The next Star Trek film

Plot kept under wraps. The follow-up to Star Trek Beyond (2016).

Produced by
J.J. Abrams ... producer

I wonder if they ever will do another Kelvin movie. They announce this fairly often...but nothing ever seems to materialise. They might be better off trying to get a TV-franchise that can work...and then make a movie out of that.

It was really pointless of Discovery to be set in the past but then give us all this end of the Federation drama every season despite us knowing it will be fine.

I wanna see what happened where we left off last not all this memberberries and origin story crap

I thought Star Trek movies had pretty much stalled. Didn't realise it was in active development

I would love if Scottie was replaced, terrible terrible over actor he ruins it for me

If they were any way clever about this (a big ask, I know), they should just write a good story in the Trek universe that doesn't involve the Enterprise at all. Then they would not need to hire Chris Pine or any of the others. If they could somehow make a good Trek movie, the audience is there.

....or I dunno, make a Discovery Movie and just piss off everyone...hard to tell with these people.

Ach leave the man alone, it's not like James Doohan was subtle.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I figured (I know Pegg was bandied about to direct also). I mean there were all the different ideas: Kirk's dad (Yeah right, I'm sure Helmsworth would come back :) ), Tarantino's one.

I can't see it happening, to be honest. Not with the current crew. Not for another 8 years or so. It's hard to see what the next trend will be. We went straight from Marvel/Superhero movie overload to lockdown. Dune, thankfully, did well (As well as can be expected given post lockdown and the fact that there was a perfect HBO Max copy online before cinema launch).

I just don't know if there is the appetite so spend 100M plus the same again on international promotion. The cinema landscape has changed so much over the last few years. It will change back after some time. Maybe even as early as 2023 when Dune part 2 comes out and the next Nolan film and others. But I think people are a bit shellshocked at the moment and (This may cause some backlash) while I enjoy Trek on the big screen....... I think its real home is on TV and they are huge budget episodes

Or the easiest way to make sure your movie turns a profit when you're working with such an established IP as Star Trek: gut the marketing budget. I'm totally unconvinced that these 100m marketing spends ever see a return on their cost. It's a new Star Trek movie: Empire will still give it a cover, Youtubers will still be analysing every frame of the trailer: a modest budget for a billboard campaign and send forward your cast for the chat show circuit and you're done imo. There's no need to be on every bus, every bus-stop, every TV & Radio ad-break and promoted tweet. Once a fan base like Trek knows when the film is coming (and have been convinced by the trailer that it isn't the Michael Burnham show again) they'll show up.

One year lead time?....uh...that does not bode well.

No-one has seen a script either, which indicates they don't have one and might do a lot of this on the fly. They really need at least 2 years, from approved script, to shooting, to post, to marketing. That's not to say that they can't rush-job a good movie in a year, but given the quality of rush-job movies in the past decade I can't expect a quality product by X-mas 2023 if this is their plan.

They'd be better off gunning for 2024 and do a proper job of it.

He'd be a good choice. Up for it, knowledgeable (And relatively cheap). My only concern with Orville was that it was quite middle-of-the-road. Certainly early series. The last one I enjoyed (Although I do know I have been... inconsistent about my thoughts on the humour in The Orville). So, my only concern is if the movie plays it too safe.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to gut Trek (I never liked the idea of a Tarantino Trek) but it needs to up the stakes. Not another Nu-Trek remake. Bring in some new baddies with a genuine beef. I mean, I cannot even remember what the last one was about Idris Elba transforming into an alien. Kirk on a motorbike. Some crew member holding a McGuffin in her head, some alien joining starfleet.

While I have said that Orville plays it safe, I have also said that it has more human characters than regular Trek and I like that. And would like to see more of that. And that's where having an antagonist with a genuine grievance. Sort of a "Jesus Christ, you know what? You're not wrong". (I could never hear Picard saying that). I really quite liked Black Panther movie because of the motivations of the bad guy. Here you had a country that could have easily stopped the slave trade but chose not to do so out of fear/some moral principle.

Didn't Scotty already make an appearance, in voice only, in a Quality of Mercy?

I'd prefer a non-Scotty chief engineer in season 2 too.

I mean he kept DS9 together. Anything that isn't another KurtzTrek California casting is fine with me.

Sick of everyone sounding like the ship is an L.A. Starbucks.

Jess Bush is Australian. They could have just retroed it. I mean fk it Robert April is black now and Kyle is Asian.