Captain Kirk and his son are no longer acting! Star Trek 4 may have to replace the lead actor

According to foreign media reports, "Star Trek 4" is likely to lose Chris Penn and Chris Hemsworth, the actors who play "Captain Kirk and his son", due to salary issues.

Two years ago, Paramount announced that "Star Trek 4" will "reunite Captain Kirk and his son through time travel." However, now not only Chris Hemsworth may not return to "Star Trek", but "Captain Kirk" Chris Pine is also going to withdraw!

What is going on?

It turned out that the box office failure of "Star Trek Beyond" was the trigger. The film cost $190 million to produce, but the global box office was only $343 million, which did not reach the box office level expected for a movie of this magnitude, which greatly disappointed Paramount.

So they wanted to control the production cost of Star Trek 4, which involved cutting the pay of the stars. Chris Hemsworth and Chris Penn didn't want their pay to be cut, after all, they were paid very well for starring in Marvel and DC movies. But Paramount stressed that the box office of Star Trek 3 could not be compared with Marvel movies and Wonder Woman, so the pay could not be on par with those movies.

The two sides discussed this matter for a long time, but they could not reach an agreement. In the end, no one talked about it anymore, and both Chriss might withdraw.

Negotiations for other leading actors, such as Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto, are close to completion and they will soon sign contracts.

This means that Paramount may change the actors to play the "Kirk father and son". But in that case, what is the point of the whole "Kirk father and son" reunion drama?

Star Trek 4 is being directed by SJ Clarkson, the female director of the TV series Jessica Jones. She is the first female director to direct the series. The undecided lead actor made her directorial work difficult from the beginning.