JJ Abrams to provide new ‘Star Trek’ film
By ANI
WASHINGTON: A brand new ‘Star Trek’ film is within the works with director-producer J.J. Abrams hooked up to bankroll the venture.
As per Variety, ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ co-executive producer Kalinda Vazquez is about to write down the script for the upcoming film for Paramount Pictures. Once the venture goes on flooring, Vazquez will change into the primary lady to write down a ‘Star Trek’ characteristic.
There are not any particulars but on the character of Vazquez’s strategy, together with whether or not it will embrace any beforehand established ‘Star Trek’ characters. But Vazquez is just not new to ‘Star Trek’ writing. Earlier, she has written episodes for the Trek TV collection that stream on Paramount Plus.
In 2019, she wrote ‘Ask Not’, an episode of ‘Star Trek: Short Treks’ through which Capt. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) exams a Starfleet cadet. In 2020, Vazquez wrote the teleplay for ‘Terra Firma, Part 2’, an episode of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ set nearly fully within the Mirror Universe.
Along together with her work on ‘Trek’ and ‘Fear the Walking Dead’, Vazquez has written on episodes of ‘Runaways’, ‘Once Upon a Time’ and ‘Nikita’. She can be at present writing a Marvel comics run about America Chavez, the primary Latinx LBGTQ Marvel superhero to get their very own title collection. She is reportedly additionally creating an adaptation of the sci-fi novel ‘Roadmarks’ for HBO with George R.R. Martin.
Vazquez’s ‘Star Trek’ venture is the newest in a string of ‘Trek’ options nonetheless beneath improvement at Paramount. In 2017, Quentin Tarantino partnered with Abrams and Bad Robot on a potential characteristic finally written by Mark L. Smith although Tarantino’s dedication to direct the venture seems tenuous at greatest.
In August final yr, Paramount additionally determined to pause work on a ‘Star Trek’ characteristic from writer-director Noah Hawley, after Emma Watts stepped in as studio president. Hawley advised Variety that his venture would ‘begin from scratch’ with a brand new set of characters who’ve an specific hyperlink to the established ‘Trek’ canon.