In a just lately revealed Esquire interview with Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, the pair for the primary time shed new gentle on their plans for a beforehand canceled Star Trek 4 movie set within the Kelvin Timeline. The movie had been in growth with director S. J. Clarkson (Dexter, Ugly Betty) however ultimately, after the scripting section, all information in regards to the mission slowed to a crawl earlier than ending fully.

Until this interview, all that was actually recognized in regards to the film was Chris Hemsworth was to return as Captain Kirk’s father. “The conceit was that by a cosmic quirk within the Star Trek world, they have been the identical age” mentioned McKay. “It was going to be a grand father-son area adventure–think Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in area.”

The film was to function an authentic villain with a “actually cool 2001: A Space Odyssey-esque sci-fi concept on the core.” The writing pair teamed with Lindey Weber, who can also be now an govt producer on Rings of Power, however the film simply “fell aside.”

In the interview, Payne additionally revealed how Chris Pine’s Captain Jim Kirk involves wind up interacting with Hemsworth’s George Kirk. “There’s an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation referred to as Relics the place they discover Scotty, who’s been trapped on a transporter for a few many years, and so they’re capable of have a cool journey with him,” Payne mentioned. “What if proper earlier than the Kelvin impacted with that vast mining ship, George Kirk had tried to beam himself over to his spouse’s shuttle the place his son, Jim Kirk, had simply been born? And what if the ship hadn’t fully exploded–what if it left some area junk?”

Adds McKay, “The journey is that Chris Pine and the crew of the Enterprise have to hunt out the wreckage of the ship that his father died on due to a thriller and a brand new villain. In the ship, they stumble throughout his father’s sample. They beam him out and he has no concept that no time has handed in any respect, and that he is his son. Then the journey goes from there.”

A brand new Star Trek movie set within the Kelvin Timeline is to enter manufacturing later this yr.