Last week news broke in the Hollywood trades that writer/producer/director Simon Kinberg – known for several films in the X-Men franchise – had been tapped by Disney/Lucasfilm to write and produce a new Star Wars trilogy of movies. The Trek connection is that earlier this year Kinberg was attached to Paramount’s next Star Trek feature film, which still is the case according to the latest reports.
Origin movie “on its way”
As we have been reporting, the next Star Trek movie Paramount is planning is the “Untitled Star Trek Origin Movie,” which they announced as part of the 2026 slate earlier this year. Toby Haynes is directing, with Seth Grahame-Smith as screenwriter. Kinberg is attached to produce along with J.J. Abrams, but apparently the Star Wars news isn’t going to be a factor. According to the reliable Puck newsletter, Kinberg’s Star Wars obligations would “need to wait” for the Star Trek project.
Puck reports on the status of the “Star Trek Origin” movie:
According to two sources, the new Trek script, by Seth Grahame-Smith, is done and on its way toward a green light, possibly by the end of the year, for a shoot in the first half of 2025. Toby Haynes (Andor) is directing the origin story, set well before the U.S.S. Enterprise era.
Director Toby Haynes is a Trek fan who directed Black Mirror’s “USS Callister” (Netflix)
Of course we have been down this road before, with several starts and stops to bring Trek back to the big screen for almost a decade now. But Paramount did put the origin movie project on their upcoming lineup and if production can start in early 2025, they could get a movie into theaters by 2026, just in time for the 60th anniversary. It has previously been reported the origin movie will have a new cast for “a prequel focusing on humanity’s early contact with aliens and the formation of the Federation,” and it will be set mostly on Earth. In May Variety reported, “the film is intended as an origin story for the main timeline of the ‘Star Trek’ franchise (rather than the alternate Kelvin timeline, started with 2009’s “Star Trek”).”
The Trek and Wars franchises have come into conflict over creatives before, notably when J.J. Abrams signed on to write, produce and direct Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2013, while he was in post-production on his second Trek feature, Star Trek Into Darkness. That resulted in Paramount getting compensation from Disney for poaching their creative lead. However, according to Puck, Kinberg gave Paramount advanced notice of his new deal with Disney, with the Star Wars project reportedly “far, far away from happening.”
Kinberg has been reported to also be set to “shepherd” the Star Trek film franchise, with the origin movie just the start of the franchise’s return to the big screen. It’s unclear how he can juggle doing that along with developing a Star Wars trilogy of films at the same time. And it isn’t as if Kinberg has a lot of free time. He is coming off executive producing Deadpool & Wolverine, and he is attached to several upcoming projects as a producer including reboots of Logan’s Run and The Running Man. However, it’s worth noting that the Disney/Lucasfilm has been running through creatives for potential Star Wars movies faster than Paramount has for Trek, so Kinberg could find himself with more availability if his attempt becomes the latest in a long line of aborted projects in that galaxy far, far away.
BTW: Star Trek 4 is still a thing
The origin movie is set to be the next Star Trek feature, but Paramount has also confirmed development on one final film for the Kelvin Universe crew, led by Chris Pine as James T. Kirk. The latest update came in March when writer Steve Yockey was hired to take the latest crack at a script. Since then there have been a few comments from members of the cast (including Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Saldana) who remain committed to reunite one last time, but also curious as to how the film will deal with the time gap since their last outing in 2016’s Star Trek Beyond.
Star Trek Beyond cast at UK Premiere, July 12, 2016 in London, England (Paramount Pictures)
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Hopefully they’ll come up with something really worthwhile considering the anniversary & that title!
It’s title isn’t going to be “Star Trek: Origin”, that’s just a descriptor. My guess is the outlets referring to it as an “origin story” is a gross oversimplification of someone’s specific idea that fans have latched onto a bit too hard.
Calling any project a “origin” of a franchise is terribly misleading. Technically “First Contact” is that origin story. You could say Enterprise’s 4 seasons are its origin story. You could say that Strange New Worlds is an origin for the original series.
More like, this is just another prequel that fills in a gap early in the Trek timeline with a new story.
That was my thoughts exactly.
OK I am optimistic. IMO Trek has been a disaster since Rick Berman. The TV shows are a write-off, the Kelvin movies had potential but it never materialised. I will watch a 4th Kelvin movie but that experiment has failed. They could have been the greatest Trek movies ever with almost 60 years worth of inspiration to draw from, but they dumbed Trek down and Star Trek is not Star Trek when it is DUMBED DOWN. I will give this movie a chance, it cannot be any worse than what we have had post 2005.
