Wandavision’s Matt Shakman To Direct New Star Trek Film

If you though you’ve seen the last of Star Trek on the big screen, you were quite mistaken. Deadline has reported that Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot are looking to bring Star Trek back and have tasked WandaVision‘s Matt Shakman with directing the next Star Trek movie.

While there are not many details regarding what the next film would be about, Deadline has added that this new Star Trek film will  be written by Lindsey Beer (The Magic Order) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel).

The news comes as  WandaVision earned 23 Emmy Award nominations including an Outstanding Directing For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie nomination for Shakman, Deadline added that the director was fielding several major projects, but chose Star Trek over all the others & the film is already slated for a June 9, 2023 release.


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