More likely it's some small spinoff or related media project.
I wonder what sort of stuff he could do. I think it's likely that the project is a 4K remaster of The Undiscovered Country or a similar gig, but the fanboy in me can't help reading more into Meyer's wording and hope it's, like, some streaming movie set during the Lost Era or post-DS9 or something. Ha.
Trek probably has to scale back from AAA Blockbuster status if it wants to survive.
I hope this is an option the new CEO is seriously considering, but I share the doubts of some of our fellow commenters. I'm hard-pressed to imagine industry execs approving an $80 million space opera movie franchise this day and age.
As a trek fan beyond was pretty much everything I wanted from a st09 sequel. It more than 09 and especally the shit that was into darkness actually felt like real trek, like a 2hr TOS ep with a budget.
Right. And that's really how Beyond is, from what I remember. I was in one of the worst points of my life when it came out last year, so I intend to rewatch it soon because there's a ton I can't remember. Mental block, ahoy, haha. But I do recall it feeling like a two-part TOS episode for modern audiences. The trouble is, and I kinda agree with that Forbes article I linked earlier, it doesn't really seem like domestic audiences care to show up in droves for such things.
I gotta wonder why international audiences will never, ever care about Star Trek. What I wouldn't give to make China show up for it. That would turn the movies into Pirates 5 sized successes; a ~$680-$800 million accomplishment for Star Trek Beyond would have had Star Trek 4 shooting now, lol. Instead... $340 million.
Star Trek Online had some great ideas for post TNG Trek, but the execution was something leaving desire. It felt more fan fiction or left to the interns.
Still, with real writers I could see the stories being adapted into a solid 6-7 season run that focused on the fallout of Hobus, a Romulan civil war, and the return of the Iconians. Plenty of stories to be told in that universe that mirror our problems right now with societies turning inward after experiencing shocks, terrorism taking route, refugee crisis, and in the end an enemy and common threat that they have to put down their difference to unite to save the Galaxy.
I haven't played Star Trek Online, as I've never been able to get into MMOs, but I have followed the novelverse to some extent. It's interesting that there are kind of these two separate post-DS9 continuations going on, with two sets of ongoing stories. Either one could work as source material, or both.
The Wrath of Khan and Undiscovered Country are the two best Trek movies. Meyer is riding on a 30 year old reputation and whether the studio or the current production climate and his level of involvement play out is up in the air.
If Meyer is attached to a Beyond sequel ... or whether whatever sequel that had Chris Hemsworth attached to return as George Kirk still goes through, I don't know how much you're going to get or salvage out of a film series three movies in trying not to be anything like previous incarnations of Star Trek.
I'm indifferent and cautious about writers and directors from the 70s-80s coming back to their respective franchises.
It depends on the level of involvement. Star Wars fans got excited when Lawrence Kasdan was attached to The Force Awakens and is writing the screenplay for the Han Solo film.
Ridley Scott returned to Alien with Prometheus and Covenant with mixed reception. Hampton Fancher returned for the Blade Runner sequel as a screenwriter.
George Miller came back in spades with Mad Max.
Yeah, I don't know. I love what Kasdan and Miller have been doing, at least. My apathy toward Scott is mostly just out of not caring about the Alien franchise; I'm not much for horror.
I really wonder if that Hemsworth sequel is happening. Between Paramount restructuring and Beyond uunderperforming, it's anyone's guess.
