4th Star Trek movie officially announced
 

Paramount has officially announced the 4th Star Trek movie, Chris Hemsworth will return as George Kirk, James T Kirk's father from the 1st movie.
http://deadline.com/2016/07/star-tre...ne-1201787943/

Sounds like another Star Trek IV that is a time travel story.

How much money did the last one make in the box office? I need to figure something out...

That was my first reaction. God forbid JJ actually do a movie that wasn't connected to another movie that came before it.

Second movie is a Khan story, fourth movie is a time travel story (where are the whales?)...

You heard it here first, kids: sixth "NuTrek" movie will be about those dastardly Klingons. It'll totally be a new original story where Kirk and Uhura are framed for assassinating a Klingon chancellor at peace talks after the Klingon moon is destroyed. :trolleye:

Wouldn't it be nice if the time travel prevented Vulcan's destruction?

You mean Beyond? It hasn't come out yet.

I was thinking that this was more along the lines of "Star Trek Generations", but either way it's ridiculous how Abrams acts like you can't do anything interesting with Trek that hasn't been done before. The sky's the limit with these characters and this world and he just rips off the good movies from thirty years ago.

Again, just means they've hired some people to do a script. If "Beyond" is a beyond expected bomb, you can bet this will just quietly go away.

And... what the hell is this? Kirk going back to hang with his dad? Is he really still asking "Who am I" 4 movies into things? Only way this would be remotely interesting to me is if it ends with Kirk saving his dad's life, the Kelvin, and restoring the timeline. And then vanishing. I mean, it wasn't NuKirk's fault the timeline got screwed up and he was made into a sh*tty character... but at least he can be remembered as the guy that fixed it. That's something, at least.

Who will play Chekov?

Obviously Yelchin doesn't "own" the character but given the probably low shelf life of the current movieverse, I'd hope they'd just promote the character off the ship or something between films. Like, "Oh cool, this version of Chekov actually made it."

I hope they just let his character go... say he went off on his own adventures or something. Then again, they didn't bat an eye about CGIing Phillip Seymour Hoffman into the last Hunger Games movie, or Marlon Brando in Superman Returns, so they'll probably not let him rest in peace either.

Regarding Chekov, they don't plan on recasting the character, so they can just make it like he reassigned to another ship.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.2714155

I look forward to an original character taking his place. That could be very interesting.

I would like to see characters from the Star Trek animated series appear in the 4th one.

The animated series sucked. But I suppose the character designs could be reused...

Watch them put a young boy Jean-Luc Picard in one of these films. It would be funny if they used the guy playing young Prof. Xavier in the latest X-men films to also play a young Picard in these reboots.

At least they're going out of their way to be original with these new films. Khan in the second one. Destroy the Enterprise in the third. Time travel in the fourth.

Wasn't the original contract for the actors 3 movies? So if they make this 4th one I'm betting its another 3 movie contract.

We'll probably get 6 movies out of this rebooted universe. Can't wait to see Kirk and Spock try to save the whales.

I would love to see M'Ress in the 4th movie.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/M'Ress

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...path-prefix=en

She's a Caitian who served in the Enterprise as a relief communications officer

Yeah, I'll bet you would, Lars. :trolleye:

I missed that one. I wonder if anyone will go looking for Spock in "Beyond?"

"Where's Spock, Jim?"
"I dunno, Bones... we'd better SEARCH for him."

Wouldn't be surprised one bit.

I think studios do this as a marketing ploy to reassure customers and sponsors that seeing this movie or promoting this movie will not be a waste of time/money. 'We have confidence in this film, and so should you'. They can pull the plug later if need be and no one who matters will call them on it.

The movie could be good for all I know, it's just that studios are pretty trigger-happy announcing sequels these days despite being terrible at predicting their success.

Happens all of the time.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/thor/...ar-and-a148066

So now the Star Trek 4th movie basically is just a "pitch" from Abrams that's floating out there... not a movie that's been green-lit or in any form of pre-production, as the media was led to believe and latch onto.

Not surprised at all. Die without honor.

I think they need to completely rethink what they want to do for Star Trek 14. I think they know they need to completely rethink what they want to do for Star Trek 14.

It might actually be one of those things where everybody can be happy. What do I mean? Imagine like a big Q movie, with Q trying to teach some final lesson to Picard, throwing him and the Enterprise E back to various times and places throughout Trek lore (hey, maybe dragging Captain Sisko along for the cause), finally to meet the Kelvin in the hours before the arrival of the Narada. Together Picard and George Kirk are able to repel the Narada. Timeline restored, Picard and crew all return to their future, finding it all better... and we get a more proper "goodbye" this time. Or we see the launch of the Enterprise-F with a new crew, maybe this one launched with a Temporal Drive so that Starfleet can be prepared for the next Nero much better.

It'd probably be better than what Abrams has in mind, but I'd prefer this to go the way of, say, the 2005 Catwoman movie. Omerta. We pretend it never happened, we never discuss it, and we go back to Real Star Trek. On the small screen.

Aw, man, that sucks. These movies are dope.

The only part that would remotely make me sad about that is that it would leave Spock "Prime"'s fate kind of ignorable. As is, he at least had some sort of... uhm... new adventure.

I would have killed to get that "Star Trek Avengers" idea with Picard assembling Worf, Odo, Seven, the EMH Doctor, and a couple of other 24th century crew for one last blow-out adventure... :tsad:

If they do go through with the idea of Kirk meeting his dad, I hope that it's not through time travel, but through a parallel universe; That Kirk meets a version of his dad who survived to the "present" in another reality.

https://trekmovie.com/2018/04/15/sim...ar-trek-movie/

Ugh... no! No more Abrams Trek, please.

I don't think it's anything to worry about. Star Trek can't compete with Star Wars on the big screen, and it shouldn't try to, either.

Looks like this is still on. I thought the box office performance of Beyond killed this movie.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/am...mpression=true

So there will be both Tarantino and Abhrams from the look of that article. I was wondering if they would do one or the other, or make the current crew into an R rated Tarantino movie.

I remember when they were planning the 4th movie. They were gonna have Chris Hemsworth reprise his role as Kirk's Father.

More interested in the sequel with S.J. Clarkson at the helm than I am with the one Tarantino is penning.

We've seen what these movies look like when they're all glib and shiny, and those weren't great.

That never made it farther than a conversation. It was FAKE news to get people to go and see "Beyond" (it didn't work).

I hope this happens. I would watch it so hard.

They have to make at least 6 movies with the new Trek cast.