Itās official!Ā Star Trek BeyondĀ is, as previously rumored, the official title of the next big screen adventure of theĀ U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701! Director Justin Lin confirmed the title today with a tweeted image from the set, showing off the franchiseās familiar delta shield on some form of Starfleet uniform. Check it out below!
The new film, now in production, will feature the return of Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto,Ā Zoe Saldana,Ā Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin and John Cho along with Idris Elba as the filmās villain and Sofia Boutella in a mystery role. J.J. Abrams, who directed the last two films, is producing the third film in the rebooted franchise. Lin, four-time The Fast and the Furious director, is set to direct from a script by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung.
Paramount Pictures has Star Trek BeyondĀ scheduled for a July 8, 2016 release, which happens to be exactly two months to the day before the franchiseās 50th Anniversary. Although it wasnāt the first episode produced, āThe Man Trap,ā in which the crew of the Enterprise encounters a deadly shapeshifting salt vampire, introduced the world to āStar Trekā on September 8, 1966.
Let the next Starfleet voyage begin! #StarTrekBeyond #LLAP pic.twitter.com/VZh9YvJgqA
ā Justin Lin (@trailingjohnson) June 29, 2015