Patrick Stewart Reveals STAR TREK Movie Script in Development

In an interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Patrick Stewart teased that a Star Trek movie script was being written with him in mind. While posted on January 4, 2024, the interview was recorded in November 2023 in support of the publication of Stewart’s memoir, Making It So.

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Stewart told host Josh Horowitz that he had just been informed a Trek script was being written with Stewart in mind. He continued that he expected to receive a draft of the script within a fortnight. Stewart noted that the project excited him due to its experimental nature.

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In many interviews (and in Making It So), Stewart has made it clear that he was willing to participate in Star Trek: Picard only because it was a departure. This allowed him to bring something different to the role when compared to his performance on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Perhaps the news of a script in development should come as no surprise. In Making It So, Stewart wrote: “I am gently pushing Paramount to let us do one single Picard movie. Not a Next Generation movie, as we have already done four of those.” Stewart continues that this hypothetical movie would constitute an “expansion and deepening of the universe as we’ve seen it” on Picard.

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So, what could we expect from this movie? Making It So continues: “I’ve discussed this with [Jonathan Frakes], [Brent Spiner], and [LeVar Burton], and they are all game. Jonathan is my first choice to direct it.” Could official confirmation of an in-development movie featuring the TNG alums be in the cards?

All three seasons of Star Trek: Picard are currently available for streaming on Paramount+.

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Avery Kaplan is the author of several books and the Features Editor at Comics Beat. She was honored to serve as a judge for the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award and the 2021 Prism Awards. She lives in the mountains of Southern California with her partner and a pile of cats, and her favorite place to visit is the cemetery. You can also find her writing on Comics Bookcase, NeoText, Shelfdust, the Mary Sue, StarTrek.com, in many issues of PanelxPanel, and in the margins of the books in her personal library.

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