The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy showrunners, JD Payne and Patrick McKay acquired their begin as writers on the 2016 film Star Trek Past. The pair had plans to put in writing a fourth Star Trek film that sadly acquired scrapped, however they sat down with Esquire to clarify to followers what it might have been about.
McKay started the dialog, explaining:
“I might like to let you know about it. We labored on a few Star Trek films. The one you’re asking about would have been the fourth within the franchise, reuniting Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pine. The self-esteem was that by a cosmic quirk within the Star Trek world, they have been the identical age. It was going to be a grand father-son house journey—suppose Indiana Jones and the Final Campaign in house. We have been actually thrilled about it. We had an unique villain and a extremely cool 2001: A House Odyssey-esque sci-fi thought on the core. We labored on it for 2 and half years with Lindsey Weber, our non-writing govt producer on Rings of Energy, and an incredible director, S.J. Clarkson. The film ultimately fell aside and it actually was a heartbreak for us. It’s a part of what led us right here, as a result of it acquired us pondering, ‘Gosh, with an enormous IP title, large film stars, and a narrative that all of us felt had the prospect to be terrific, it could not come collectively.’ We felt the winds have been shifting towards large films, which is a part of what made us begin taking TV significantly. That led us to Rings of Energy. However we might have cherished to make that film. I wish to spoil a chunk of it that is thrilling—how they find yourself collectively. Can we try this, JD?”
Payne responded, saying:
“Positive, why not? There’s an episode of Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology known as ‘Relics’ the place they discover Scotty, who’s been trapped a transporter for a few many years, they usually’re capable of have cool journey with him. Our conceit was, ‘What if proper earlier than the Kelvin impacted with that vast mining ship, George Kirk had tried to beam himself over to his spouse’s shuttle the place his son, Jim Kirk, had simply been born? And what if the ship hadn’t fully exploded—what if it left some house junk?’ Take into consideration while you ship a textual content message and also you’ve typed it out, however you have not fairly hit ship. On the opposite facet, they see these three little dots that somebody has typed. It’s just like the transporter had absorbed his sample up into the sample buffer, however hadn’t spit him out on the opposite facet. It was really a saved copy of him that was within the laptop.”
McKay added:
“So the journey is that Chris Pine and the crew of the Enterprise have to hunt out the wreckage of the ship that his father died on due to a thriller and a brand new villain. Within the ship, they stumble throughout his father’s sample. They beam him out and he has no concept that no time has handed in any respect, and that he is his son. Then the journey goes from there.”
It feels like this Star Trek film would have been fairly superior. It’s too dangerous it wasn’t capable of come collectively, however perhaps it should occur sooner or later? Perhaps not, however by no means say by no means.
