Wrath of Khan director pitched Paramount on a new Star Trek movie

The latest Star Trek movie to come out was Star Trek Beyond in 2016. That’s not too long ago, but it feels like forever, because we keep hearing about new potential movies Paramount considers making but doesn’t. Chris Pine is holding out hope for a Beyond sequel. Quentin Tarantino had an idea for a Trek movie for a while. Fargo director Noah Hawley was gonna take a swing. And so on.

And there are more we hadn’t heard about yet. For example, Nicholas Meyer — the director behind 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, still considered among the best the film franchise has to offer — recently told TrekMovie.com about his own pitch.

“We didn’t write a whole script,” Meyer said. “We wrote a very detailed treatment and a whole pitch doc with illustrations. It’s [a] very comprehensive thing … first we took it to Alex Kurtzman, then we took it to J.J. [Abrams], and then we took it to [studio head] Emma Watts at Paramount.”

"It was a detailed proposal for what could have been a film, or it could have been a series, or it could have been a film leading to a series or a series leading to a film… It could be a series of films. Yeah, absolutely…This was an independent piece of the Star Trek universe based on holes in the chronology, which would allow for the insertion of original material."

He didn’t give away any specific details about the project, but between this and everything else, surely Paramount has enough material for a series of series of Star Trek films.

Paramount finally greenlights new Star Trek movie from Discovery writer

And to their credit, the studio is finally getting rolling on something. Last week, Deadline broke the news that Star Trek: Discovery writer and producer Kalinda Vazquez (who’s named after a character from Star Trek: The Original Series, FYI) is writing a Star Trek movie for J.J. Abrams, who rebooted the movie franchise back in 2009. Is it a continuation of that story, with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto and the rest of the crew returning? Is it something else? We don’t know, but at least it’s something.

Meanwhile, if the Star Trek movies have been in limbo for too long, Star Trek TV shows are having the opposite problem:

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