![]() If this isn’t a saga whose moment has come, my name’s Nurse Chapel.The cinematic reveal trailer gave nothing away in terms of gameplay, understandably considering that the game is in early development. So let’s welcome back Star Trek, and hope those fee negotiations go well. We can only hope that Patty Jenkins’ forthcoming Rogue Squadron will learn from that show’s many mistakes. The Book of Boba Fett is just the latest example of producers dredging up characters that should have been left to get digested by the sarlacc. Meanwhile, the Star Wars franchise (despite the brilliant Mandalorian) continues to underestimate fans’ appetite for fresh stories set a long time ago in that galaxy far, far away. It turns out that granting film-makers the freedom to boldly go where no screenwriter had gone before made for some of the greatest space-opera set pieces in modern cinema. In their place are madcap space battles and helter-skelter sprints through alien jungles. Gone are the plotlines dealing with philosophical questions about the nature of mankind and its place in the universe. Trekkers, of course, detest that Abrams rebooted Star Trek to make it more like Star Wars. If Kirk and co wanted their next adventure to be a psychedelic journey to the home-planet of the Tribbles in the company of those dodgy aliens from the (racially insensitive) Next Generation episode Code of Honor, they could do so without any worries about damaging the legacy of previous shows and movies. The genius of JJ Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek (much to the chagrin of certain fans, who didn’t want time travel involved) was that it completely rebooted the timeline, giving the series permission to go in any direction it saw fit. Three years ago, an attempt to bring back the series floundered when the studio was unable to strike a deal with Chris Hemsworth to reprise his brief cameo as Kirk’s dad from 2009’s Star Trek, which suggests the men in suits didn’t believe a new episode could work without parachuting in a star name best known for an entirely different franchise (in Hemsworth’s case, the Marvel Cinematic Universe).īut perhaps Paramount has finally worked out how fortunate it is to have a film series that could easily be at the beginning of its run rather than the end. So why plan another film now, especially as Star Trek hardly needs the big screen to thrive in the era of streaming? Small screen spin-offs such as Picard and Star Trek: Discovery have found their audiences, while Paramount was so nervous about making a fourth instalment that it reportedly carried out market research into whether fans really wanted to see Pine and Quinto back on the bridge (luckily, they did). But generally, the series and its cast have been well-received by critics and audiences. And let’s not forget how much some fans hated 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness. Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond (the third film in the rebooted series) may have struggled at the box office in 2016, certainly for such an expensive, high-profile effort. The only question is why the studio didn’t get this one zooming past the moon a lot earlier. According to Variety, Paramount hopes the project could be shooting by the end of this year. Simon Pegg’s Scotty, Zoe Saldana’s Uhura, Karl Urban’s Bones and John Cho’s Sulu are all tipped to return for a movie to be directed by WandaVision’s Matt Shakman, provided deals can be done with agents. The long-running sci-fi saga is returning to the big screen with a fourth episode featuring Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk and Zachary Quinto’s Spock, along with the duo’s various Starship Enterprise crewmates. G reat news for Star Trek fans, though perhaps not hardcore “Trekkers”. ![]()
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