10 Upcoming Movies Which Are Already Doomed

It's frankly baffling that this July will mark an entire decade since the release of the last theatrical Star Trek movie, Star Trek Beyond, and though Paramount has made a spirited attempt to get a fourth Abrams-verse movie made, it just hasn't come together.

And so, last November Paramount finally admitted defeat-of-sorts, announcing that they were no longer pursuing Star Trek 4 and had instead hired filmmakers Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves) to helm a new franchise reboot.

Goldstein and Daley's film will be an entirely new take on Trek with no connections to any existing iteration, and while in theory this sounds like just the sort of fresh start the IP desperately needs, it'll be a considerably trickier sell to mainstream audiences.

If recent cinema history has proven anything, it's that general viewers love familiarity and nostalgia, and so a new Trek movie featuring some version of Kirk or Picard is probably the safest way to go.

And while Goldstein and Daley certainly have the chops to deliver an entertaining new riff on Trek, it doesn't mean audiences are going to turn up for a Trek reboot filled with entirely new characters.

It sadly wouldn't be remotely surprising if this turned out an acclaimed flop just like their Dungeons & Dragons movie, and though it's easy to root for the duo, the odds are stacked high against them.