Don’t be expecting a new Star Trek movie anytime soon. Just as it appeared as though the franchise was gaining new momentum on the big screen with a fresh take by Fargo and Legion showrunner Noah Hawley, now word comes that Paramount Pictures is re-assessing Trek on the big screen and putting Hawley’s project on the backburner. Hawley signed on to write and direct a … Continue reading ‘Star Trek’: Noah Hawley’s Film on the Backburner!!
If you’re planning on wearing a red shirt any time in the fall of 2020, you may wish to reconsider, just to be safe. The third season of Star Trek: Discovery, a smart, exciting, and beautifully inclusive addition to Gene Roddenberry‘s multimedia sci-fi franchise, is coming to CBS All Access on October 15, 2020. Hey, if coronavirus is gonna cancel Halloween, at least Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman has some kind … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 3 Release Date Revealed!! Check It Out!!
Last spring it was announced that a new Star Trek animated series would be coming to Nickelodeon and now, during a wide-ranging Star Trek Comic Con @ Home panel, the name and rough release date have been announced for this new project. In 2021, Nickelodeon will be the home to Star Trek: Prodigy. Pretty cool, right? The CGI-animated series was developed by Trollhunters writers Kevin … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’: Nickelodeon Reveals New Animated Show!!
CBS All Access has revealed the first trailer for Star Trek: Lower Decks. The show focuses on the support crew of one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in the year 2038. The 10-episode first season will premiere Thursday, August 6th on CBS All Access. Friends, Romulans, and countrymen: Lower Decks looks like a ton of fun and then some. There is definitely a more … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Trailer Ventures into the World of Animated Comedy!!
CBS All Access has announced that the new Star Trek animated series, Star Trek: Lower Decks will premiere on August 6th. The series will focus on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships. Hailing from Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty), the main cast appears to be a collection of ensigns (voiced by Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noel Wells, and Eugene Cordero), and … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’: First Poster Reveals the Premiere Date!! Check It Out!!
CBS All Access isn’t done launching new Star Trek shows. After bringing the franchise back to TV with “Star Trek: Discovery” in 2017, then revisiting some beloved characters with “Star Trek: Picard” earlier this year, the streaming service has placed a straight-to-series order for “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” which will depict the early days of the Enterprise, before Captain Kirk took command. We already … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’: CBS All Access Green Signals Pike Spin-Off Series!!
When you fire up the streaming service CBS All Access later this year, it might look very different—it might even have a different name. ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish confirmed on an earnings call on Thursday that the streaming service will undergo a rebranding as it expands to include more of the parent company’s cable brands and library programming, with a relaunch planned for later this … Continue reading CBS All Access Set to Undergo a Rebranding!!
Before Netflix adapted Luke Cage to television and Marvel conceived a cinematic universe, director Quentin Tarantino had plans for the Hero for Hire. The Academy Award-winner appeared on Amy Schumer‘s podcast 3 Girls, 1 Keith to talk about his early ambitions as an aspiring filmmaker including wanting to adapt the hero to the big screen. Tarantino confessed a Luke Cage film interested him between making … Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Wanted to Make a ‘Luke Cage’ Film with Laurence Fishburne!!
A new teaser trailer for Star Trek: Discovery season 3 shows Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) settling down in the future. The second season of Discovery came to an end in April 2019, and it boldly took the Star Trek franchise to where it hasn’t gone before. In order to prevent vital information from falling into the hands of the villainous A.I. Control, Burnham took the U.S.S. Discovery far away into the … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 3 Gets a Teaser Trailer!! Check It Out!!
Paramount doesn’t really know what to do with Star Trek on the big screen anymore. They’re perfectly happy to keep cranking out a billion series for CBS All Access, but when it comes to feature films, they’re stuck. When they relaunched the franchise in 2009, Star Wars was dormant, so there was room for a big, sci-fi, space action series, but that’s no longer the … Continue reading ‘Star Trek’: Simon Pegg Explains Why the Film Franchise Has Stalled!!
