As part of its three-hour investor presentation today, the newly named Paramount company revealed some big plans for movies coming up for Paramount Pictures.
First up, the biggest news is a fourth film in the ‘Kelvin timeline’ “Star Trek” era is a go with Matt Shakman directing and J.J. Abrams producing. Shakman is overseeing a script written by Josh Friedman (“Snowpiercer”) and Cameron Squires (“WandaVision”).
Discussions are now underway with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Saldana among other cast members to reprise their roles and production aims to begin later this year – no word as to when the film might release.
Next, Paramount confirmed a third “Sonic the Hedgehog” film is already in development – the announcement coming less than two months before the release of the second film on April 8th.
Then it was confirmed that the already shot “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” is debuting in cinemas as the first of three new installments in the franchise – meaning a total of at least nine “Transformers” films are expected to be made (“Bumblebee” was #6).
Continuing on, John Krasinski revealed that the third main entry in the “A Quiet Place” franchise is now in development and set to debut in 2025. It’s not clear what Krasinski’s involvement with the project will be outside of producing, but this project is separate from the previously announced spinoff film which is already slated for late 2023.
Next, Paramount+ has announced that it is bringing three all-new direct-to-streaming movies to the service based on characters in the SpongeBob SquarePants universe starting in 2023. In addition a fourth, as-yet-untitled “SpongeBob” film is currently being developed by Nickelodeon Animation for release in cinemas.
Finally, it was confirmed that starting in 2024, all Paramount movies will stream directly on the Paramount+ streaming service after their theatrical run is through. How large the gap will be between theatrical and streaming releases wasn’t made clear.
Source: Paramount
