Big list of cancelled AOS/Kelvin Universe Star Trek movies
Did you know that for the 3 Star Trek movies we got, five went unmade? Here's what they were about:
Star Trek Into Oblivion
Cancelled in favour of what became Star Trek Beyond, this was to be Roberto Orci's directorial debut. Written by Orci, alongside JD Payne and Patrick McKay. Vulcans, humans and a new alien race called the Annunaki vie for an artifact with the power to save Vulcan, Spock's mother Amanda and reset the timeline. Enil, the Annunaki villain believed the Kelvin universe an abomination and wanted to use the device to reform the universe in his own image. It got as far as location scouting, casting (Bryan Cranston was to play Enil, McCoy's ex-wife and a female Federation president would have featured too) and concept art (the baddie ship is controlled from comfy looking sun loungers). William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were to cameo, but sources conflict on whether they were their Primeverse selves or playing older versions of Pine and Quinto's characters.
Written by Ashley Miller and Roberto Orci, and again was pitched prior to Star Trek Beyond. Rogue Romulans get hold of a Doomsday Machine and cause chaos. The Enterprise crew team up with goodie Romulans to stop it. Carol Marcus is pregnant and Kirk is doubting his future in Starfleet. Shock ending where Klingons storm and take over Starfleet HQ, and their leader removes his helmet to reveal... Benedict Cumberbatch's Khan Noonien Singh!
Star Trek 4
Co-written by Patrick McKay and JD Payne and to be directed by SJ Clarkson, this is the one JJ Abrams announced prior to the release of Star Trek Beyond. Something sci-fi happens and James T. Kirk gets to meet his father George Kirk, and they go on an adventure together. Some speculate this is the Into Oblivion story, but rewritten to have George Kirk in place of William Shatner's Kirk. Negotiations to bring back Pine and Hemsworth fell apart when Paramount tried to renegotiate lower fees after Beyond underperformed at the box office.
Pulp Fiction Trek
The Tarantino one. Written by Mark L. Smith, with Quinten Tarantino producing. Chris Pine's Kirk, William Shatner's Kirk and Patrick Stewart's Picard in Pulp Fiction-style intertwining stories possibly involving Sigma Iotia II (the gangster planet from TOS). Went quiet and vanished for reasons unknown.
Space Pandemic
Noah Hawley's Star Trek movie would have featured a new cast (although tied into or spun off of Kelvinverse characters or events in some way) battling a pandemic ravaging the galaxy. Real life got in the way and pandemics suddenly stopped being entertaining fantasy material putting this script into indefinite stasis.
You are assuming that Nero knows how events are predicted to unfold. The contrary, Nero’s very presence has altered the flow of history, beginning with the attack on the U.S.S. Kelvin, culminating in the events of today, thereby creating an entire new chain of incidents that cannot be anticipated by either party.
Been thinking a lot about AOS Jim meeting TOS Jim. The (poorly drawn) vulcan script is T’hy’la and Ashayam, from necklaces by the lovely @anifanatical !!
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