CBS All Access has released a new trailer for Star Trek: Picard. The upcoming sequel series follows Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) coming out of retirement to go on a new mission with a new crew. CBS has been heavily marketing the show as a way to get people hooked on CBS All Access (I saw plenty of ads yesterday during the AFC Championship game), but … Continue reading ‘Picard’: New Trailer Reminds Us the Series Premieres This Week!! Check It Out!!
Well it turns out we may not get to see Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie after all. In December 2017, it was revealed that Tarantino had pitched an original idea for a Star Trek film to producer J.J. Abrams, and the two were officially developing that idea into a potential movie that Tarantino might direct. They set Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) to write a … Continue reading ‘Star Trek’: Quentin Tarantino Confirms He Won’t Direct!!
CBS All Access recently announced the second season renewal of its upcoming original series Star Trek: Picard. We previously reported as much about a month ago, but the official announcement was made by Julie McNamara, Executive Vice President of Original Content for CBS All Access, during the service’s biannual Television Critics Association presentation. Here’s what she had to say: “The energy and excitement around the … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Is Officially Renewed For Season 2!!
Back in November, we learned that Paramount and Bad Robot had hired Fargo and Legion showrunner Noah Hawley to write and direct the next Star Trek movie. The future of the Trek films have been up in the air for a while. After reception cooled following 2009’s Trek and was less than what Paramount wanted for Star Trek Beyond, the film franchise has been in … Continue reading ‘Star Trek’: Noah Hawley’s Film is Not a Sequel!!
After the 2019 release of his mega-acclaimed Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, we knew three things about the future of Quentin Tarantino. One: His upcoming feature film was going to be his 10th. Two: He plans to retire from directing after 10 films. Three: He’s been developing an R-rated Star Trek film for some time now. So: Was his 10th, and last, feature film going to be … Continue reading ‘Star Trek’: Quentin Tarantino Is Probably Not Making the Movie Anymore!!
CBS All Access now has two to beam up. The streaming service has given the Season 2 go-ahead to Star Trek: Picard, the new flagship series set in the Star Trek universe that features the return of title character Jean-Luc Picard as brought to life by Patrick Stewart. Season 1 of Star Trek: Picard will debut on CBS All Access January 23, 2020 with a … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Already Renewed For Season 2!!
CBS All Access revealed a new, longer Star Trek: Picard trailer today while also confirming when, exactly, you’ll get to see the new series. Indeed, the Star Trek: Picard premiere date has been set for Thursday, January 23, 2020, where it will kick off with the premiere episode and then the rest of the 10-episode first season will be released on a weekly basis on … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Picard’: New Trailer Teases the Return of Old Friends!! Check It Out!!
The upcoming Star Trek: Picard spinoff series has wrapped production on season one. The announcement came via the visual effects supervisor Ante Dekovic who took to Instagram to congratulate the cast and crew on finishing the filming process of the project. “That’s a wrap on Star Trek: Picard!!! …at least the filming part. All is left, months of post-production,” Dekovic says in the post. “Thanks @startrekcbs … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 1 Wraps Filming!!!
If you work in this industry long enough, you’ll see how cyclical it can be. Case in point, today’s announcement that CBS and Viacom have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger, creating a combined company with more than $28 billion in revenue. The new entity, known as ViacomCBS Inc., will be led by Bob Bakish as President and CEO, with … Continue reading CBS and Viacom to Merge Once Again!!!
Quentin Tarantino’s R-rated Star Trek movie is set in the Chris Pine timeline according to the director. There were many a raised eyebrow when iconic director Quentin Tarantino announced he wanted to make an R-rated Star Trek film. There is plenty of intrigue behind the project with fans eager to see how it will all work. One big question is how will it fit in … Continue reading ‘Star Trek’: Quentin Tarantino’s Film is set in the Chris Pine timeline!!
