We’ve seen the end of Jean-Luc Picard’s story several times over the last thirty years — following the conclusion of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1994, the final film Star Trek: Nemesis in 2002, and Star Trek: Picard just last year — but now the actor has shared that a film script focused on the starship captain is in the works.
Since the press tour for Picard Season 3 began back in 2022, Stewart has often hinted that there is an opportunity for one more Trek film for Jean-Luc Picard (and his Next Gen cohorts), from a joke at New York Comic Con…Patrick Stewart egging on the crowd about maybe doing "one more movie!" -- this is NOT an announcement! --
…to an interview with IndieWire where the actor suggested elements from Picard Season 3 could carry over into a big-screen adventure.
"I think we could do a movie, a ‘Picard’-based movie,” he said. “Now not necessarily at all about Picard but about all of us. And to take many of those wonderful elements, particularly from Season 3 of ‘Picard’ and take out of that what I think could be an extraordinary movie. I keep telling people and mentioning it, and so far there’s been no eager response, but it might well happen. And that would be I think a very appropriate way to say, ‘And goodbye folks.’"
Now in a recent interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast (recorded in November 2023 during the actor’s memior press tour, as noted by TrekMovie.com), Stewart has revealed that there’s actually a Picard-focused script in the works that by now is likely already in his hands. Stewart told host Josh Horowitz that:
“I heard… about a script that is being written, but written specifically with [me] to play in it [as Picard] — and and I’ve been told to expect to receive it within a week or so. I’m so excited, because it sounds like the kind of project where the experimentation that I want to do will be essential for this kind of material.”
Of course, at this point there’s absolutely no guarantee that a Stewart-starring Star Trek movie will move into production, with the many false starts the franchise has seen in the theatrical arena over the last several years — and even if it’s eventually planned as a straight-to-streaming movie like Michelle Yeoh’s Section 31 movie, there’s also the many challenges facing Paramount+ (and the Paramount Mountain as a whole) right now. So it’s truly anyone’s guess if this script will lead to another, last, we-really-mean-it final Star Trek adventure for Jean-Luc Picard and Patrick Stewart.
