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley were turning their focus where, it turns out, quite a few film producers have gone before. Although perhaps\u00a0Star Trek\u2018s other friend in the\u00a0\u2018Star franchise\u2019 genre has been in the spotlight<\/a> the past few years for its inability to get a movie onto the big screen (that fortune will finally change<\/a> next year), Trek has had an even longer break from the silver screen, with the gap between\u00a0Star Trek Beyond and whatever\u2019s next now longer\u2014and only increasing\u2014than the gap between Nemesis and the 2009 J.J. Abrams reboot.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not been for a lack of trying, though. Over the years, even as\u00a0Star Trek has flourished in its streaming TV renaissance,\u00a0Paramount has attempted to get multiple Trek film projects off the ground, with some stuck in uncertain limbo and others failing to ever get out of spacedock. Here\u2019s the rundown of what was, and still might be, in the works.<\/p>\n

Star Trek 4 (2015, Dead As of 2025) <\/p>\n

Oh, poor\u00a0Star Trek 4. What a long history<\/a> this had\u2014multiple directors, multiple deaths, and multiple times that other projects on this list initially potentially started out as attempts to get it made, only to turn into their own thing that inevitably died their own deaths.<\/p>\n

The chances of a fourth entry in the \u201cKelvin Timeline\u201d series seem to be over for good now, with last month\u2019s news<\/a> from Paramount (in a post-Skydance-takeover world) that the studio was moving on from the idea of reuniting the rebooted\u00a0Enterprise cast for another adventure. They say, \u201cNever say never,\u201d but you should probably say it about this one.<\/p>\n

Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Star Trek Film (2017, Dead As of 2019) \"Star\u00a9 Paramount <\/p>\n

The first of several projects on this list that seemed like they were maybe\u00a0Star Trek 4 before turning out not to be\u00a0Star Trek 4, Quentin Tarantino\u2019s\u00a0Trek film<\/a> was meant to be, at one time, one of the director\u2019s final films before his retirement.<\/p>\n

Pitched as an R-Rated take on the franchise, Tarantino eventually revealed that the project never really left early phases, with the director wanting to move on<\/a> rather than make it his potential final directorial project. Although initially rumored to be unconnected from the \u201cKelvin\u201d films, in 2021 screenwriter Mark L. Smith revealed that the project would\u2019ve focused on Chris Pine\u2019s Captain Kirk, sending him back to 1930s America<\/a> in a mobster story inspired by the classic Trek episode \u201cA Piece of the Action\u201d.<\/p>\n

Noah Hawley\u2019s Star Trek Film (2019, Dead As of 2025) <\/p>\n

Another \u201cStar Trek 4 But Not\u201d situation, Hawley was initially pegged as the latest director attached<\/a> to\u00a0Star Trek 4 before he himself started coming out and distancing the movie from\u00a0Star Trek 4, describing his movie as a \u201cnew beginning.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic put Hawley\u2019s film on hold indefinitely before eventually killing it altogether. Which is probably for the best, because Hawley\u2019s idea apparently focused on a virus that wiped out most of the known universe<\/a>. Oh, and androids, at some point<\/a>? Wonder how much of that eventually made its way into\u00a0Alien: Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kalinda Vazquez\u2019s Star Trek\u00a0Film (2021, Fate Unknown) \"Star\u00a9 Paramount <\/p>\n

This may be the\u00a0Star Trek film on this list we know the least about.\u00a0Discovery writer Vazquez was tapped to write a new\u00a0Star Trek film\u2014specifically not\u00a0Star Trek 4\u2014in March 2021<\/a>. We\u2019ve heard absolutely nothing since.<\/p>\n

Whatever\u00a0Star Trek Film Paramount Was Bold Enough to Announce for June 9, 2023 (2021, Dead Some Time Before June 9, 2023) <\/p>\n

Scratch that:\u00a0this is the\u00a0Star Trek film on this list we know the least about. A month after the revelation about Vazquez\u2019s film, Paramount dated an untitled\u00a0Star Trek film for June 9, 2023<\/a>, that was specifically\u00a0not Vazquez\u2019s film, and was simply a J.J. Abrams-produced project.<\/p>\n

June 9, 2023 came and went<\/a> without a\u00a0Star Trek film.<\/p>\n

Patrick Stewart\u2019s\u00a0Star Trek Film (2024, Fate Unknown) \"Star\u00a9 Paramount <\/p>\n

Not content with a whole three-season TV show<\/a> that had just wrapped up Jean-Luc Picard\u2019s story seemingly for good, in early 2024 Patrick Stewart announced<\/a> that a new\u00a0Star Trek film that would\u2019ve continued the beloved\u00a0Next Generation captain\u2019s journey was in the works. It remains unknown if this film was intended for the big screen or was a planned streaming exclusive akin to this year\u2019s (unfortunately incredibly bad<\/a>) Michelle Yeoh vehicle\u00a0Section 31, or if, frankly, it\u2019s happening at all.<\/p>\n

Seth Grahame-Smith and Toby Haynes\u2019\u00a0Star Trek Film (2024, Fate Unknown) <\/p>\n

Days after Stewart\u2019s revelation<\/a>, Paramount announced that it had tasked writer Seth Grahame-Smith and director Toby Haynes with developing yet another new Star Trek film, this one apparently based around the early days of Starfleet\u2019s founding.<\/p>\n

Little has been revealed since, other than that Simon Kinberg may end up producing<\/a> and\u00a0potentially shepherding more Star Trek films\u2026 all of this was before Paramount\u2019s acquisition by Skydance<\/a>, however, so it\u2019s hard to say if that\u2019s still the case.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley\u2019s\u00a0Star Trek\u00a0Film (2025, Fate Unknown) \"Star\u00a9 Paramount <\/p>\n

And that brings us to our latest\u00a0Star Trek project, as of last week! Again, like so many of the films that came before it, we know barely anything about this film: beyond Goldstein and Daley\u2019s involvement, the only concrete information so far is that (again, like a lot of films on this list), the project is meant to stand alone, separate from any prior Trek characters or series.<\/p>\n

The only reason this one feels more concrete than anything that\u2019s come before it is because it\u2019s the first wholly new\u00a0Star Trek project announced under Paramount\u2019s new ownership. As the rest of this list shows, though, nothing is ever certain until we\u2019ve beamed our butts into movie theater seats to actually watch it.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA new\u00a0Star Trek movie is coming!\u201d Here at io9 we\u2019ve been telling you that quite a bit over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270,3282,51828],"class_list":{"0":"post-145325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-paramount","13":"tag-star-trek"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}