The latest British Dreamwatch magazine reported rumors that Paramount has dumped a proposed 11th Star Trek movie that would have been based on a script by Erik Jendresen, according to a report on the TrekWeb.com Web site. Dreamwatch cited as its source Doug Mirabello, a personal assistant to longtime Trek producer Rick Berman, who added that it'll be a long time before Paramount backs any future Trek films or TV shows.
It's been widely rumored that Paramount was developing a new film based on Jendresen's script, which reportedly would be called Star Trek: The Beginning and would involve a new cast and crew from any previously seen.
Dreamwatch also reported that there are no plans to enlist Star Trek: The Next Generation star Patrick Stewart in any new movie projects, despite earlier reports to the contrary. "It's more likely that some executive had a casual conversation with him and brought up some hypotheticals, which he ran with when some reporter asked him about Star Trek," the magazine quoted Mirabello as saying. "[But] there's a chance that someone else at Paramount is planning something huge and keeping us out of the loop. From what I've heard, Patrick wouldn't do another Trek movie unless they paid him Professor X money," he added, referring to Stewart's salary for the X-Men movies.
Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
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