Paramount heightens hilarious “Star Trek 4 is happening” joke by hiring another new screenwriter
It’s been nearly eight years and six TV shows since Star Trek Beyond

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Among Hollywood’s funniest running gags (just behind “director hired for Star Wars film” and Sony’s ongoing Spider-Man minus Spider-Man universe), Paramount is doubling down on its long-running Star Trek 4 bit. In the latest news from a movie we sincerely doubt will ever be made, Paramount has hired a screenwriter to write the fourth and final J.J. Abrams-produced Star Trek movie. Per Variety, Steve Yockey, who created Max’s The Flight Attendant, will join the ranks of unlucky writers paid to will into existence another Chris Pine-led Star Trek movie. Yockey also wrote for the Scream TV series, Supernatural, and Doom Patrol. Unfortunately, we’ll probably never know what his Trek script is about because, since 2016, which, to be clear, was nearly a decade ago, Paramount has hired the following writers to pen Star Trek 4:
1) J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay (Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power)