Star Trek 4 is still in development, CONFIRMS writer

Star Trek 4 writer Lindsey Anderson Beer has confirmed that the movie is still in development.

The Star Trek reboot in 2009 was a critical and commercial success, but the next two movies did not receive as positive a response from fans and critics.

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A fourth movie was announced in 2022, with Matt Shakman stepping into the director's chair. However, he would later leave the project to direct a new Fantastic Four movie for Marvel which sent the production into no man's land.

Beer was then selected to step in as writer/director, but she had to finish her other project, Pet Semetary: Bloodlines, first.

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The WGA strike in the United States also meant that she was prohibited from working on Star Trek 4, but with the strike likely to end soon, work can commence.

"It's still on the tracks," she told Collider.

"I love that project, and it was another one that I had to hop off of to direct this movie, and that was a hard thing to do.

"But I love that everybody involved with that project."

Chris Pine in the dark about Star Trek 4

Chris Pine reckons there are a number of factors that have led him to feel the movie is "cursed".

"After the last one came out and didn’t do the $1 billion that everybody wanted it to do, and then Anton, passed away, I don’t know, it just seemed. It feels like it's cursed," he said in an interview with Esquire.

"In Star Trek land, the actors are usually the last people to find out anything. I know costume designers that have read scripts before the actors."

Pine is adamant that he and his acting colleagues from the previous three movies are all eager to return, but bemoans the lack of communication that they are provided when it comes to the development of Star Trek 4.

"I would say it’s frustrating," he added.

"It doesn’t really foster the greatest sense of partnership, but it’s how it’s always been. I love the character. I love the people. I love the franchise. But to try to change the system in which things are created – I just can’t do it. I don’t have the energy."