The final “Star Trek” function movie launched in theaters was “Star Trek Past” again in 2016. The film was directed by Justin Lin, the filmmaker behind “Higher Luck Tomorrow” and several other of the “Quick and Livid” motion pictures, and it was co-written by Simon Pegg, who additionally performed Scotty within the movie. “Past,” the third movie within the Kelvin timeline, was … fairly good. The motion was clear and the character work was strong — your complete solid introduced their A-games — however the movie total was generic motion nonsense; it was the fourth “Star Trek” movie in a row a couple of twisted villain on a mission of revenge. Sadly, “Past” wasn’t as massive successful as Paramount wished, and it gave the impression to be the tip of the highway for “Star Trek” in theaters.
Ever since, although, Paramount has been persistently struggling to make a fourth “Star Trek” film set within the Kelvin timeline. As of this writing, some new plans are afoot to lastly make stated movie together with a prequel film set at an earlier level within the “Star Trek” timeline. Given what number of false begins there have been on “Star Trek 4,” nonetheless, one will merely must bide their time to see if something involves fruition.
Due to the numerous, many difficulties in bringing “Star Trek 4” to the large display screen, one would possibly start to imagine it’s “cursed.” On the very least, every passing day makes it that rather more troublesome to get a film made. It definitely did not assist that one of many movie’s most important solid members, Anton Yelchin, died in a automobile accident in 2016. If “Star Trek 4” will get made, it must clarify why Yelchin’s character, Pavel Chekov, is absent.
In an interview with Katee Sackhoff on “The Sackhoff Present,” Pegg talked a bit bit about his “Star Trek” experiences. In doing so, he admitted he has a tough time imagining “Star Trek 4” ever getting made, seeing as it could be “tainted” by Yelchin’s absence.
Simon Pegg would not wish to make a Star Trek movie with out Anton Yelchin
Pegg, in fact, stated he’d like to return as Scotty and really a lot enjoys working along with his co-stars from the “Star Trek” Kelvin timeline movies, which additionally contains Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldaña, John Cho, and Karl City as youthful, sexier variations of the characters from the unique 1966 “Star Trek” TV sequence. However as a lot as Pegg likes collaborating with that ensemble and can be blissful to reunite with them, he feels that Yelchin’s demise can be too obtrusive to disregard. In his personal phrases:
“I would like to do extra. Clearly, it has been eternally tainted as a result of we misplaced Anton, and that was a very arduous factor for everybody concerned, and for the true world, not to mention anything. If we do come again, if there may be one other alternative to come back again, I would like to. As a result of as we had been saying earlier on, it is a group of fellows that I dearly, dearly love and do not get to see fairly often […] It might be good to get again along with them.”
There’s an extra problem with making a “Star Trek 4” at this late date: the “youthful” actors from the 2009 movie are actually older than their authentic sequence counterparts in 1966. When James Doohan performed Scotty on “Star Trek,” he was 46. Pegg, in 2024, is already 54. If the promoting level of the Kelvin timeline was to current youthful, extra passionate, hot-headed variations of the “Star Trek” characters we love, then the solid has sort of aged out.
There’s additionally the monetary actuality of Paramount overspending on “Star Trek” for the reason that debut of Paramount+ in 2017. There was a short time when the market was flooded and several other “Star Trek” reveals had been operating concurrently. Just lately, nonetheless, lots of these reveals have been canceled, and much fewer “Star Trek” tasks are within the works than have been up to now. A fourth Kelvin “Star Trek” film would possibly simply be an excessive amount of for the franchise to face up to at this level.
