Imagine a former co-worker instructed the world you had been coming again to work with them with out your information. That’s apparently what occurred final week to a number of members of the forged of the current theatrical Star Trek movies.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, actors reminiscent of Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, and John Cho had been caught abruptly when franchise director and producer J.J. Abrams instructed Paramount traders a fourth movie was within the works, with them as the celebs. Representations for the actors “were not aware that an announcement for another film was coming, much less that their clients would be touted as a part of the deal, and certainly not that their clients would be shooting a movie by year’s end,” the commerce studies. One doable exception is Chris Pine, who has reportedly begun early negotiations as he’s thought-about the lead character and key particular person to get again.

Frankly, having adopted all of the drama over a fourth Star Trek movie previously few years, we had been somewhat shocked too. In the previous 5 years, a number of iterations of latest Star Trek movies have been in varied phases of improvement, none of which made it out of the gate. Abrams was going to provide one that might deliver again Chris Hemsworth as Kirk’s dad. Legion’s Noah Hawley had a take. And most famously, a script was being written based mostly on an thought from Quentin Tarantino. Those are simply the well-known examples. Then, in July of final yr, information broke that WandaVision director Matt Shakman was on board. But that was mainly the final we heard of it till final week when J.J. Abrams declared “We are thrilled to say that we are hard at work on a new Star Trek film that will be shooting by the end of the year that will be featuring our original cast.”

If all of it works out although—and, let’s be trustworthy, it would if Paramount throws sufficient cash at it—filming may start within the fall as a way to hit subsequent yr’s launch date. And we hope it does. This crew deserves at the least yet one more journey into the ultimate frontier. Just make sure that they know what’s within the script first.

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