Zachary Quinto: The Star Trek cast would love to do another movie

The Star Trek movie franchise is pretty unsettled, but Zachary Quinto (Spock) assures fans he and the rest of the cast are good to go on another film.

It’s been four years since the last Star Trek movie, Star Trek Beyond, hit theaters, and the future of the franchise on the big screen is uncertain. Reportedly, contract negotiations stalled a potential fourth movie starring the cast who’s appeared in the last three — Chris Pine as Captain Kirk, Zachary Quinto as Spock, Zoe Saldana as Uhura, and so on. In the absence of momentum there, other options have emerged, including a new movie from Fargo creator Noah Hawley with a rebooted cast and maybe something from Quentin Tarantino.

But according to Quinto, the original cast is still rearing to go on a fourth film. “We’re all incredibly close friends in real life, and I think all of us would welcome the opportunity to go back and keep telling those stories,” he said on The Talk.

Will a fourth movie actually happen? It depends on what Emma Watts, the new head of Paramount’s Motion Picture Group, decides.

To hear StarTrek.com tell it, a fourth movie with Pine and company is the frontrunner for development, but while Quinto wants to move forward with that one, The Next Generation star Jonathan Frakes (Riker) would rather the series go in another direction. “I say greenlight the Tarantino and Noah Hawley, if you are lucky enough to get either of them,” he told the website. “And if they are too busy to direct, I’ll be available. [laughs]”

Frakes has indeed directed a couple of Star Trek movies: 1996’s Star Trek: First Contact and 1998’s Star Trek: Insurrection. And while he may be interested to see what Hawley and Tarantino would do with the franchise, he admits that another movie with Pine and company would be the savviest choice. “It captured the zeitgeist again,” he said of the revived Trek films from J.J. Abrams. “His first one [Star Trek 2009] in particular was great. I wasn’t crazy about Idris Elba wearing a mask [Star Trek Beyond]. And I love Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan [in Star Trek Into Darkness]. And I love that cast…. So my opinion is that that movie with J.J.’s cast is the one, if I were betting, that would be greenlit.”

At this point, we’ll take anything. But if you’re hurting for more Star Trek, you can find it, just not on the big screen:

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h/t Digital Spy