MUMBAI: Paramount Studios has revealed that it will release its next Star Trek sequel, shot in 3D. on May 17, 2013. This means that the film would follow Marvel/Disney‘s Iron Man 3 and Warner Bros.‘ Guillermo del Toro-directed Pacific Rim.

The delay of the film‘s release has been caused by director-producer J.J. Abrams not being able to make up his mind as he was tied up with Super 8. This made the studio backtrack on his earlier decision to release the film in June 2012.

Earlier, the 2009 edition of Star Trek had grossed $386 million worldwide.

Parmount hopes that the sequel will achieve much greater a success looking at how Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. re-launched the Batman franchise with Batman Begins.