Just where the “Star Trek” franchise will go from here isn’t clear.
Recently, it was reported that with the Paramount and Skydance merger, there are ambitions to do something with the property. Just what isn’t clear beyond a desire to have the film and TV elements better integrated.
One of the biggest questions is whether the property will get a full-on reboot, or whether Paramount and Bad Robot plan to close out the ‘Kelvin Timeline’ movies, the ones with Chris Pine as Captain Kirk, by doing a fourth film.
Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in those films, has revealed to Collider that he’s keen to return to the role and the merger is likely making that possibility a stronger one:
“I would absolutely love to do another Star Trek movie. I don’t understand why we haven’t done one yet, but hopefully now that the Skydance and Paramount merger is moving forward, Skydance was the financier of all the Star Trek movies that we’ve done so far, and have been great partners in those films, and I would love to revisit it. I think all of us would.
It’s been 10 years since we made the last movie, and nine years since it came out, and I do think that it would be a really wonderful way to close that chapter of the story and the characters that we’ve all come to love and come to enjoy inhabiting as much as we have. I think it would be really wonderful. I actually just emailed J.J. this week to say, ‘Hey, this would be really exciting.’ I think fans would be really open to it and really welcome a final movie.”
Paramount previously went as far as hiring “The Flight Attendant” series creator Steve Yockey as a new writer for the film back in early 2024, but how the merger has impacted that is unclear.
The comments come as “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has just released its third season finale with a fourth and fifth on the way.