Live Long & Prosper!
Its been terribly mis-managed since ST09, which was a breakout hit and one of the best selling blu rays of all time. They never capitalised on that.
Disc led to SNW, we got LDs and ‘picard’ finally worked out with its final season.
so not all bad news since berman.
I’d argue there’s been more good than bad since 2009, even just going by popular consensus, rather than just someone’s specific opinion:
Trek 09 – Good
STID – Not Good
Beyond – Good
Discovery – Not Good
Picard S1/2 – Not Good
Lower Decks – Good
SNW – Good
Short Treks – Good
Star Trek Prodigy – Good
Picard S3 – Good
The problem as I see it is that even the consensus “not good” Trek has been absolutely HATED by a very vocal group that makes it seem like everything is bad.
Yeah I agree, overall I think there has easily been more good Trek than bad even if I’m mostly so-so on the Kelvin movies and have major issues with Discovery and Picard (although I liked both of their final seasons); but the rest I have mostly loved. But I think while most of it has been good. it still hasn’t been great the way classic Star Trek can be. There are quality episodes in all the new shows but very few at the level of the best in what we got in the classic shows or Berman era. My opinion only of course.
But I also will agree that some of the hate over NuTrek has gone overboard in many places. I actually don’t feel that here, sure some really hate it but it’s pretty balanced on these boards and you get a wide range of opinions on all of it. But the more ‘toxic’ places on the web, especially YouTube it gets too much to the point anything Kurtzman Trek related=garbage. Again, it’s their opinion to have but it’s not exactly fun talking to those people about it either and why I love TM so much.
I think one of the biggest reason we haven’t gotten some more of those amazing ‘classic Trek’ episodes is simply because of how TV is made now, with super short seasons and heavy serialization. Most of Trek’s truly standout eps have been completely standalone with little connection to any ongoing story arc (I’m thinking TOS’s The Galileo Seven, TNG’s Inner Light, DS9’s Visitor, VOY’s Blink of an Eye, and ENT’s Cogenitor – just to name a few); and there just isn’t time for those one off eps anymore.
SNW and LD obviously have a far more episodic approach than other modern Trek, and thus have been able to have some of the more classic Trek eps; but there’s still only 10 eps in a season, so there just isn’t enough eps to get a lot of those classic eps.
Yeah you’re right and I 100% agree with this. Even though Discovery is still my least favorite show, the episodes I can say I loved have felt more standalone like Magic Makes the Sanest Man Go Mad, Lethe, New Eden, If Memory Serves, Face the Strange and so on. But when it’s only 2-3 episodes like that a season it’s not exactly drawing you to go back to the show over and over again.
And you can’t just come up with a great story and have that be the focus like The Inner Light or Timeless unless it’s part of the bigger story in some way.
And I do think that’s why LDS and SNW are more popular but as you said when you only have 10 episodes a season vs 25 then people expect every episode to be great and we know that’s not really the case although those shows have consistently good episodes IMO. But very few I consider amazing.
Same time ithough you do shuffle through much less subpar ones at least.
But yeah I agree I think the classic shows just have the room in both amount of episodes and standalone content to do really compelling and unique stories. It now makes me wonder if SFA will be more standalone like LDS and SNW or serialized. For some reason I feel it will be the latter.
Looking back how good was ’90s Trek overall, though? TNG’s first two years were often unwatchable. DS9 was stronger, but still not consistently great until Season 3. Voyager has a strong rewatchability factor, but was really only great in spurts, with most of its run being terribly average, and a good portion being legitimately bad.
Enterprise was a ton of squandered potential, and while I think its first two seasons are underrated, it’s not a very good show in a vacuum.
End of the day, ’90s Trek was probably on par with modern Trek in terms of good/bad ratio, but we look back at some of the painfully mediocre stuff — and even some of the bad stuff — with rose colored glasses thanks to nostalgia.
Therefore, I wonder how our collective consensus on the “bad” Trek like DSC or even PIC 1/2 may soften over time.
