After years of an unclear future, it seemed as though “Star Trek” finally found a path back to the big screen as “Spider-Man: Homecoming” writers and “Game Night” and “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” filmmakers Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley boarded the film.
At the time, it was said the new film was to be a “completely new take in the Star Trek universe and is not connected to any previous or current television series, movie, or prior movie development projects.”
In July, at Comic-Con, the pair teased the story will take place further into the future than previously seen on the big screen. This week, while promoting their new Apple TV film “Mayday,” the pair have revealed a bit more about their “Star Trek” plans.
First up, speaking with Inverse, Goldstein says the project’s main aim is to bring in new audiences to the franchise:
“I mean, look, we don’t want to rely on fandom. We don’t want to just hope that there are enough fans of the original [TOS] or The Next Generation or whatever who will turn out for this. We want to just make a great movie that lives in the world that people are familiar with — some people are familiar with — and that others will discover. And then, with good fortune, we launch a new franchise into existence.”
Then, speaking with The Playlist’s The Discourse podcast, they offered a better glimpse of what it will be about and end up comparing it to two famous Denzel Washington features:
Goldstein: “We’re less focused on, like, what continuity we’re in, which timeline. It’s more about how do we bring this franchise to audiences that don’t necessarily consider themselves Trekkies? What can we do that hasn’t been done before?
Our approach is to really look at it from a question of, what is this institution of Starfleet that’s at the heart of ‘Star Trek’? And what would happen if all is not well in that institution? The movie that we talk about as the comp is ‘Training Day.’”
Daley: “And ‘Crimson Tide’. Those are the two that we sort of used as our spiritual benchmarks.”
Daley and Goldstein will write, direct, and produce the new film which will be unconnected to the Chris Pine-led films. No cast or dates are yet set.
