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Noah Hawley to Write And Direct Next ‘Star Trek’ Film for

“Legion” creator Noah Hawley is in talks to jot down and direct the subsequent “star trek” movie for Paramount, a person with data of the mission tells TheWrap.

The movie shall be fourth within the sequence that started with 2009’s “Star Trek” reboot. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg and Karl Urban are anticipated to return. Hawley may even produce by way of his 26 Keys manufacturing banner together with JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot banner.

There are at the moment three “Star Trek 4” scripts, TheWrap beforehand reported, chatting with an individual accustomed to the mission — a reality let slip by Spock actor Zachary Quinto in a 2018 interview with E.T. Canada.

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Incidentally, it’s not the primary time a “Star Trek” sequel has arisen out of a number of scripts. 1982’s “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” was an amalgam of a number of screenplays. When Nicholas Meyer got here aboard to direct, he picked by way of what he favored out of all of them — together with authentic TV sequence creator Gene Roddenberry’s — and stitched them collectively.

The subsequent “Trek” movie was tentatively scheduled for a 2019 launch, however Paramount hasn’t introduced a manufacturing begin date but.

Hawley made his function movie directorial debut on “Lucy in the Sky,” which stars Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, Zazie Beetz, Pearl Amanda Dickson, Tig Notaro and Ellen Burstyn. The movie premiered on the Toronto Film Festival and was launched within the fall by Fox Searchlight.

Hawley is repped by CAA.

All 39 ‘Star Trek’ Main Characters Ranked, From Spock to Wesley (Photos)

In its half-century historical past, “Star Trek” has challenged us to boldly go the place nobody has gone earlier than. The finest characters have typically inspired vigorous debate amongst Trekkies, as they’re in contrast by their rank and species and evaluated for variations of their flaws and virtues. The worst — we’re taking a look at you “Voyager” and “Enterprise” — depart followers questioning if there is a level to their existence.

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A fast word, to maintain the listing manageable, we’re proscribing the listing to the principle solid of the 5 “Trek” reveals earlier than “Discovery.” That means you will not be seeing film villains like Khan or recurring characters like Q. But let or not it’s mentioned that if we did embrace him, Q would prime the listing by a number of gentle years.

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39. Wesley Crusher (The Next Generation)
By far essentially the most hated character in “Trek” historical past. An excellent-genius child who would on multiple event save the Enterprise whereas others with infinitely extra expertise struggled. Even the person who performed him, Wil Wheaton, hated him.

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38. Travis Mayweather (Enterprise)
No backstory, no fears, no needs. No “Trek” crew member was extra pointless and two-dimensional than Mayweather, besides maybe for …

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37. Hoshi Sato (Enterprise)
… a poor man’s Uhura whose sole function was to function a translator for the crew for the reason that know-how for the Universal Translator hadn’t been invented but. Like most of the characters on the backside of this listing, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga had been unable to flesh Sato out past her primary premise.

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36. Neelix (Voyager)
And now for the “Voyager” portion of our listing, beginning with the ship’s mohawked chef. He by no means match into the present’s plots, leaving him to spout dumb meals jokes and platitudes of optimism to the weary crew.

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