For me they are very good considering DS9, TNG and VOY are my favorite shows in that order. Yeah TNG first two seasons was bad, but it was also the first Trek spin off and Roddenberry was a bit of a nut lol. After that though the show just got stronger and stronger. I didn’t love the first two seasons of DS9 either but the quality of the show was there from day one. But it was my least favorite for years until the fourth season and then it eventually became my most favorite. I definitely agree with you about VOY but oddly it was the first show since TOS whose first season I loved out of the gate. I was so disappointed with ENT first season I stopped watching it completely after that season and didn’t go back to it literally until 2013. Being a prequel just did nothing for me at the time. But when I went back and gave it a real chance I grew to really enjoy it and every season was stronger than the last. So I love the show today but that took a long while lol.
So yeah, I don’t think any of the shows were perfect either but for me, they all got better and better as they went. But I will say the same thing about some of the current shows. And I also can say LDS, SNW and PRO I loved out of the gate which wasn’t the case for most of the classic shows minus TOS and VOY. Prodigy is actually my favorite in the modern era and just been superb for both of its seasons IMO. I can count the episodes I haven’t liked on one hand. It’s funny I didn’t mention it at all for some reason but I think it’s just as good as the classic shows and that’s the show made for 8 year olds. I also thought Picard season 3 was great as well and could also compete with a lot of the classic shows.
And of course you’re right, in a few years (or decades lol) shows like DIS and PIC first two seasons could be re-evaluated and grow in popularity by a large margin. In fact I been saying that about DIS literally since 2017 because I figure it will follow the same path like all the old shows and age well. And yeah nostalgia will probably take hold as it has classic Trek. Don’t know if that will happen obviously but I assume it has a good chance of being the case.
But end of the day I still think the classic shows are much stronger than the current shows for all the reasons that were cited. It’s not even close if I’m being honest. As said, the modern shows have quality episodes but there are only a handful so far I would consider great episodes. But others may have a more positive view of the new shows than me.
I pretty much totally agree with this list except Short Treks, which I found pretty bad and SNW, which is a mixed bag due to the overabundances of comedic elements. Feels more like parody akin to Galaxy Quest etc.
This is something I completely agree with. Fans I think are in denial about this.
Yup. 85% fact. Although lower decks was great until s05 and I liked discovery s01 & 2… Everything else has been pool.
I like the IDEA of a new film in 2026, of course, but until shooting actually begins, I refuse to let myself get excited. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 63 times, shame on me.
That being said… I need to ask around and see if I can get some work on this project. :)
A Star Trek origin movie set on Earth. They made that in 1996, it was called “Star Trek: First Contact” and it was awesome.
{sigh}
I took a look at it via streaming last night and boy, the live-action was really dark, as in dingy, moreso than my blu-ray. However, the colors and contrast on the spaceship shots were tremendous (though the opening pullback was also too dark to see much detail.) Color me confused (esp since it wasn’t listed as 4k, but seems to show the typical 4k-too-dark flaw, which drives me crazy with RED OCTOBER — I actually only watch the blu-ray because the 4K is just so mushy dark, and that combined with the in-frame lights blowing out actually gives me a headache.)
Never been much of a fan of FC, too many action movie tropes draped over the characters, plus I find the score to be a grind (rarity for me with JG), ranging from ponderously grim (most of the time) to obnoxious graduation day music (main theme.) Kinda wish they’d just done the proposed IMAX short instead and made it into a VFXfest (am not a big TNG fan either, obviously.)
I too always felt that FC was overrated. It’s not bad, but given the early raves I distinctly remember how let down I felt after it was over.
Interesting. I saw it on the cinema in 1996 and It is one hell of an enjoyable movie but there are parts I do not like, the holodeck scene & the fight on the deflector dish are just awful action pieces ripped out of a die-hard movie or something and even back in 96 I was questioning why are they bringing the borg back again(!). BUT there is that message that humans can make the future better running all though it. Star Trek Generations was so awful, easily the worst Trek movie of them all and FC was such a better movie How Braga & Moore went from ALL GOOD THINGS, to GENERATIONS is perplexing, but they saved themselves with FIRST CONTACT.
Best TNG movie hands-down but the TNG movies were very mixed.
The opening title by Jerry Goldsmith is just beautiful, most beautiful composition in all of Star Trek.
I agree to a point it is overrated, but it is great Star Trek, likely kept TNG on the big screen for another 5 years after the abysmal Generations. It is the best non-TOS Star Trek movie and we are coming up to it being the best Trek movie made in the last 30 years.
Generations was awesome.
