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00:00You'll remember quite recently that the Variety Trade Report that was released on the 4th of
00:04November pretty much confirmed the fact that there wasn't going to be a 4th Kelvin film,
00:10or at least a film featuring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana, made by Paramount.
00:16This is in the wake of all of the changes that new CEO David Ellison has been making in his
00:23brief time at Paramount, the Skydance Corporation. Paramount as Skydance Corporation, the merger,
00:28basically Paramount and Skydance. You know the story at this stage. Well, the big story today
00:33is that Deadline has reported that Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daly have been hired
00:41by Paramount to write and direct a new Star Trek film. My very first reaction straight away,
00:51not a surprise that there's a Star Trek film on the way. I'm really not surprised by that.
00:54Paramount have made quite a bit of noise about upping their theatrical output now over the
01:01next few years. So news of a Star Trek film, completely inevitable in my opinion. When we
01:06heard that Star Trek 4, I'm going to say Kelvin's Star Trek 4 wasn't happening, to me it was a
01:11question
01:11of, right, what will it be instead? Not if we will get one. There is one little thing. Now, obviously,
01:19you're going to have to wait for official sources and for, you know, proper press releases in that
01:24respect, but it seems as though their take is going to be unconnected to any existing Star Trek film or
01:36television series. You may commence lighting your pitchforks and pyres. Lighting your pitchforks? So
01:43I'm feeling quite mixed about this because, you know, before I say anything else, I want to say
01:48that these guys, they have a pretty good track record. They wrote Spider-Man Homecoming, which I
01:53really enjoyed, and they also directed the recent Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves, which I had
01:59a great time with in the cinema. I've watched it again since. It's actually a film I really, really
02:04enjoyed. Also featuring Chris Pine. So I like that kind of humour. I like that kind of style. I'd say
02:15I quite enjoy that. The idea of that kind of style being included in Star Trek, no worries as far
02:21as
02:21I'm concerned. I'm on board with that. And we know Star Trek can do humour very, very well. Look at
02:27Lower
02:27Decks. Look at, I mean, look at so many, really. Look at some of the stronger episode of Strange New
02:32Worlds.
02:33Now, I don't want to dance around it. It's the fact that it's seemingly not connected to any other
02:37film or series. The fact that it's not connected to any other film worries me less. You know,
02:43we know at this stage that there's not going to be another Kelvin film. And also to connect it to
02:49the
02:49previous 10 films means, you know, if you're going to make it, you know, a sequel to Nemesis, that itself
02:56then would more or less make it, you know, at least within the realm of Lower Decks, Prodigy,
03:01Star Trek Picard. None of which I have a problem with. Obviously, that would be lovely. I would love
03:05that. Shows it on the big screen again. But in my heart of hearts, I don't see that happening.
03:11And the reason I don't see that happening is because of the lack of Star Trek legacy. I know
03:17you might be like, hang on, this news award has nothing about Star Trek legacy. And you're right,
03:21it doesn't. But if we look at the overall context of Star Trek over the last couple of years,
03:27and what we can perhaps assume is coming for the next couple of years, what I don't see now is
03:39taking the risk on connecting to those, those stories. And the reason I say risk is because,
03:47you know, you know, us, we will see this film, there's no question. It's a Star Trek film,
03:52of course, we're going to watch it. In a way, we're a safe audience. But in the era of increasing
03:58budgets,
03:59increasing just costs for everything, and a highly diluted market, I'm just putting my business hat
04:09on here. I understand the push to do something fresh and new, something that doesn't require
04:17any homework to watch. Now, listen to me carefully. That does not mean I'm sitting here going,
04:24brilliant, bin everything that came before, because I would be quite upset if that was the thing.
04:30These same sources, and again, now you must obviously say deadline has reported and deadline's
04:34got a pretty good track record. I will say that. But again, they themselves say sources. So I want
04:40you to take everything with a pinch of salt for the moment, right? So anything that seems confirmed,
04:45you know, it seems like Goldstein and Francis Daly are on board. But yeah, everything else is kind of
04:53up in the air, it's kind of in the realm of speculation. But, but one of these things that's being
04:57speculated is the fact that it will feature all new characters. There's another way of reading this.
05:03In a way, right, if you look at the next generation, with the exception of DeForest Kelly turning up in
05:11Encounter at Firepoint, for the most part, the next generation was with all new characters.
05:17Deep Space Nine, with the exception of Miles O'Brien moving over for a time, it was all new characters.
05:25So if it's as simple as that, it's a Star Trek universe that just features a new ship and new
05:31characters. Well, that's just what we've gotten nearly every time that we've got a new Star Trek.
