As legendary as Star Wars, will this intergalactic saga be entitled to a 4th film?

Call it the third film in his Limitless franchise, and it stops short of paradox. Nevertheless, such is the state of Star Trek in cinemas since 2016, and the release of the third opus, which was less liked than the previous two, signed a disappointing score, even if it is not too far from them at the global box office. office.

At $343.5 million, it was certainly a little short of the JJ Abrams signing ($380.7 million in 2009) and falls short of the record set by Star Trek Into Darkness (airing this Tuesday, May 30 on NRJ 12) . Its 467.4 mln. The fourth movie is quickly mentioned though… and that’s where Enterprise stops.

In April 2018, Spock Zachary Quinto’s interpreter stated that three scenarios were developing. Four, if you add in the project of Quentin Tarantino, who after his aborted Casino Royale wants to put his paw on another iconic pop culture franchise. The director of Pulp Fiction doesn’t know it yet, but it’s not going to happen.

If everything seems difficult at first, then it will not work out. The first woman to direct an episode, SJ Clarkson is stepping down after her Game of Thrones episodes came under fire. Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo) is also developing the project independently, but it’s ending in August 2020, in the midst of Covid, and one of the reasons given is the script revolving around the deadly virus.

one step forward…

Fans who were promised a reunion between Chris Pine (Kirk) and Chris Hemsworth (his father’s interpreter in the opening scene of Star Trek in 2009) are in for a treat thanks to the magic of time travel. But they console themselves with the small screen, where various series (Discovery, Picard, Strange New Worlds) allow the franchise to remain active.

However, Paramount keeps the date (June 9, 2023) and in January 2022 comes the news that fans didn’t expect: the new film will definitely see the light of day and the actors are in place after signing the reboot. JJ Abrams will be back. A statement that surprised many people… starting with the actors themselves, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter a few days later.

… three steps back

Enough to bother the feature film, which after a few months lost director Matt Shakman, who left for Marvel to make The Fantastic 4, after filming the first and final seasons of WandaVision. To date, no one has filled the vacancy (although the MCU feature has since been pushed back), leaving the venture in the garage.

But fans of a saga like Star Trek, which has been going on since 1966, know very well that there is no point in despair and that nothing is finished in the world created by Gene Roddenberry. Who would have thought, for example, that the franchise would make a successful return to cinema? Or that Patrick Stewart will reprise his role as Jean-Luc Picard?