Hey, remember the news when Noah Hawley, creator of TV shows like Fargo and Legion, was working on a new Star Trek film? Well, not anymore. According to the AVClub, Hawley’s film has been put on hold while Paramount’s newly installed motion picture group president Emma Watts re-assesses studio’s projects. It isn’t exactly clear why Paramount is giving up on the project. However, there’s a rumor its premise revolved around a galactic pandemic killing millions. Typically, this would have made for a decent enough Star Trek plotline. But then came 2020 and made it all personal and stuff.
That leaves two other possible Star Trek films. There’s the one pitched by Quentin Tarantino that’s allegedly inspired by a gangster planet from an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, which definitely sounds like Tarantino. The script was written by Mark L. Smith, who worked on the Academy Award-winning The Revenant as well as the wonderful B-movie Overlord in which US soldiers fight Nazi mad science on the eve of the invasion of Normandy in 1944.
And then there’s the third project in which the studio would reunite the cast of J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot. Its premise is a time travel story in which Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk gets to encounter his father, played by Chris Hemsworth. Except that, two years ago, both Chrises left the project. So, yeah. That’s the current state of Star Trek movies, and it doesn’t look promising.