Today at the Star Trek panel at Comic-Con, CBS All Access showed off the first trailer for Star Trek: Short Treks. The six episodes will bring back Star Trek: Discovery characters Ethan Peck (Spock), Rebecca Romijn (Number One), and Anson Mount (Christopher Pike) in these episodes. They also announced that one of the episodes will take place 15 years before the events of the upcoming … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Short Treks’ Trailer Has Spock Trapped in an Elevator!! Check It Out!!
CBS All Access has released a full trailer for their upcoming series Star Trek: Picard. The show will star Patrick Stewart reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as the films Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis. At the panel for the show, they … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Trailer Takes the Beloved Captain to a New Frontier!! Check It Out!!
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino may be retiring from making movies after his 10th film, but that doesn’t mean he won’t still be directing. Indeed, while Tarantino is no stranger to the TV format having helmed episodes of ER and CSI quite some time ago, the filmmaker recently revealed that he’s secretly written five episodes of a Western TV series called Bounty Law that he hopes to … Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Has Written a Western TV Series!!
Ahead of the TV show’s Comic-Con panel, CBS All Access has debuted the first poster for Star Trek: Picard. The show will star Patrick Stewart reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as the films Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis. Details on the … Continue reading ‘Picard’: New Poster Reveals the Former Captain!!! Check It Out!!
Yes, Quentin Tarantino still plans to quit making movies after he hits 10. Which means yes, this summer’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood could very well end up being the penultimate feature film from writer/director Quentin Tarantino. The Oscar-winning filmmaker has long maintained that he wants to give up movie making after he hits his 10th film because, to his mind, a director’s quality … Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Still Says He’s Only Making One More Movie!!!
Can a Pulitzer Prize win translate into a successful showrunning gig? That’s what CBS All Access is banking on as the streaming wing of the broadcast network has set Michael Chabon (“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”) to spearhead the Star Trek: Picard series. The move comes as a promotion of sorts for Chabon who has been a part of the show’s creative team … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Picard’: Michael Chabon Set as Showrunner for the CBS All Access Series!!
J.J. Abrams is working with Marvel! No, not in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And not on television. Instead, Abrams has been collaborating with his 20-year-old son Henry Abrams to write a new Spider-Man comic miniseries that’s due to publish this September, featuring artwork by Sara Pichelli. The news was announced today by Marvel, along with word that the Abramses’ story will introduce a new villain … Continue reading J.J. Abrams and His Son Henry Are Writing a ‘Spider-Man’ Comic for Marvel!!!!
The battle of the suitors is reportedly at an end, as J.J. Abrams has settled on where his Bad Robot production company will call home for the foreseeable future. With Bad Robot’s feature film deal at Paramount Pictures up for renegotiation, Abrams and those at his company (including CEO Katie McGrath) met with various studios around Hollywood to explore options as to where it would next … Continue reading J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Nearing Deal with WarnerMedia!!!
Chris Hemsworth won’t be boldly going (back) where no man has gone before anytime soon. While the Thor actor’s future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is up in the air, there’s been interest in bringing him back to the franchise that helped jump-start his career: Star Trek. Hemsworth does a lot with very little screen time in J.J. Abrams’ wonderfully entertaining 2009 reboot Star Trek, … Continue reading ‘Star Trek 4’: Chris Hemsworth Explains Why He Turned Down Role!!
CBS All Access has revealed the first trailer for the upcoming Star Trek series, Star Trek: Picard. The show will star Patrick Stewart reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as the films Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis. The trailer itself isn’t bad. … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Picard’: First Trailer Reveals the Patrick Stewart led Series!! Check It Out!!
CBS revealed at its New York upfronts that its new Star Trek series, in which Patrick Stewart will reprise his Next Generation Jean-Luc Picard role, will officially be titled Star Trek: Picard. A+ for accuracy! The network also revealed a look at the series’ official logo. Star Trek Into Darkness writer Alex Kurtzman is heading up production as showrunner. Hanelle Culpepper (Star Trek: Discovery) will direct … Continue reading Patrick Stewart’s ‘Star Trek’ Series Officially Titled ‘Star Trek: Picard’!!!
