While as recently August this year, rumour was that JJ Abrams was set to produce two new Star Trek projects set in the Kelvin Timeline (the alternate Star Trek timeline which debuted with Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek), one with Chris Pine and the rest of the crew returning and an all-new crew adventure from Andor’s Toby Haynes.
Now, however, it’s a very different story, indeed.
Word is that with Skydance now taking over Paramount Pictures, the plan is to continue Star Trek but to return to the original series’ timeline, leaving the Kelvin Timeline to fade to obscurity, meaning the crew of Chris Pine (Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Karl Urban (McCoy), Zoe Saldana (Uhura), Simon Pegg (Scotty), John Cho (Sulu), and the late Anton Yelchin (Chekov) have had their last voyage and will not be boldly going any further.
As per a new report from Variety: The hope is to have a fresh “Star Trek” movie, though the studio has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot.
One of the maddest things to almost happen to Star Trek in recent years was a project from the one and only Quentin Tarantino, which star Simon Pegg recently called “batsh*t crazy”.
Pegg said the project was exactly what you think a Tarantino Star Trek would be, adding: “I think it would have been such an incredible sort of curio to see ‘Star Trek’ through his lens. I don’t know how it would have gone over with the fans, but it certainly would have been an interesting thing.”
Honestly, with the fairly lackluster third movie, Star Trek Beyond, being the last outing of the Kelvin crew in 2016, it was starting to look very unlikely we’d see the admittedly brilliant cast – especially Pine, Quinto and Urban as Kirk, Spock and Bones – again. And now it seems to be confirmed.
Paramount’s Trek output over the last few years has been pretty dire, so honestly, seeing Star Trek returning to form is something I think a lot of fans have been hoping for and maybe this will finally see that happen.
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So, are you excited for a new Star Trek direction under Skydance? Or were you a fan of what Paramount were doing in the last few years? More importantly, were you a fan of the three Kelvin Timeline movies? I know you have thoughts on all of this and I wanna hear ’em.
Simon Pegg, Scotty in the Kelvin Timeline Star Trek movies, talks about Quentin Tarantino’s almost-happened Trek movie:
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