Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are reportedly lined up to write, produce, and are attached to direct a new Star Trek movie for Paramount Pictures.
According to Deadline, “Goldstein and Daley’s film is a completely new take on the Star Trek universe and not connected to any previous or current television series, movie or prior movie development projects.’
No word yet on when this new Star Trek movie will begin shooting or its release date.
Goldstein and Daley wrote and directed Game Night, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and Vacation.
Their screenwriting credits include Spider-Man: Homecoming, Horrible Bosses, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. They also have story credit on The Flash and Horrible Bosses 2.
David Ellison, the Skydance founder who now owns Paramount, recently revealed that the next Star Trek movie would not bring back the Chris Pine-led cast.
The Star Trek film franchise was rebooted in 2009 by director J.J. Abrams but that series fizzled out with the commercially underwhelming release of Star Trek Beyond in 2016.
Various incarnations of a fourth film in the Kelvin timeline were in development at various points in the ensuing years – at one point, there were three different scripts in the works at the same time – including an R-rated, Quentin Tarantino-scripted film to one that would have brought back Chris Hemsworth as Captain James T. Kirk’s father that was dubbed “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in space.” There was also a Simon Kinberg-produced prequel in the mix a few years back.
Chris Pine even vented in 2023 that a fourth Star Trek film for his crew felt cursed.
Simon Pegg, who played Scotty in the Kelvin timeline films, suggested in 2020 one key reason why a fourth Star Trek was struggling to get made: “Star Trek movies don’t make Marvel money. … They make maybe $500 [million] at the most, and to make one now, on the scale they’ve set themselves, is $200 [million]. You have to make three times that to make a profit.”
For more on that project be sure to read Scott Collura’s thorough development hell history of the Star Trek 4 that never was.