Overrated, yes. It’s NOT the best Trek movie (it might be 4th on my list behind TUC, TWOK, and TVH) but it is the best TNG movie. It is quite a fun, inventive sci-fi action movie and even though the side characters didn’t get enough screen time, they all felt consistent with their TV counterparts while also evolving them past where we’d seen them in the series (unlike Generations which was essentially “All Good Things Part II”).
It’s also got high rewatchability, unlike Generations and Insurrection (less said about NEM the better, that’s just an absolute slog to sit through).
If it’s about the formation of the Federation, that would put this movie around Archer’s time, since he’s the one that helped usher in the formation of the Federation.
However, I remember hearing that they want this movie to be engaging to people that don’t need to have nearly 60 years of lore tied into it, so it’s possible that they take it in a different direction altogether, which wouldn’t be good for an origin story.
There’s also a conflicting report elsewhere that this movie might not be around Archer’s time, but instead pre-Pike & focus in on Robert April, but that wouldn’t make sense since the Federation was ALREADY formed by then, unless they’re just going to outright ignore Enterprise.
We’ll see what it is they have in store, IF it progresses.
It sounds like it will be a prequel to Enterprise basically and probably focus on Zefram Cochrane, the Vulcans and building up Starfleet. But I would hope you’re right and it’s a post-Enterprise movie and when Archer was still around. But it does sound like it was before that.
I don’t know that the focus will be Cochrane. He may never appear at all, and the story may be more focused on the formation of STARFLEET rather than the Federation, and focus on an entirely new cast with little in the way of legacy characters.
No he may not appear but if the focus is on the early origins Starfleet then I think he could be part of it somehow since it really only existed due to his engine. And he had nothing to do with the Federation since he had already left Earth decades before the NX-01 started her journey; so he’s always been associated more with Starfleet.
But yeah they said it will focus on new characters since no old characters minus Cochrane existed in that period. And the movie could take place after he already left Earth as well. But I think since he’s the only TOS legacy character that could be around, they may have him there just to market someone to the older fans. We’ll see. But either way I’m really excited we finally have a movie with brand new characters that can grow if more films get made. I have been wanting this since the TNG films were done and give us something new entirely. It will also be the first movie that won’t have an Enterprise. These are all positives for me.
Except it can easily be argued that Zephram Cochrane inventing a FTL drive isn’t the origin of Star Trek. A defining moment, definitely. But so would also be the formation of Starfleet, a united Earth, the Federation. A disastrous first contact with the Klingons has been alluded to. Human exceptionalism has been an underlying theme of Trek as well, as is colonialism, maybe we don’t want to go there….
Exaclty what I’ve been wondering. I think the formation of Starfleet could be interesting.
Star Trek First Contact is an awesome movie. The Borg were fantastic on the big screen, we got to see an important part of Trek’s history and it had some awesome action and character scenes
The stuff with the Borg Queen I love. My top three Trek movies are wrath of khan, first contact and undiscovered country.
I have faith in Haynes, but not Kinberg.
Both have done good work in that other Starry franchise.
I’m just concerned with the idea of the movie. I thought we’d already gotten everything we needed to with regards to humans meeting aliens and all that. But I will say at least it’s more appealing than a fourth Kelvin universe movie…
I am definitely tired of prequels in general.
Yeah, being a prequel really doesn’t excite me at all. And looking at all the other boards discussing the movie, that seems to be a consensus. I don’t understand why they keep trying with more prequels but I guess they really believe in the premise.
Do you have faith — of the heart?
I’ve got faith that I’ll fart.
😆
While simultaneously hoping that it doesn’t trample over First Contact or Enterprise… I’m remaining cautiously optimistic about this, because that is such an interesting time period to me. If done well, it could be amazing, so I’ll just choose cautious optimism for now.
Paramount must really like pissing money away. We already had two origin stories: First Contact and Enterprise. WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER ONE!
I think you could do an origin story that also was set in a familiar time period of cen23 or 24, something like the very good FEDERATION novel from 30 years back. But miring it on Earth is a bad call IMO.
Technically, First Contact is an origin of how humanity managed to achieve warp travel & therefore meet an alien civilization for the first time.
Enterprise meanwhile is the early days of Earth’s exploration & eventually, the foundation of of what will become the Federation.