Back in 2017, it was reported that Quentin Tarantino was developing a Star Trek film with an eye to direct, based on an idea he shared with producer J.J. Abrams. Since then, Tarantino has been pretty hard at work on his 1969-set drama Once Upon a Time In Hollywood—which is not a Manson movie!—and we haven’t got much of an update on the Star Trek film … Continue reading ‘Star Trek’: Quentin Tarantino’s Movie Still a Very Big Possibility!!
A new animated Star Trek series is on the way from Kevin and Dan Hageman (Trollhunters, The LEGO Movie) and it will be headed to Nickelodeon. This is not to be confused with the animated Star Trek comedy series from Rick and Morty writer Mike McMahan, Star Trek: Lower Decks, which is aimed at mature audiences. Per the press release: A new, original CG-animated Star … Continue reading ‘Star Trek’: A New Animated Series on Nickelodeon Will Follow a Group of “Lawless Teens”!!
CBS All Access is filling out the series regular cast of its upcoming Star Trek: The Next Generation sequel focusing on Patrick Stewart’s iconic captain Jean-Luc Picard, with The Wrap reporting that Alison Pill (The Newsroom), Harry Treadaway (Mr. Mercedes) and Isa Briones (Takers) have joined the series. Details on the Picard series are being kept under wraps, but it has been revealed that it … Continue reading ‘Star Trek’: Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway and Isa Briones Join the Picard Series!!!
Last August, CBS All Access announced that Patrick Stewart, who either through science or unspeakable witchcraft has not aged since 1992, would reprise his Next Generation role of Jean-Luc Picard for a brand new Star Trek series. Now, the network has landed its director for the series’ first two episodes and it’s a bit of a history-making moment for the long-running sci-fi franchise. The Wrap … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Director Hanelle Culpepper To Helm Jean-Luc Picard Pilot!!
A couple months ago Star Trek fans were treated with the exciting news that Sir Patrick Stewart will be returning to the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek series. While not much else is known about the currently untitled show, we now have an idea when it will hit CBS All Access. CBS’ chief creative officer David Nevins told the audience of the 46th … Continue reading Star Trek’s Picard Series To Air In 2019 End!!
Having revived Star Trek on the small screen last year with Star Trek: Discovery, CBS All Access is currently in the process of expanding the long-running sci-fi franchise with a number of new projects, including Star Trek: Short Treks, a Star Trek: The Next Generation sequel with Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard, and an animated comedy series entitled Star Trek: Lower Decks. Well, we can now … Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Discovery’: Michelle Yeoh In Talks To Lead A New Spinoff Series!!
J.J. Abrams may have originated the idea of the complex, red-herring filled mystery box, but there’s nothing puzzling about the writer/director/producer’s latest story: the man is trying to get mother ‘effing paid. Variety reports that Abrams is currently on the hunt for a highly ambitious, astronomically prolific overall deal, with several studios currently courting the filmmaker. The deal would reportedly not only guarantee a number … Continue reading J.J. Abrams Reportedly on the Hunt for Massive Overall Deal!!!
CBS All Access today announced a two-season order for Star Trek: Lower Decks, a new half-hour animated comedy series developed by Emmy Award-winner Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty). The series will focus on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships and will be produced by CBS Eye Animation Productions, CBS Television Studios’ new animation arm; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Secret … Continue reading CBS All Access Orders Animated ‘Star Trek’ Comedy Series from ‘Rick and Morty’ Writer!!
Patrick Stewart will return to the helm of the Star Trek franchise as Captain (perhaps Commodore or even Admiral?) Jean-Luc Picard in an all-new, as-of-yet untitled series for CBS All Access. Today, fans everywhere are one step closer to seeing just what this new series has in store as Stewart revealed a behind-the-scenes pic from the show’s writers room. The creative team includes Alex Kurtzman, James … Continue reading ‘Star Trek’: Patrick Stewart Reveals the New Writers Room in Behind-the-Scenes Image!! Check It Out!!
