At one point, Chris Pine’s Kirk was going to reunite with Kirk’s father, played briefly by Chris Hemsworth in the 2009 movie, in a time travel tale.
However, pay negotiations between Pine and Hemsworth reportedly led to the project being placed on pause.
Additionally, Fargo’s Noah Hawley was attached to a Star Trek movie, and Quentin Tarantino even shared interest in adapting a script by The Revenant‘s Mark L. Smith said to be like “Pulp Fiction in space.”