The biggest worry regarding this is that they want to add something into the mix, but they don’t want to have the movie to be unenjoyable to those don’t know the entire lore of the franchise’s history. I refer back to part of this quote from another article Trekmovie did earlier when reporting this:
It’s entirely possible that they may include the smaller points that people WILL need to know, such as that it was Zefram Cochrane that achieved warp travel & set the stage for first contact with the Vulcans, but other knowledge that might not be important for the movie, like what transpired in that process for people to enjoy the movie.
Agreed. But this is probably a smaller budget movie and why they are taking a chance on it. But yeah FC and Enterprise were enough origin stories.
can this be an origin story for the current universe of Disco / SNW?
Because let’s be real….that stuff ain’t prime.
It’s going to be a franchise reboot. I will be very surprised if that isn’t the plan for this film and all others that will be based on it.
It takes place in the Prime Universe.
As they pointed out in a recent Lower Decks episode, they’re all the Prime Universe to the people who live in it.
Who will he cast as Mad Vlad the villain? Wasn’t the origin of Star Trek WW3 or thereabouts?
Who is “Mad Vlad”?
Putin, I think. I’m guessing he must be the one who employs Col. Green.
Kinberg seems like a poor choice. Dude has tanked a lot of movies.
Hard pass!
An “origin” story, set mostly on Earth and covering the formation of the Federation as well as encountering the first alien races?
Would much prefer an ORIGINAL story, especially for something as big as a film released in Trek’s 60th year!
All First Contact really did was show Earth’s first warp flight. Some Vulcans show up in the last two minutes, that’s about it as far origin of the Federation goes. Enterprise was canceled before bothered to get around to Birth of the Federation, which is the story I really wanted to see (but they wasted three years on silly Temporal Cold War stuff and then had a finale that I prefer to believe never really happened.)
This movie could be the Earth-Romulan War, that would have potential.
This movie could also be about the launch of NCC-1701 under Robert April. I’d like that.
Given that Bakula attended a recent event with pretty much only active cast members of modern Star Trek, I do think maybe they’ve struck a deal with him. He didn’t like how Enterprise ended, but he loved the show. I think Bakula would jump at the chance to end things better.
Two possibilities:
Bakula returning to show us the birth of the Federation is the most stoked about Star Trek I could possibly be. This is absolutely what I want. I miss Enterprise, and I long for the story that ought to have been told before it finished airing.
Agreed fully.
THIS ÌS A DISASTER!
– 2007
Working title of the movie: “Star Trek: Believe It When You See It”
I love this title.
This does not float my boat
It’s called Enterprise. It’s a great series with a catchy song in the opening credits.
Which never bothered to actually show us the formation of the Federation. It faded to credits right before Archer’s big speech. Oh, yay!
But the two (early contact with aliens and the formation of the Federation) are different things that take place decades apart (i.e. everything from Broken Bow to Demons for the former and These Are The Voyages for the latter).
Computer, end program…..
ENT showed us quite a bit of the formation of the Federation — the Vulcan reformation, the Coalition of Planets, the alliance with Andoria — just not the culmination of it.
Your argument is like saying a historical drama about the French and Indian War featuring a young George Washington says nothing about the birth of the United States, or a historical drama about the 1905 Revolution says nothing about the birth of the USSR.
Yeah we’ll see. As stated, we have been down this transwarp conduit too many times at this point. And I won’t be convinced until there is actually a firm starting date with a cast in place. Until then, it’s just more and more talk.
And like others, another prequel just doesn’t excite me very much. But I will say the fact it will finally be all new characters (I’m guessing) is a big plus and not to rely on more TOS or TNG characters. They are actually trying to do something different. And I like to see more of the 22nd century and build that out although this could be late 21st century if the movie is about how Starfleet becomes created. It still doesn’t excite me, but whatever, I just want another movie at this point. And I just think a post-Enterprise movie would’ve been more interesting and it could’ve involved Archer/Scott Bakula.
Oh and if they can just stay away from some wber-villain looking for revenge against Starfleet, then that would already be a huge, huge win. ;)
But crossing my fingers. Maybe we will have a film for the 60th anniversary after all.
Agree, but it will have to be a very very good film.
Well, if the goal is to be in theaters for the sixtieth anniversary, that’s twenty-two months from today. Twenty months if they green light this at years end. To principal photography within six months? Unless there’s been a soft start (always a possibility), somethings really off here.
We got no cast, no sets, no costumes, no FX. What are we going to do, Spock?
We’ll do what we always do, Captain, we’ll move the release date….
