Chris Hemsworth Was Not Happy With The ‘Star Trek 4’ Script
By Chris Evangelista/May 29, 2019 3:00 pm EST
J.J. Abrams’s 2009 Star Trek reboot opened with the birth of Captain Kirk during a big space battle aboard the USS Kelvin. During the battle, baby Kirk and his mother escape, but his father George Kirk, played by Chris Hemsworth, dies. Star Trek was released before Hemsworth became a much bigger star thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and in the years that followed, J.J. Abrams came up with a pretty neat idea: what if Hemsworth came back for a sequel? While the full specifics have yet to be released, the pitch involved some sort of time travel element causing the now-adult Kirk, played by Chris Pine, teaming up with his father for a big adventure.
But there was apparently more to the story than we realized. In a new interview with Variety, the actor reveals he had some issues with the script:
Hemsworth is being a little vague here, so it’s not clear if he didn’t like the script as a whole, or if he just wasn’t happy with the way the story brought his dead character back to life. No matter what the case, the actor did not feel comfortable signing on. It’s possible the production could’ve continued with a new actor taking Hemsworth’s place, but Pine’s departure was the final nail in the coffin, since he’s the lead of the franchise.
He turned down the next “Star Trek” sequel because he wasn’t sold on the script. “I didn’t feel like we landed on a reason to revisit that yet,” he reveals. “I didn’t want to be underwhelmed by what I was going to bring to the table.”
Now it’s unclear if we’ll ever get a Star Trek 4. If we do, I’m just going to go out on a limb and say Hemsworth won’t be a part of it.
