Wrath of Khan Director's New Star Trek Trilogy Is On Hold

Nicholas Meyer has revealed a few more detail about his mysteryStar Trekproject . Meyer directedStar Trek II : The Wrath of Khanin 1982 and , even 36 years later , the pic is still considered one of the best ( if notthebest)Star Trekmoves ever made . He went on to cowroteStar Trek IV : The Voyage Homeand directStar Trek IV : The Undiscovered Country- two of the more beloved films feature the Original Series casting - in the year that followed . For these intellect , Trekkies were stimulate when Meyer sign up to serve as a consulting manufacturer on CBS All - Access’Star Trek : Discovery , back when Bryan Fuller was the showrunner .

About a year ago , Meyer revealed he was alsoworking on a newStar Trekprojectseparate fromDiscovery . He did n’t proffer any details beyond that at the time , giving ascent to rumors that Meyer was working ona circumscribed serial publication about ( who else ? ) Khan Noonien Singh . Meyer has now confirmed that theStar Trekproject in interrogative sentence is meant for CBS All Access , but has been put on time lag until further notification .

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During a Q&A at the University of California , Irvine , Meyer was asked by a member of the audience if he was work on aStar Treklimited serial or miniseries as rumored . He specifically referred to the mystery project as being a"trilogy " , but did n’t particularise if Khan is a part of it or not . Moreover , Meyer expose that the current effectual fight between CBS and Viacom / Paramount has left the projection in limbo for the fourth dimension being . Here ’s a copy of the interchange ( perTrekCore ):

AUDIENCE QUESTION : A while back there were reports that you might be mould on a ‘ Star Trek ’ miniseries , is there any the true to that , if you ’re allowed to say anything about that ?

MEYER : No , I can say something . I was engage to publish a stand - alone ‘ Star Trek’-related trilogy , [ item of which ] I ca n’t discuss or I ’d have to kill you . [ Laughs ] I was compose it for CBS [ All ] approach … but at the moment CBS is at a state of war with Paramount / Viacom [ about merging ] . They ’re in a power conflict which turned really nasty this retiring week when CBS make up one’s mind to sue Viacom . So I do n’t reckon my project is going anywhere in a haste , because everything is on hold while they sort out this uniting business . That ’s my news report and I ’m stickin ’ to it .

For those unfamiliar : CBS hold the TV rights toStar Trek , whereas Viacom / Paramount handles the movie rights . It sounds like Meyer ’s undertaking could be a trilogy of film designed for CBS ' cyclosis service ( so , fundamentally , TV movies ) and would require them to re - merge in parliamentary law to move onward . With the two companies in a sound struggle , that leaves Meyer’sStar Trektrilogy up the brook without a paddle until thing determine down .

Star Trek ’s theatrical picture show slate is in a likewise peculiar berth at the moment . Star Trek 4 , aka . the ignoble fourth movie in theStar Trekreboot serial publication ( or Kelvin Timeline ) , has foundits director in S.J. Clarkson , yet has neither a concrete start date or release target right now . Meanwhile , aStar Trekmovie scriptbased on an idea from Quentin Tarantinois presently being written , but little is know about the film beyond that . thing are gratefully calm when it add up toStar TrekTV , withfilming onDiscoveryseason 2now afoot . Here ’s to hoping Meyer ’s intriguing " trilogy " start out moving forward again too , earlier rather than afterwards .