Star Trek 4

Genre

action film, science fiction film, thriller film, science fiction action film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a science fiction film that was meant to be the fourth movie in the rebooted Star Trek series. Many different writers and directors worked on it over the years, but it was never made.

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What happens

Star Trek 4 was the working title of an unproduced American science fiction film in development at Paramount Pictures based on the television series Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry. It was intended to be part of the Star Trek film franchise and was originally announced as the fourth installment of the franchise's reboot films following Star Trek Beyond (2016). There were several iterations of the film in development with different filmmakers between 2015 and 2025, alongside alternate attempts to continue the film franchise. Development of a direct sequel to Beyond was revealed before the release of that film, with J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay writing. In December 2017, Quentin Tarantino pitched his own idea for a new Star Trek film to producer J. J. Abrams. Development began separately from the Beyond sequel, but the film did not move forward when Tarantino decided not to direct it. S. J. Clarkson was hired to direct the Beyond sequel in April 2018, but it was canceled when stars Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth exited. Noah Hawley was hired in November 2019 to write and direct a Star Trek film that would take the franchise in a new direction. It entered pre-production, but this was placed on hold by new Paramount executives who reassessed the franchise and chose not to continue with Hawley's version. Kalinda Vazquez was writing a new film in March 2021. Matt Shakman was hired in July to direct another version, written by Lindsey Beer and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Josh Friedman and Cameron Squires also contributed to the script. Pre-production for this version was placed on hold when Shakman left to direct The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) instead. By 2024, Paramount was developing multiple Star Trek films, including Star Trek 4—with a new script by Steve Yockey—and a franchise "origin story" film to be directed by Toby Haynes and written by Seth Grahame-Smith. Star Trek 4 was described as the "final chapter" of the main reboot film series. Work on both films stalled amid the merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global, which led to Star Trek 4 being canceled. In November 2025, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley were hired to make a new film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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