“Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup. (trekmovie.com)
from Corgana@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website on 12 Apr 2024 14:54
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veeesix@lemmy.ca on 12 Apr 2024 15:16 next collapse

The film is “set decades before the original 2009 Star Trek film.” Toby Haynes (AndorBlack Mirror “USS Callister”) is directing based on a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith (The Lego Batman Movie), with J.J. Abrams returning as producer.

[…] the origin story movie is set to start filming by the end of the year. There are no details yet on the plot, specific time setting, or cast. If Paramount can move fast enough they could get the origin movie into theaters by 2026—in time for Star Trek’s 60th anniversary.

I’d be down for an Andor-styled origin story.

Corgana@startrek.website on 12 Apr 2024 15:28 next collapse

Me too weirdly. I have watched the Kelvinverse movies all exactly once, but this doesn’t sound so bad.

theinspectorst@kbin.social on 12 Apr 2024 15:45 next collapse

But ... I thought the 2009 film was an origin story?

It was literally the story of how the Kelvinverse came to exist and it followed Kirk, Spock, McCoy and co from their Academy days.

veeesix@lemmy.ca on 12 Apr 2024 16:07 next collapse

My take is that it’s a Starfleet origin story post-Archer.

EDIT: looking up the timeline of events that puts us somewhere between 2155-2258. I’d say there’s probably a movie within those 100-odd years.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 2024 15:49 next collapse

Now we get to see their conceptions

MamboGator@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 2024 16:55 collapse

And Discovery. And Strange New Worlds. And Enterprise. And First Contact. How many origin stories does Star Trek need? Paramount needs to stop with the prequels.

CileTheSane@lemmy.ca on 12 Apr 2024 23:22 collapse

Stories are a lot easier to write if you don’t have to come up with an ending.

xyguy@startrek.website on 12 Apr 2024 15:45 next collapse

I think they mean Seth Grahme-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

So I’m down. Please not too many pew pew space battles. You can include Abe Lincoln if appropriate. That is precedented and canonical for Star Trek.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 2024 15:48 next collapse

I’d be down if they dropped JJ Abrams.

e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net on 12 Apr 2024 18:14 collapse

It might be OK so long as JJ sticks to producing has has absolutely no input on the story.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 2024 19:05 next collapse

He needs to earn that trust back first.

lucidinferno@lemmy.world on 16 Apr 2024 14:58 collapse

Someone hide his Mystery Box.

criitz@reddthat.com on 12 Apr 2024 18:53 collapse

JJ Abrams 🙄

crusa187@lemmy.ml on 12 Apr 2024 16:03 next collapse

Please…no Bakula.

Corgana@startrek.website on 12 Apr 2024 23:42 collapse

…Maybe a little Bakula

FMT99@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 2024 15:16 next collapse

They will never make another thoughtful, dialog heavy, diplomacy and reason focused Star Trek series. The mass audience won’t go to see it if there aren’t lots of explosions and personal drama and that’s the audience they want.

ricdeh@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 2024 16:06 collapse

What exactly makes you think that? Strange New Worlds has very little action, and is loved by fans as far as I can tell. Yes, it has “personal drama”, but Star Trek always had that and it’s not a bad thing.

cybervseas@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 2024 16:58 collapse

I’d say TOS was very very light on “personal drama”, which really ramped up from TNG onwards.

CileTheSane@lemmy.ca on 12 Apr 2024 23:24 collapse

That was because Gene Rodenberry wouldn’t let them have inter-personal conflict

Olap@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 2024 15:47 next collapse

Archer returns!

Blaster_M@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 2024 15:49 next collapse

It’s been a long road

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 2024 15:51 collapse

Danger Zone?

BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social on 12 Apr 2024 22:28 collapse

Oh good, because if there's one thing Star Trek needs it's another origin story /s

CileTheSane@lemmy.ca on 12 Apr 2024 23:21 next collapse

It’s like Spiderman. Someone really needs to do a movie about how that all started, I don’t think it’s been done before.

Opafi@feddit.de on 13 Apr 2024 07:30 collapse

You know, the universe doesn’t offer much beyond that ship called the Enterprise… What could they possibly do?