STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN Director Pitched a New STAR TREK Film to Paramount
It was recently reported that Paramount Pictures hired Star Trek: Discovery writer Kalinda Vasquez to write a script for a potential new Star Trek movie. Well, Nicholas Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, is also trying to work his way back into the franchise.
After pitching a new Star Trek series that focuses on Khan Noonien Singh's days stranded on Ceti Alpha V, Meyer tells Trek Movie that he and Steven-Charles Jaffe, who worked together on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, put together a pitch for a new Star Trek movie. He’s already taken that pitch to Alex Kurtzman, J.J. Abrams, and Emma Watts at Paramount Pictures. He says:
"My partner Steven-Charles Jaffe and I wrote a whole treatment and plan for a Star Trek feature film. We didn’t write a whole script. We wrote a very detailed treatment and a whole pitch doc with illustrations. It’s a very comprehensive thing. And we first we took it to Alex Kurtzman, then we took it to J.J. [Abrams], and then we took it to Emma Watts at Paramount."
Meyer didn’t offer any details on the story, but he did reveal that the film fills in a gap in the franchise and it could lead to more stories, including a possible series that follows up on the events of the film. It was also clarified that the movie is not a rework of his Khan series pitch. He goes on to say:
"It was a detailed proposal for what could have been a film, or it could have been a series, or it could have been a film leading to a series or a series leading to a film… It could be a series of films. Yeah, absolutely. This was an independent piece of the Star Trek universe based on holes in the chronology, which would allow for the insertion of original material."
Meyer’s The Wrath of Khan is, in my opinion, still the best Star Trek movie that has been made. I would love to see Meyer get a chance to help make another Star Trek movie, so I hope that the producers and studio will give him the opportunity.