A brand new “Star Trek” movie is within the works at Paramount with “Andor’s” Toby Haynes on board to direct and Seth Grahame-Smith penning the script, Selection has confirmed.

Whereas plot particulars are being stored below wraps, the upcoming function is an origin story that’s set many years earlier than 2009’s “Star Trek,” in addition to an enlargement of the “Star Trek” universe. J.J. Abrams’ Unhealthy Robotic is producing.

In the meantime, the fourth and ultimate chapter within the rebooted “Star Trek” movie collection stays in improvement. Within the third installment, 2016’s “Star Trek Past,” the crew of the USS Enterprise crash-lands on a mysterious world after being attacked by the lizard-like dictator Krall (Idris Elba).

A fourth “Star Trek” film was first introduced in July of 2016, with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl City, John Cho and Simon Pegg anticipated to return. Chris Hemsworth, who appeared within the 2009 unique, was set to return to the house saga as George Kirk, the daddy of Captain James T. Kirk (Pine). In response to Paramount on the time, “Star Trek 4” would see Pine’s Captain Kirk cross paths together with his father, who was “a person he by no means had an opportunity to satisfy, however whose legacy has haunted him for the reason that day he was born.”

Haynes lately directed six episodes of the “Star Wars” collection “Andor,” starring Diego Luna because the titular position. He additionally helmed the “Star Trek”-inspired episode of “Black Mirror,” titled “USS Callister.” Haynes is repped by WME and lawyer Peter Nelson.

Grahame-Smith is greatest often called the writer of “Pleasure and Prejudice and Zombies” and “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter,” and served as a author on the function variations of his novels. He additionally wrote and produced 2017’s “The Lego Batman Film.” Grahame-Smith is repped by WME and attorneys PJ Shapiro and Wendy Kirk.

Deadline was first to report the “Star Trek” information.