Yeah good points. Unless they been doing some work as you mentioned then it’s probably not that realistic. Unless they just fast track it and work quickly to get it ready. And that’s literally what happened with Beyond.
Let’s see if we get to actual production first but it’s probably not until 2027.
They need an internal panic to make the release date, like the financial calamity that would have hit if TMP hadn’t arrived 12/7/79.
An Earthbound Trek. I’m not convinced it’s the best setting for a Star Trek movie, but we’ve been there before.
“Let’s go find George and Gracie!”
I can’t express how much I have no interest in this. Sorry to say. As well as the Sec. 31 film, and the Academy series. No interest in any of them. Thankfully, I have all previous Trek at my disposal, which I engage in weekly. Cheers.-
OK
I don’t have any interest in these but still willing to watch, but they have to be good……..
Pass
Assuming this script makes official Greenlit status (in next couple months)?
Curious to know the budget and if it will be <100 million….much like what they did with Alien:Romulus, with all new cast of unknowns or rising stars to save money. They could use the resources of the P+ production crews, props, uniforms, digital sets, VFX (Disco, SNW, Picard, Starfleet Academy, S31…even back to Enterprise) and modify/redress or shoot in dark rooms, all to save $$$.
Just for reference Alien Romulus cost $80 million but made $350 million. That’s pretty amazing for its budget. It made over 4 times that.
This is what Star Trek should be aiming for because like Alien it’s a middle tier franchise. The Alien movies have all been made for $130 million or less. If they keep that for future Star Trek movies, we probably get more as long as they can hit around $300 million.
I think the days of $200 million movies are done for Trek and never should’ve been that much anyway when bigger IPs are failing to justify those budgets today.
If this takes place in the span of time between First Contact and ENT’s Broken Bow, they could get Cromwell to reprise the role of Zefram Cochrane since that timespan would allow for him to appear at his current age.
Not sure how they’d fit Henry Archer without recasting the part, though.
It is possible that the movie could be set aboard a Vulcan ship with humans being taken offworld for the first time to see what is out there, but if this contradicts Enterprise it’ll likely not endear itself with fans.
That’s actually an AMAZING idea if they could get Cromwell back for this! That would get even casual fans more interested in this movie.
Thanks, and, yeah, definitely.
I’m indifferent to the plot they are outlining here, I can see both the potential and headaches. But I’m sure this appeals to the top brass and producers because it frees them up with a clean sheet for production design and storytelling. All of that likely makes it more accessible to a broader audience. Still, a Star Trek movie that tries to minimize the presence of Star Trek is never going to be terribly enticing to fans.
Why is that failure keeps getting rewarded in Hollywood? Its a legitimate question. The origin of the Federation has been done and explained in multiple Trek incarnations. Simon Kinberg wrote one of the worst X-Men movies ever made. JJ Abrams destroyed the Star Wars franchise and these are the two guys you want to produce your new film?
You need an adult in the room. Someone like Denis Villeneuve who showed Dune respect. I wish that someone would show Gene Roddenberry’s vision that kind of respect. Note to Paramount, Star Trek will never be Star Wars. Stop trying to turn it into something it is not.
Paramount has a corporate mentality when it comes to Trek. Learn from Disney’s failure with Star Wars. Get an adult in the room who understands Trek and respects the audience.
It has been almost 10 years since we have seen the Kelvin crew. These are not serious people, if they were, we would have a sequel years
Had a sequel years ago. They keep throwing things at the wall. A Space movie that takes place on Earth. lol. Okay.
I’d love to see a guy like Denis Villeneuve taking a crack at Trek.
He’s gonna do RAMA, but I’m not thrilled about it yet, not after how part 2 was such a letdown.
Lucasfilm hasn’t fixed its problems at all. They cancelled the 2026 release date for the Rey Skywalker movie. The number of rewrites they’ve already gone through its turning into another Indiana Jones V disaster.
Looking at summer/winter releases in 2026 I’m struggling to see how a Star Trek movie wouldn’t get obliterated by the competition
May
Avengers Doomsday (might want to steer away from that!)
