Star Trek Prequel Overtakes Star Trek 4, X-Men Producer Simon Kinberg Taking Over Next Movie
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Summary Simon Kinberg in talks to lead Star Trek movie franchise, focusing on origin movie release in 2025.
Paramount looks to Kinberg as franchise shepherd for futuer Trek projects, with a potential reboot in store.
Puck's newsletter delves into Paramount's future amid parent company sale, hints at franchise changes.
It's being reported that former X-Men producer Simon Kinberg is in negotiations to take over the Star Trek movie franchise, and the upcoming origin movie will be his first priority. As Star Trek goes from strength to strength on the small screen, the big screen adventures of the starship Enterprise have stalled since 2016's Star Trek Beyond. With a new Star Trek origin movie already confirmed by Paramount for release in 2025, a new report has emerged that Simon Kinberg, best known for producing Fox's X-Men movies, could soon take over as head of the Star Trek franchise.
The most recent edition of Puck's What I'm Hearing newsletter contains a deep dive into the state of play at Paramount Pictures amid the ongoing process of selling its parent company. The report contains some fascinating information about what the upcoming Star Trek origin movie means for Star Trek 4, and reveals the contract negotiations for Simon Kinberg to come aboard and lead the franchise. Read the full quote from What I'm Hearing below:
And I’m told Simon Kinberg, the prolific producer of X-Men and other Fox-Marvel movies, is negotiating to join Star Trek as its new steward in film. If his deal closes, Kinberg will technically produce just the prequel being directed by Toby Haynes (Andor) and written by Seth Grahame-Smith. But since Star Trek 4 has script and schedule issues with that famous (and expensive) cast, the prequel will likely shoot in early 2025 and could very well end up as a reboot. Plus, Paramount sees Kinberg as a franchise shepherd à la Alex Kurtzman for Trek TV projects, even though J.J. Abrams remains as a producer. Whether that new film is a Paramount or Sony release remains a question to be answered by Shari Redstone, of course, but the studio’s other suitor, Skydance, does retain its option to co-finance and produce the Kinberg Trek movie."
Source: Puck's What I'm Hearing
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