A Model New ‘Star Trek’ Film Is Coming From the Group Behind ‘Dungeons & Dragons’

Star Trek is, as soon as once more, boldly going someplace it’s by no means gone earlier than. Contemporary off the information that Paramount was trying to completely reboot the series for the big screen, it has employed Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley to jot down, produce, and direct a brand new Star Trek movie. They’re the workforce that made the superb 2023 movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, in addition to the underrated 2018 movie Recreation Evening.

Deadline broke the information of the venture, which is “a totally new take within the Star Trek universe and isn’t related to any earlier or present tv collection, film, or prior film improvement tasks.” Plus, this model is prone to introduce fully new characters to the franchise, although it’s unclear in the event that they’ll star or help the story.

It’s been a wild decade on this planet of Star Trek. After the 2016 launch of Star Trek Past, a proposed subsequent sequel that includes that forged (Chris Pine, Zoe Salanda, Zachary Quinto, and so on.) took many shapes and forms. In the meantime, the franchise discovered new life, each forging forward and backward, on streaming. Reveals like Picard, Unusual New Worlds, and plenty of extra ignited a renaissance for a franchise that bought its begin on TV. However, at all times, the query of a film lingered.

Quentin Tarantino took a swing. Noah Hawley did the identical. And up to date rumors instructed we had been going to get a prequel trying again on the very earliest years of Starfleet. Now, it appears, all of that’s gone with Paramount’s new regime. However, if issues had to return to the drafting board, there are few groups higher in Hollywood than Goldstein and Daley.

Although they’ve solely directed three movies up to now (Trip, Recreation Evening, Dungeons & Dragons), every has more and more proven a capability to mix humor, nostalgia, and a dose of geek tradition into a number of genres. Their fourth movie, Mayday, is out subsequent yr and can reportedly do one thing comparable. Plus, they helped kick off the Tom Holland Spider-Man universe by co-writing Spider-Man: Homecoming. 

So they appear like a great match. Additionally, we’ll by no means ever recover from the truth that Daley is a former actor who’s greatest recognized for his starring function as Sam Weir on Freaks and Geeks. That Sam Weir bought to co-direct a Dungeons & Dragons film and is now going to make a Star Trek film is simply merely one of many coolest issues on this planet.

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