Paramount Pictures is developing another original Star Trek film project with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot producing. They’ve hired Kalinda Vazquez to write the script, she’s been working on Star Trek: Discovery.
It’s being reported that this is “a blind deal for an original movie that she hatched, one that expands her role in the Trek Universe.” It’s also explained that she got her name, Kelinda” from the original Star Trek series, after a character from the second-season episode “By Any Other Name”, which aired in 1968.
There are no details regarding the story to share. Vazquez is also teaming up with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin on an HBO series adaptation of the Roger Zelazny sci-fi novel Roadmarks. Her other credits also include Fear the Walking Dead, Marvel’s Runaways, Once Upon a Time, Nikita, Human Target and Prison Break, and she also recently adapted Barrier, based on a Brian K. Vaughan graphic novel, for Legendary Television.
The last Star Trek film that we saw was 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. Since then, The Revenant‘s Mark L. Smith, Quentin Tarantino, and Abrams have been worked on an R-rated version of the story. Then another project is being developed by Fargo‘s Noah Hawley. Those projects are currently on hold.
I’m sure one day that we’ll get a new Star Trek movie in theaters, we just don’t know what that movie will end up being. In the meantime, the Star Trek TV shows are stronger than ever.
Source: Deadline