Star Trek 4: New film announced with original cast from last decade

Actors Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho and Simon Pegg will return for Star Trek 4.

JJ Abrams is producing Star Trek 4, which doesn’t have an official title yet, through Bad Robot. Matt Shackman (WandaVision, Game of Thrones, The Great One) is directing from a screenplay by Josh Friedman (Emerald City, Snowpiercer, Avatar 2) and Cameron Squires (Last Space, The Clapper), WandaVision), based on an early version by Lindsey Beer. (The Empress, The Kingkiller Chronicles, Sierra Burgess is a Loser) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel, Tomb Raider, Gotham City Sirens).

“We are very excited to announce that we are hard at work on a new Star Trek movie that will be filmed by the end of the year that will feature our original cast as well as some new characters that I think will be really fun and exciting and will take Star Trek to places you’ve never seen before,” said JJ Abrams. “ We are excited about this film, we have a bunch of other stories we are talking about that are going to be really exciting, so we can’t wait to show you what we have in store. Until then, live long and prosper. ”

The return of the famous cast in Star Trek 4

Paramount Pictures plans to begin talks to bring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho and Simon Pegg back to the Enterprise for their fourth mission in the venerable sci-fi franchise. The six actors first took on their iconic roles as Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Bones, Sulu and Scotty in 2009’s Star Trek, directed by JJ Abrams, which reset the timeline and allowed for a reboot. be cluttered with old movies and series. They have already returned in two sequels, namely 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness, also directed by JJ Abrams, and 2016’s Star Trek Beyond, directed by Justin Lin.