Untitled Spielberg UFO movie
Star Wars Mandalorian
Untitled DC movie
June
Masters of the Universe
Toy Story 5
Untitled WBros
Supergirl
July
Shrek 6
Moana
Untitled Christopher Nolan (with Matt Damon/Tom Holland)
Spiderman 4
October
Batman 2
TMNT
Untitled Jordan Peele
November
Untitled Marvel
Untitled Universal
Hunger Games
December
Jumanji 4
Untitled Star Wars (probably unlikely since already a SW in summer)
Untitled WBros & Universal
Dune 3
Also not yet given dates but due 2026 – Fast XI, LOTR Hunt for Gollum, Ice Age 6 (presumably some of those ‘Untitled’)..
Probably just more proof it’s not coming out in 2026 if it comes out at all. And they never officially threw out a date because they probably knew they couldn’t stick to it (gee, I wonder why?). And since they are still far behind of the movie going into production, the reality is they may not even start shooting it until the summer.
Maybe they will get it out by 2026, but I’d rather they just take their time since this will (supposedly) be a new series of movies and try to get it right as possible. And as Beyond proved, trying to get a movie out for an anniversary means little if not enough people care one way or the other to go see it.
Again if it was that important, they had all the time to start much sooner.
The Rey movie has been pulled from the schedule for Christmas 2026. They brought Daisy on stage at celebration to announce a fake movie. I’ve never seen something so bizarre since JJ announced the 4th JJ trek without a single cast member signed.
Yay, another prequel.
I’m in, as long as it continues where “First Contact” ended – or at least lives in the same world with these events not being retconned in some fashion or the other.
I hope thats true.
At this point, will be celebrating when I get a ticket and a seat in front of the screen at the AMC near my place. :D
To be honest nothing in this article sounds like a win for either Star Trek or Star Wars fans.
They had 3 origin stories called Enterprise, Strange New Worlds and First Contact. There is no need to go in the past again. First Contact focused on the Vulcans. Enterprise did a great job in filling in a lot of blanks about Klingons, Andorians, and first encounters with Ferengi and Xindi.
Hopefully they will pick-up on or just after the events of ENT season 4s penultimate episode “Terra Prime’.
There could be some flash back to Archers speech etc and then we have a whole new timeline to explore the birth of the Federation between ENT and DISCO.
Maybe the adventures of Captain April and the first crew of old NCC-1701! No bloody A,B,C,D,E,F or G! :)
i dont understand how it can be an origin story for the main timeline and not kelvin… any origin story would be an origin for both since they dont split up until well after when this movie is supposed to take place.
It can probably be for both but they just want to make clear it takes place specifically in the Prime universe.
And I think it’s more for marketing purposes since they know most fans want to stay in the Prime universe even though technically it doesn’t really matter.
Do we really need yet another “origin” story?
Any time there’s a reboot or “reinvisioning” of a franchise, the same tired origin story has to be retold again.
How many times have we spent watching the Spiderman origin in a movie?
Studios have to accept that we already know the general origin of a character, so move on and start the real story. Don’t waste the majority of a movie showing us what we already know.
It doesn’t look like it will be an origin story for the existing fans as it has been described as an entry point for those who don’t know anything about, or even care to know anything about the decades of Star Trek that has come before and won’t be reliant on the need to keep up with any of the shows on Paramount+.
That was literally how Enterprise was pitched. It too was a show that was made for people who didn’t know anything about Star Trek (the entire reason why they originally didn’t include ‘Star Trek’ in the title of the show). And then the same idea was pitched for the Kelvin movies and why it was placed in its own universe. Both projects were made with the idea of ‘starting over’ and giving new fans a chance to learn about it from the ground up. Obviously both were accessible for old fans but the emphasis was trying to reach new fans as the franchise was now aging.
That’s the irony, they have been trying this route literally since 2001. It obviously failed with Enterprise but was more a success with the Kelvin movies, at least at the beginning. But they couldn’t keep that group long term unfortunately. And they were still not as many as Paramount hoped and that was before Beyond bombed. And since they said the next movie will be its last (assuming it ever happens at all), that tells you how much that experiment failed in the end as well.
And here they are trying to do it yet again. I hate to sound cynical but I don’t think this is going to be any more successful in terms of grabbing new fans as the others. Sure some, but I suspect by the end like everything since Enterprise it will mainly just be the old fans who will mostly care by the end.
It will always be the old fans who end up sticking with Star Trek through all of these new ideas trying to attract new fans while not really getting what they truly want to see because Paramount has convinced itself that no one could possibly become a fan of any Star Trek that isn’t emulating Marvel or DC or whatever.
Yep, sad but true.
The Section 31 trailer makes that very clear. 🙄