On the heels of the news that Sir Patrick Stewart will be reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard for a new Star Trek series, CBS All Access has announced the return of another beloved and iconic character to the Trek universe: Spock. Ethan Peck (yes, grandson of Gregory Peck), will star as “the half human, half Vulcan Science Officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise, and foster brother of Michael Burnham” (Sonequa … Continue reading Ethan Peck Cast As Spock In ‘Star Trek: Discovery’!!!
CBS All Access is doubling down on its Star Trek slate, announcing Saturday at Star Trek: Las Vegas convention that Patrick Stewart will reprise his role as Jean-Luc Picard for a new series. THR reports that the show is not a reboot of The Next Generation—the series that saw Stewart captain the Enterprise for seven years—but an original story following a different chapter in the character’s life. Luckily … Continue reading Patrick Stewart to Return as Jean-Luc Picard in A New ‘Star Trek’ Series!!!
Alex Kurtzman, who recently became the showrunner on Star Trek: Discovery after the old showrunners were ousted for reportedly being abusive towards the writing staff, has his eye on much bigger plans for the long-running franchise. According to a press release, Kurtzman’s five-year deal with CBS Television Studios includes “expanding the Star Trek franchise for television.” Sources tell EW that there are three different Trek concepts … Continue reading Alex Kurtzman Developing New ‘Star Trek’ Series with Patrick Stewart!!!!
Much anticipation surrounds the next film from Quentin Tarantino, for a number of reasons. For one, if Tarantino sticks to his plan to retire after 10 films, this is his penultimate effort. For another, the story takes place in 1969 and in some way involves the Manson Murders. But maybe most intriguingly, the casting on this untitled film is really interesting. Margot Robbie has an … Continue reading Leonardo DiCaprio To Play A Western show Actor in Quentin Tarantino’s Next Film!!!
J.J. Abrams has spent near the last decade traversing the galaxy on the big screen with the Star Trek and Star Wars films, but Abrams is finally eyeing a return to TV writing with a new sci-fi series. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the filmmaker plans to head back to space once agin with a new spec script he’s shopping around to networks. The series would … Continue reading J.J. Abrams Shopping a Return to TV with New Sci-Fi Series!!!
This is all happening so fast. In a year full of things that were difficult to believe, news of a Quentin Tarantino Star Trek movie has got to be one of the biggest headtrips of all. The project surfaced earlier this month when reports hit that Tarantino shared a Star Trek pitch with J.J. Abrams, who loved it and took it to the higher-ups at Paramount, where … Continue reading Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ Movie Lands ‘The Revenant’ Screenwriter!!!
The Curious Case of Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek Movie keeps getting weirder and weirder. The news itself was the first off-the-wall idea, with word breaking earlier this week that Tarantino had pitched an idea for a Star Trek movie to producer J.J. Abrams, who sparked to the pitch and quickly made this official. A writers room was assembled incredibly quickly, and Tarantino spent hours with … Continue reading Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ Movie Will Be R-Rated; Zeroing in on Writer!!
Hands to god, this is not a joke. Quentin Tarantino might actually direct a Star Trek movie. Deadline reports that the filmmaker has come up with an idea for an idea to boldly go in an entirely new career direction with a Star Trek film at Paramount Pictures. Per the report, Tarantino shared an idea for a new Trek film with producer J.J. Abrams, who took … Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Is Developing a ‘Star Trek’ Movie and He Might Direct It!!!
Synopsis – The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test. My Take – I was never Trekkie! In fact, the earlier TV series and films never intrigued me even though I did end up watching most of the episodes of Star Trek: Generations. I never … Continue reading Star Trek Beyond (2016) Review!!!
Adam Nimoy, son of the late Leonard Nimoy, initially conceived the idea of a Star Trek documentary as a tribute to the original series for its 50th anniversary. After the death of the beloved actor, the concept changed and it became more about Leonard and his relationship with Adam. The film is now called For the Love of Spock, and a new trailer offers a glimpse at Adam’s efforts to … Continue reading ‘For the Love of Spock’ Trailer: Leonard Nimoy Documentary Pays Homage to the Man Behind the Vulcan!! Check It Out!!
