Star Trek 4 Is Moving Forward; Chris Pine And The Rest Of The Original Cast Set To Return

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The latest Star Trek film — Star Trek: Beyond — has been released in 2016. Now, six years later (now I feel old), Paramount is finally moving forward with the fourth installment of this reboot series that kicked off in 2009 with the movie Star Trek, directed by J.J. Abrams and starring Chris Pine.

As Variety reported, J.J. Abrams made the announcement on Paramount Investors Day that Star Trek 4 is moving forward, with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho, and Simon Pegg all planned for a comeback.

“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 and some new characters that I think are going to be really fun and exciting and help take ‘Star Trek’ into areas that you’ve just never seen before. We’re thrilled about this film, we have a bunch of other stories that we’re talking about that we think will be really exciting, so can’t wait for you to see what we’re cooking up. But until then, live long and prosper.” — J.J. Abrams

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Abrams directed the original reboot movie which was released in 2009, and the sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, which was released in 2013. The threequel, directed by Fast & Furious director Justin Lin, was released in 2016. J.J. Abrams didn’t direct the threequel due to his work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was released a year before. Abrams is producing this upcoming fourth film, with Matt Shakman, known for the work on Marvel Disney+ series WandaVison, set to direct. Josh Friedman and Cameron Squires, who also worked on WandaVision, are serving as screenwriters.

In this reboot movie series, Chris Pine was playing James T. Kirk, Zachary Quinto played Spock, and Zoe Saldana took the role of Nyota Uhura. Star Trek Into Darkness is commercially the most successful film of the movie trilogy, with $467 million grossed worldwide, while the first movie and Beyond grossed $385 and $343 million, respectively.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.