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One of the best ways to find out what really happened on a production is to listen to the various podcasts that are out there. Without being tied deeply into the industry, like trade publications are, creatives can sometimes feel free to reveal more, like with Noah Hawley talking about Star Trek.
For years, various Star Trek projects were floated for the big screen, started pre-production in some way, then quietly went away.
Meanwhile, the clock kept ticking. Ten years on from Star Trek Beyond, Tarantino came and went, a return of Chris Hemsworth’s Kirk Sr. came to nothing, and some truly awful Trek arrived on television.
Noah Hawley
A fourth adventure led by Chris Pine in the Kelvin-verse is seemingly dead. Among these aborted attempts was one from Noah Hawley.
Hawley’s story was standalone, featuring all-new characters, and centred around a virus that wipes out vast parts of the known universe. Speaking on the SmartLess podcast this week, Hawley revealed the story behind its eventual death as a project:
“I signed on, you know, after ‘Lucy in the Sky’; I thought, ‘Oh, I like this movie thing’. I’d like to do another one, but I think maybe I’d like to try something a little bigger. You know it’s all franchises, and I thought, yeah, but everything’s war, right? ‘Star Wars’ is war, and Marvel is war. But ‘Star Trek’ isn’t war. ‘Star Trek’ is exploration, right? It’s people solving problems by being smarter than the other guy.”
“So I went in, I talked to Paramount, I sold them this original idea. It wasn’t Chris Pine, it wasn’t anything. I wrote it, they said, ‘We love it, let’s prep it.’ We were, you know, we were… I was going to move to Australia, we were booking stages, whatever…
And then, you know, as happens in Hollywood, Jim Gianopulos, who was running the studio at the time, he’s like, ‘I’m going to bring in somebody else under me, and they’re going to take over the film studio’.
And the first thing they did was kill the original ‘Star Trek’ movie because they said, ‘Well, how do we know people are going to like it?’ Like, you know, ‘Shouldn’t we do a transition movie from Chris Pine[’s cast], play it safe, you know, whatever?’ And so it kind of went away.”
So is it all completely dead? Well, maybe not. He reveals he had a conversation with David Ellison recently.
“I was like, ‘You still haven’t made a ‘Star Trek’ movie. I’m just saying it’s in there. I love it.’”
Skydance Paramount, driven by Ellison, is known to be keen to relaunch Star Trek back on the big screen as a key IP.
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