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By Akhil Arora | Updated: 20 November 2019 11:27 IST

Star Trek 4: Noah Hawley Said to Be in Talks to Write and Direct Next Movie

Photo Credit: Kimberley French/Paramount Pictures, Gage Skidmore k5r5q

Chris Pine in Star Trek Beyond; (inset) Noah Hawley

Highlights

Star Trek 4 was all but dead at start of the year
Hawley’s film is different from Quentin Tarantino’s idea
Trek not a big earner on big screen, despite big budgets

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The Star Trek film universe isn't dead after all. Noah Hawley — best known for creating and writing the anthology series Fargo, and the superhero drama Legion — is reportedly in final talks to be hired as the writer and director on Star Trek 4, which will continue the Trek reboot film series started by J.J. Abrams in 2009. Hawley and Abrams will produce the as-yet untitled Star Trek movie through their respective production banners, 26 Keys and Bad Robot. Hawley's Star Trek is separate from the one being developed by Quentin Tarantino, which was the only Trek movie on the slate prior to this revival.

Paramount Pictures — which holds the Trek film licence — would need to convince Pine to return if they wish to continue the story.

Pine wasn't the only one involved in those negotiations, with Chris Hemsworth — who was to return as the father of Pine's Captain Kirk from J.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot — also turning down the offer. In May this year, Hemsworth claimed he “wasn't sold on the script” and added: “I didn't feel like we landed on a reason to revisit that yet. I didn't want to be underwhelmed by what I was going to bring to the table.” But with Hawley now coming on board as the new writer, it remains to be seen if his version of Star Trek 4 will even have a place for Hemsworth's character.

Trek's troubles on the big screen largely have to do with the fact that it's not a big earner. Despite budgets resembling what is spent on the likes of Disney regularly makes upwards of $700 million with Marvel and Star Wars.

In addition to Fargo and Legion, respectively based on the Coen brothers' film and the Marvel comic book character, Hawley has co-written and directed Lucy in the Sky — his feature-length directorial debut — starring Natalie Portman and Jon Hamm. He is also a best-selling author in the US, having published five novels, one of which has been acquired by Emmy for his work on Fargo.

Noah Hawley photo by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

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