Paramount Pictures has found a new captain to begin work on its next Star Trek film.
Fear the Walking Dead writer and co-executive producer Kalinda Vasquez has been tapped to write a new Star Trek movie for Paramount Pictures, per Deadline. J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is producing. If the project is greenlit, Vasquez will become the first woman to pen a Star Trek film.
At the moment, it’s uncertain whether the new project intends to include previously established characters from recent