After months without news, a report arrived Thursday afternoon on the next steps for the Star Trek films. Paramount Pictures is apparently looking for a new version of a screenwriter who has some experience with the franchise.
Kalinda Vazquez writing the script for Star Trek
The news comes from Deadline in an exclusive report that Paramount Pictures called on Kalinda Vazquez to write a script for “an original film she created”. According to the report, Bad Robot by JJ Abrams is producing for the project. Although Abrams signed a new contract with Warner Brothers, he and Bad Robot continued their relationship with Paramount, including producing two upcoming Mission Impossible movies and a close Cloverfield sequel.
Fans can recognize Vazquez’s name when she joined Star Trek: Discovery as a consultant producer in the third season and wrote the teleplay of the episode “Terra Firma, Part 2.” She also wrote the Short Treks episode “Ask Not.” It can also be said that Star Trek was part of his entire life, as it was named after the character Kelinda (a Kelvan) from Star Trek: the original series episode “By any other name”. Before entering Discovery, Vazquez worked as a writer and producer on several series, including Fear of the undead, Once Upon a time, Prison Break, and Nikita. Vazquez was recently chosen to collaborate with George RR Martin on HBO’s time travel series Roadmarks in which it will be executive production and exhibition.
This would be her first feature film project and would make her the first woman to write a Star Trek movie. Discovery Showrunner Michelle Paradise congratulated Vazquez on Twitter.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @KalindaVazquez!!!!!!!!! I am so excited to see this one day (hopefully sooner or later!). 🖖 https://t.co/zelReYTeVn
– Michelle Paradise (@michelleparadis) March 4, 2021
No word yet on the cast, the plot, a director or how the film connects to the Star Trek Universe.
This would be the fourth script that Paramount has commissioned since Star Trek Beyond in 2016. Other projects that are under development include a direct sequence of In addition with Chris Hemsworth returning as George Kirk, a Trek film rated as censored based on an idea by Quentin Tarrantino, and a new view of Trek from writer / director Noah Hawley.
Last summer, all of these projects were on hold while Paramount’s new film director Emma Watts considered the franchise’s next step. This new roadmap may indicate that she has decided to leave all other projects behind and move in a new direction.
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