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Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley developing Star Trek reboot for Paramount

“Goldstein and Daley’s film is a completely new take on the Star Trek universe and not connected to any previous or current television series, movie or prior movie development projects. That pitch falls in line with Skydance founder David Ellison’s recent comments on an earnings call where he said the next Star Trek film would not be a sequel in the Chris Pine-led series but something different with new actors”

Why even bother? Just make a new TV show.

A Star Trek film not connected to anything from before just seems utterly pointless.
 
Why even bother? Just make a new TV show.

A Star Trek film not connected to anything from before just seems utterly pointless.

Because Trek is something deeper than just a few dozen characters?

I dunno, they've got some decent movie chops. Homecoming was a good film, and Dungeon and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was extremely underrated. I'm willing to see what they have in mind.

That said, given their overall body of work, it seems pretty certain to be a comedy.

Edit: Since they worked with Pine before, maybe they can get him back for a non-Kirk role! Like maybe just a cameo, or even the antagonist?
 
a fresh new take with actors and characters we haven't seen before? hmm...

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Why does one piece of Star Trek have to be connected to prior Star Trek? Wasn't the Spock connection in Discovery mostly disliked? If this movie's captain is named Adam Jacobs, changing it to Adam Sisko changes nothing.
 
I knew it was over years and years ago, but I wanted Star Trek 4. But I also wanted Justice League 2 and the Snyderverse to carry on and look how that turned out.

Hopefully this new Star Trek is good. I applaud them for starting from scratch. A proper, real reboot.

(Unless it's all just more Paramount bullshit, maybe in a few months they'll announce Nicholas Meyer is back to direct a new Star Trek film, and he'll be like, "what?")
 
No mention of J. J. Abrams.
No mention of Alex Kurtzman.
No mention of Akiva Goldsman.
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They wrote the story for "The Flash" (2023).
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They exited The Flash in 2019, with their script heavily rewritten by Christina Hodson, so I don't think they're to blame for the film.
 
I have faith in the writers based on their prior work. I don't have faith in ParaSkyViaCBSYaddaYaddaYadda since we've been down this road how many times since 2016.

I only ask two things of this film: Keep it under a tight budget, Harve Bennett-style, and remember to have a message - say something/make it about something other than special effects and blowing stuff up.
 
I actually did wonder if they should check in with the Lower Decks writing team. Though I'm sure they'd want to keep primary credit.

Considering the show has kind of disappeared from consciousness since it ended, I would love a Lower Decks movie on streaming. While I didn't like Section 31, I think if they wanted to do streaming movies (Like what they did with short treks during the CBS All Access era), that would be cool.

In terms of this news story, I will believe it when I see a trailer. We've been through this song and dance before, like maybe 4 or 5 times since 2016?
 
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I only ask two things of this film: Keep it under a tight budget, Harve Bennett-style...

Yeah, that ain't happening.

and remember to have a message - say something/make it about something other than special effects and blowing stuff up.

Does it matter what it's "about?" Or whether what it says is familiar, trite and repetitious? Because we've had quite enough of that from Trek in the past three decades.
 
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