Paramount heightens hilarious “Star Trek 4 is happening” joke by hiring another new screenwriter

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It’s been nearly eight years and six TV shows since Star Trek Beyond

Among Hollywood’s funniest running gags , Paramount is doubling down on its long-running Star Trek 4 bit. In the latest news from a movie we sincerely doubt will ever be made, Paramount has hired a screenwriter to write the fourth and final J.J. Abrams-produced Star Trek movie. Per Variety, Steve Yockey, who created Max’s The Flight Attendant, will join the ranks of unlucky writers paid to will into existence another Chris Pine-led Star Trek movie.

Payne and Patrick McKay 2) Noah Hawley 3) Kaline Vazquez 4) Lindsey Beer and Geneva Robertson-Dworet Yockey now becomes the latest writer to tackle what is, essentially, a remake of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Of course, the lack of movement on a Star Trek movie hasn’t damaged Paramount’s warp drive. In the years since Star Trek Beyond left theaters, the studio launched Star Trek: Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds—and we didn’t even include Star Trek Shorts.

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