New Star Trek Movie Hits Warp Speed With Dungeons & Dragons Directors
A brand-new Star Trek movie is currently on the way from Jonathan Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, directors of Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves directors.
Now that J.J. Abrams' Star Trek continuity has been retired, Paramount Pictures is boldly going in a new direction.
That is to say Jonathan Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein—the directorial duo behind Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves—have been tapped to oversee a fresh take on the iconic sci-fi material created by Gene Rodenberry. In addition to writing and directing, the filmmakers will produce via their GoldDay banner, Deadline reported Nov. 14.
Daley confirmed the news on his X (formerly Twitter) account the very same day with a pair of Vulcan "live long and prosper" emojis.
Goldstein also celebrated the announcement, tweeting: "Could not be more excited and honored."
The pair are also known for their screenwriting work on Horrible Bosses, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Vacation, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Vacation Friends. Their next movie, Mayday (an action-adventure piece starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh), will be released by Apple and Skydance sometime in the near future.
What will Jonathan Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein's Star Trek movie be about?
It's still too early to tell, considering the news only just broke. With that said, the traditional emphasis on Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Lt. Uhura, and the rest of the USS Enterprise has prompted Daley and Goldstein to go where no Trek film has gone before.
The movie will be "completely new," Deadline wrote, "and not connected to any previous or current television series, movie or prior movie development projects."
“One of our biggest priorities is restoring Paramount as the No. 1 destination for the most talented artists and filmmakers in the world,” Skydance head honcho David Ellison said shortly after merging with Paramount (via The Hollywood Reporter). “Great filmmakers make great movies.”
Even though fans haven't gotten a theatrical Star Trek movie in almost a decade, Paramount has kept the United Federation of Planets alive through a number of successful TV shows aimed at a wide range of audiences: Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, Strange New Worlds, and Starfleet Academy.
As THR reported over the summer, however, the executives at Paramount Skydance plan to move away from that model by taking a more "holistic" approach to the IP—as opposed to treating it as two separate entities between film and television.
“We’re going to make sure those conversations are happening together," noted Dana Goldberg (co-head of the features division alongside Josh Greenstein), "so that we can do what’s best for the brand as a whole."
