Star Trek 4 writers on how Chris Hemsworth would have returned

Just before the release of Star Trek BeyondThis was announced by JJ Abrams Star Trek 4 was already in the works and would bring back Chris Hemsworth as George Kirk, the father of Chris Pines James Kirk. JD Payne and Patrick McKay signed on to write the screenplay, with SJ Clarkson set to direct, but the project was shelved when negotiations with Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth fell through. While there have been others star trek Projects in development since then, it seems that the one with Chris Hemsworth is really dead, so the writers might as well give the beans a go.

After leaving Star Trek 4JD Payne and Patrick McKay developed further The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power for Amazon. The couple spoke recently esquire around The Rings of Powerbut they were also asked about their plans Star Trek 4.

The one you are asking about would have been the fourth in the franchise to reunite Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pine. The imagination was that by a cosmic peculiarity in the star trek World, they were the same age. It was going to be a grand father-son space adventure – you think Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in space. We really loved it. We had an original villain and a really cool one 2001: A Space Odyssey-esque sci-fi idea at its core.

The authors worked on it for “two and a half years‘ before eventually falling apart in what Patrick McKay dubbed ‘Heart pain.“For what Star Trek 4 was about and how Chris Hemsworth would have returned, JD Payne was referring to an episode of The next generation which brought back Scotty, who had been trapped in a van for decades. It seems they would have used a similar plot device to bring George Kirk back. “Our conceit was, ‘What if, just before the Kelvin crashed into this giant mining ship, George Kirk had tried to beam himself to his wife’s shuttle, where his son, Jim Kirk, had just been born?‘ Payne explained. “And what if the ship hadn’t completely exploded – what if it had left space debris behind?’ Remember that when you send a text message and you typed it but didn’t quite click send. On the other side, they see these three little dots that someone typed. It’s as if the transporter took its pattern into the pattern buffer but didn’t spit it out the other side. It was actually a saved copy of him that was on the computer.“

McKay added: “Chris Pine and the crew of the company must search the wreck of the ship where his father died because of a mystery and a new villain. In the ship, they come across his father’s pattern. They beam him out and he doesn’t realize that no time has passed at all and he’s looking at his son. Then the adventure goes from there.“As for what’s next star trek Film with Chris Pines crew, that’s in the air again. The film had a 2023 release date and was scheduled to be directed by WandaVision‘s Matt Shakman, but he left to direct Fantastic Four for Marvel and Paramount have dropped the project from their schedules. Maybe one day.

What do you think of the original plan to bring back Chris Hemsworth for Star Trek 4? Do you still want to see the film?