Chris Pine is still holding out hope for Star Trek 4: “I’d love to do it”
By Dan Selcke
A fourth Star Trek movie with Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana and the rest has looked like a no-go for a while, but Captain Kirk is still holding out hope:
The Star Trek universe is alive and well on TV, where there are more shows than you can shake a Klingon bat’leth at. But at the movies, things have stalled. Fargo creator Noah Hawley had a pitch about a plague that sweeps through the galaxy and kills millions, but that was scuttled for obvious reasons. Quentin Tarantino had a weird idea to set a movie on a gangster planet, but it looks like that’s been shelved. And a fourth movie starring the cast introduced in the 2009 Star Trek reboot movie — Chris Pine as Captain Kirk, Zoe Saldana as Uhura, Zachary Quinto as Spock, etc — stalled over contract negotiations.
And yet, Chris Pine is still holding out hope that something could come together. “I’m like the last person to find anything out,” the actor said on the podcast Things Are Going Great For Me. “I know that Paramount is coming out of having restructured a bit and kind of a major corporate restructuring. So hopefully when all that dust settles, something concrete will come out of it and we’ll get to work. I’d love to do it.”
When he talks about “a major corporate restructuring” at Paramount, he’s probably referencing the layoffs the company went through in January of 2019, before parent company Viacom merged back together with CBS at the end of that year.
That was a bit after salary negotiations over Star Trek 4 stalled in 2018, and it makes sense that things haven’t picked up since. As Pine’s castmate Simon Pegg (Scotty) said earlier this year, the movies have “lost momentum.”
Pegg puts some of that to the 2016 death of Anton Yelchin, who played Pavel Chekov in the movies. “I think losing Anton was a huge blow to our little family, and our enthusiasm to do another one might have been affected by that. So I don’t know.”
Indeed, it doesn’t look great, and the pandemic probably hasn’t made things any easier. Still, stranger things have happened:
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