What I imagine is not a surprise to anyone, but word on the street is that the fourth installment of the STAR TREK movie franchise has been shelved indefinitely.<\/p>\n
The timeline is a little murky, but there was hope with a strong 4th<\/sup> entry into Kelvin-verse with the announcement of S.J. Clarkson being announced as the director for the movie. That in it of itself was a milestone, as she would be the first woman in the franchise\u2019s long history to direct a STAR TREK movie.<\/p>\n But recently it\u2019s been announced by HBO that Clarkson has been tapped to direct the GAME OF THRONES prequel series that\u2019s currently in development at the network. That in it of itself left many wondering what happened to her calendar that suddenly gave her bandwidth to helm a television series.<\/p>\n To add harm to injury, it\u2019s no secret that negotiations fell apart between Paramount and stars Chris Pine, and Chris Hemsworth. The latter having been teased to make a return as Captain Kirk\u2019s dad in the sequel, because, let\u2019s be honest, if there\u2019s anything STAR TREK does well, it\u2019s time-travel.<\/p>\n As for why negotiations fell apart? Sounds like after the less than stellar performance of STAR TREK: BEYOND<\/strong><\/a> at the box office, the studio was looking at every opportunity to cut the budget for a fourth outing, which included the stars\u2019 payday on the movie.<\/p>\n So between those two instances, news outlets have been reporting the assumption that the fourth movie is no more. I can only imagine because DISCOVERY\u2019s premiere is coming up, they wanted to get the theories in.<\/p>\n But regardless, there doesn\u2019t seem to be any official announcement from Paramount at this time regarding the topic, so I personally remain hopeful that \u201cshelved\u201d doesn\u2019t mean \u201ccancelled\u201d.<\/p>\n Though in this business, you just never know.<\/p>\n But as a life-long Trekker (yes, \u201cer\u201d, not \u201cee\u201d), I do hope we\u2019ll see Pine and company on the bridge for at least one more outing.<\/p>\n What are your thoughts about the prospect of the movie being shelved? Let me know on the FUZZYBUG Facebook Page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Sources: SyFy Wire<\/a><\/strong>, Forbes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What I imagine is not a surprise to anyone, but word on the street is that the fourth installment of the STAR TREK movie franchise has been shelved indefinitely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[139,516,517,193,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-2165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"category-ramblings","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-kelvin-verse","11":"tag-paramount-pictures","12":"tag-star-trek","13":"tag-star-trek-4","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}