05:35DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds. Yes, I know Strange New Worlds itself is kind
05:41of a spin-off of The Cage and you had Spock and everything. But, but do you see what I
05:45mean?
05:47Having something feature new characters, having something be fresh, not necessarily
05:54laden with having to carry the story of the next generation, Deep Space Nine, or even,
05:59you know, because we've no idea when it might be set. It could be set around the time of Starfleet
06:04Academy. It could be set around the time of Enterprise. We don't know. We know as well that there has
06:09been,
06:09as far as, as far as I know, the, this Star Trek Origins movie, but, you know, connected with Seth
06:15Graham Smith and Toby Haynes, as far as I know, that, that's still on a slate. It might not be.
06:19But if it is, that was rumoured to be at least connected to a time before Enterprise. This is what
06:30this film could have transformed to become. And if it was, you have a pretty clean slate. You know,
06:35I know then that, you know, like we run into the prequel issue of, you know, is it in a
06:40prime
06:40timeline? Is it in an alternate timeline? How's it going to affect the stories that have already
06:45been told? I remember having that worry watching Star Trek 09, but at least they confirmed that it
06:51was in an alternate timeline. Great, cool. So everything still happened and we can enjoy a new
06:54thing. You know, the stickler in me is that if we are going to enjoy a new take on The
06:59Final Frontier,
06:59maybe I would like it to be in its own universe. I am not opposed to the idea of a
07:06sort of a blank
07:07slate take. As long as it doesn't say nothing mattered before. That now would get my back up.
07:17I think it would get a lot of people's back up. But if you're telling me it's in a side
07:20universe
07:21altogether, happy out. That's no problem. That just means more stories for us all to tell.
07:26Now, as it stands, these two filmmakers are in pretty big demand. You know, Dungeons and Dragons
07:32did very well at the box office. Spider-Man Homecoming, come on, it's, you know, it's a Disney
07:35Marvel. That did pretty well. And their recent film, according to Deadline, called Mayday, starring
07:41Ryan Reynolds, who, oh, I don't know, you might have heard of. Apparently that's tested very, very well.
07:46That would make them a pretty good set of people to run a new project if their track record is
07:55to
07:55be believed. What I would like to see, obviously, as soon as we can is a little bit of, well,
08:02a little
08:02bit of teasing the plot, teasing the setting. I am sure, I am sure that we are going to see
08:08things that
08:09we both really like and potentially really don't as time goes on. You know, if they've just been
08:16brought on board to helm this project, it's very unlikely we're going to see anything really
08:22substantially before 2027, possibly 2028, depending on the size of the project. Because we don't know,
08:29are they going to go for a slightly smaller sci-fi Star Trek project where it's kind of less gamble,
08:36less pressure, I guess? Or do they go for, no, let's go whopper, big budget, a bit like the motion
08:45picture was, and certainly like Trek 09 was, both of which saw returns. Motion picture's budget ended
08:51up kind of eating into its returns, but it actually did very well at the box office. And Trek 09
08:56did
08:57very well at the box office. But Star Trek is not a franchise that needs to be a multi-multi
09:02-multi-million
09:03dollar franchise, or certainly budgets, to do well. You know what I mean? Like we know this,
09:09like some of the television series are among the best that we've seen. They've done amazing things
09:13on TV now. Episodes cost the same that small indie films cost in the 80s, you know what I mean?
09:19There's a lot that you can do today that is quite different from back then. This is going to be
09:26in the
09:26world of wild speculation for quite some time to come. Because as I say, I mean, this is two people
09:33have been approached to do a job. That's pretty much what Deadline has reported today. That could
09:39mean anything. Who knows? You know, a year could go by before we hear anything else. Although with the
09:45speed that Ellison's Paramount has been releasing bits of news and teasing things, I think that we are
09:54more likely to see more information sooner than perhaps would normally be the case.
10:01Whatever else is going on at Paramount, they clearly are trying to establish themselves as one of the
10:07major names in the business again. Paramount is not a young company, but it had slipped a little bit
10:15in recent years in terms of its standing. Ellison, for one, seems to be doing his absolute damnedest to
10:22push that back up again. A lot of which has not been received very, very well. We've covered this
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11:39It remains to be seen what this film will look like if and when it arrives in theatres. As you
11:46know,
11:46as we get news, we will bring it to you. I want to thank everyone who has linked this deadline
11:51article
11:51to me. I want to thank everyone who was watching this video, and I want to thank you all for
11:54your
11:55continued support of this channel in this very strange, uncertain time for Star Trek.
12:01Until I see you again, make sure that you live long and prosper, my friends. I will talk to you
12:05soon.
12:05Thanks very much.
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