Star Trek has been doing fairly effectively on TV of late however it’s time to beam again to the massive display. Whereas a fourth Star Trek movie on the Kelvin timeline continues to be within the works, now a brand new undertaking has been revealed too.
Toby Haynes, who helmed episodes of Andor, will direct the movie from a script by Seth Grahame-Smith (It, Lego Batman). J.J. Abrams will as soon as once more produce, which is smart for the reason that movie is set a long time earlier than the occasions of his 2009 Star Trek movie.
Deadline broke the information, and whereas there aren’t any specifics on what the movie will entail, it’s described as an origin story. We already noticed the origins of all the principle characters in Abrams’ unique, so we’re making the educated guess that Starfleet can be entrance and middle.
The movie comes at a time when Star Trek is flourishing on TV with followers loving reveals like Unusual New Worlds, Picard, and Decrease Decks. Nonetheless, these reveals are all on the Star Trek Prime timeline. This film, like 2009’s Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Past, is on an alternate Kelvin timeline. A timeline that was created when the Romulan Nero was despatched again in time accidentally in the course of the explosion of a Supernova that destroyed the Romulan homeworld.
And, as talked about, a fourth movie on that timeline—with these unique solid members, corresponding to Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Saldana–is nonetheless within the works. However, as has been confirmed on TV over the previous few years, followers can deal with a couple of Trek, and this origin story appears to be the later iteration.
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