“Star Trek” is about to discover an entire new period of its timeline. A brand new film in the universe Gene Roddenberry created, to be produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot for Paramount, and directed by “Andor” helmer Toby Haynes and written by “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” scribe Seth Grahame-Smith, is arriving at impulse energy, if not warp.
The movie can be set many years earlier than the occasions of the 2009 “Star Trek” movie Abrams directed, which explored a parallel timeline to the principle “Star Trek” canon viewers have identified and liked to indicate how Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) met for the primary time. It’s unclear if it is going to really be set in that timeline — identified to Trekkies because the “Kelvin Timeline” — or in the principle continuity. But apparently it is going to be an “origin” story, so it should be linked ultimately to “Trek” storytelling that’s already identified and liked.
That mentioned, Paramount is looking the untitled movie “an expansion of the ‘Star Trek’ universe.” At the very least which means exploring a brand new a part of the “Trek” timeline. If it’s many years earlier than the occasions of the 2009 movie, which means it’s in all probability after the occasions of prequel sequence “Star Trek: Enterprise,” set within the mid twenty second century and concluding with the founding of the United Federation of Planets. So if it’s within the “Kelvin Timeline,” it could possibly be set across the time that Kirk’s father George (performed by Chris Hemsworth within the 2009 movie) was a primary officer in Starfleet. There have been rumors for years about Hemsworth probably starring in one other “Trek” movie, provided that his fame rose exponentially following his transient look in Abrams’ movie, as the primary “Thor” film was nonetheless two years away. One would have anticipated any Hemsworth taking part to have been introduced at the moment, nonetheless.
Other than Hemsworth’s scene within the 2009 movie, and little flashbacks within the follow-up movie “Star Trek: Beyond” nearly nothing has been glimpsed of the virtually 100 years between “Star Trek: Enterprise” and the launch of the USS Enterprise almost a century later. So this might very a lot be “fresh snow” for Grahame-Smith and Haynes to discover. And if there’s something “Star Trek” loves, it’s unknown territory.
But there’s something extra acquainted within the works too: a “Star Trek 4” that wraps up the Pine-Quinto-starring movies Abrams kicked off remains to be apparently within the works, even if Pine feared that it’s cursed.
Reporting by Brian Welk.
