New ‘Star Trek’ Movie in the Works at Paramount from ‘Andor’ Director

After years of stops and starts, is making a step towards returning to the big screen. Toby Haynes, who directed episodes of , will helm a new feature, with Seth Grahame Smith writing. The plot is said to take place decades before the events of 2009’s , which J.J. Abrams helmed. Abrams’ Bad Robot will produce the movie, which the studio is describing as an expansion of its universe.

has largely lived in the world of TV and streaming in recent years, where Paramount+ has a number of shows, including , , the animated and , which wrapped last year. , the most recent film, hit theaters in 2016 and starred Chris Pine as Captain Kirk, the role he first played in 2009’s . Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldaña, John Cho and the late Anton Yelchin starred.

Paramount is still developing a fourth to feature that cast and described as the final chapter for them. Paramount has spent years figuring out a new big screen take for . In 2016, it announced a to star Chris Hemsworth (who played Kirk’s father in the 2009 film) alongside Pine’s Enterprise crew.

That film never came to fruition, and filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and Noah Hawley took stabs at developing their own, unrelated takes. During a Paramount investor’s day in February 2022, producer Abrams made the surprise announcement a new installment was in the works with the Pine led crew, a move that .

‘s Matt Shakman was on board to direct, but departed in August 2022 to take on for Marvel Studios. Smith, known as the author of and the scribe behind features such as , is repped by WME and attorneys PJ Shapiro and Wendy Kirk. This would mark the first feature for Haynes, who helmed the dark, celebrated inspired episode of , “USS Callister.” He is repped by WME and attorney Peter Nelson.

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