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They penned our favourite friendly neighbourhood's MCU debut with Spider-Man: Homecoming. They wrote and directed D&D's big-screen blockbuster bow in the shape of Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. Now, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are preparing to boldly go if not where nobody's gone before then at least where no-one's been for quite some time. Yes, as Deadline reports, the duo have been tapped to write, produce and direct an all-new Star Trek movie at Paramount. Punch it!
Leaving all thoughts of the Kurtzmanverse and Kelvin timeline behind, Goldstein and Daley's take on Star Trek — though highly secretive at this stage — is expected to offer fans and franchise newcomers alike a completely fresh take on the universe Gene Roddenberry created almost sixty years ago. So yes, that does mean we probably won't be getting that long-mooted Star Trek Beyond sequel anytime soon, and if you were still somehow holding out for Quentin Tarantino's take on Trek then you can probably move on from those dreams at this point. Instead, a new cast playing new characters in an new story sounds like the plan for Goldstein and Daley, whose proclivity for revivifying legacy franchises with a spunky sense of fun and irreverence could be just what the Spock-ter ordered.
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There may be a wee wait just yet before Goldstein and Daley's Star Trek warp speed jumps into your local multiplex: the duo have had their hands more than a little full with hotly anticipated, Ryan Reynolds led action-adventure Mayday, which by all accounts has had promising early test screenings thus far. Still, with Star Trek's big 60th birthday right around the corner, bringing with it more Strange New Worlds and the very promising looking Starfleet Academy series, news of a fresh big-screen outing for the legendary sci-fi series gives us every reason to believe that the franchise will live long and prosper for many more years to come. And hey, maybe Paramount will see what Goldstein and Daley are cooking here and finally greenlight a new D&D movie. Roll a D20 for luck!