Paramount Announces STAR TREK Origin Story in Development
By Movieguide® Contributor
Paramount announced that a new STAR TREK origin story is in the works.
This comes in addition to the anticipated STAR TREK 4 movie.
“The studio has tapped Toby Haynes to direct a new film that expands on the STAR TREK universe, with Seth Grahame-Smith penning the script. J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is producing,” Deadline announced.
“Sources tell Deadline that while plot details are being kept under wraps, the project is an origin story that takes place decades before the 2009 STAR TREK film that rebooted the franchise. Insiders add that the final chapter in that main series, STAR TREK 4, remains in active development,” Deadline reported.
Entertainment Weekly noted that Haynes previously directed a STAR TREK-like episode of BLACK MIRROR. He also directed the series ANDOR and SHERLOCK and some episodes of DOCTOR WHO.
Seth Grahame-Smith authored “the books ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ and ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.’ Grahame-Smith also wrote the screenplays for the film adaptation of ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, as well as Tim Burton’s DARK SHADOWS and co-wrote THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE,” Slash Film reported.
Movieguide® advises caution for older children, teens and adults for the first 2009 STAR TREK movie with Chris Pine. Movieguide® advises extreme caution for the two consecutive movies for older teenagers and adults.
Movieguide® said about the third installment, STAR TREK BEYOND:
STAR TREK BEYOND finds Captain Kirk thinking about leaving behind the Starship Enterprise for good. His crew’s pleasant visit to a gigantic space station with multiple cityscapes is cut short. A female alien appears, claiming her spaceship has crashed on a nearby oxygen planet. Kirk takes the Enterprise there, but it’s a trap. An alien named Krall has a swarm of small indestructible spaceships that can tear into any other spaceship. He wants a mysterious alien artifact on the Enterprise that’s part of a powerful weapon that can destroy a Federation outpost full of people, like the space station.
STAR TREK BEYOND is a thrilling space adventure with a cohesive plot and story structure. It often plays like an entertaining homage to other space epics, including other STAR TREK movies. Even better, it has a solid moral, redemptive worldview stressing hope, unity, self-sacrifice, and defending life against spiteful, selfish violence and revenge. That said, the staging is sometimes uninvolving. Also, STAR TREK BEYOND has too much gratuitous foul language, some scary violence and brief politically correct content. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.
