Star Trek 4: Zachary Quinto Keen For Return

In a recent conversation with Christina Radish at Collider, Zachary Quinto has revealed that he’s keen to return to the JJ Abrams Star Trek Universe and has “just emailed J.J. this week“.

The franchise in question, a reboot of the original series from 1979 to 1991, was released to cinemas over the course of seven years between 2009 and 2016. It starred the likes of Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, and more. Since then, Star Trek has existed in other forms, such as an animated TV series and a different live-action take. With the recent news of the merger between Paramount and Skydance, there has been considerable talk and excitement about a return to the JJ Abrams films.

When asked if he’d be interested in doing another film in the rebooted ‘Kelvin-verse’, Quinto told Collider…

“I would absolutely love to do another Star Trek movie. I don’t understand why we haven’t done one yet, but hopefully now that the Skydance and Paramount merger is moving forward, Skydance was the financier of all the Star Trek movies that we’ve done so far, and have been great partners in those films, and I would love to revisit it. I think all of us would.

It’s been 10 years since we made the last movie, and nine years since it came out, and I do think that it would be a really wonderful way to close that chapter of the story and the characters that we’ve all come to love and come to enjoy inhabiting as much as we have. I think it would be really wonderful. I actually just emailed J.J. this week to say, ‘Hey, this would be really exciting.’ I think fans would be really open to it and really welcome a final movie.”

This isn’t the first time that a member of the cast has expressed interest in returning to the franchise. In the same interview, he noted that Chris Pine and the others are also keen to return: “I’m still incredibly close with Chris, I stay in touch with the rest of the cast as well. I think all of us would welcome the chance to work together again. It was a really fun trilogy of movies, and to bring it back around one more time and get the old gang back together, I think, would be really incredible.”

Zachary Quinto was talking to Collider as a promotion for the upcoming season of his show Brilliant Minds, which will premiere on September 22 on NBC. 

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