The only person who can save Star Trek is already rented by Paramount

By Chris SnellGrove | Being published 35 seconds ago

Recently, Star Trek fans received the sad news that the plans for the fourth movie Kelvinverse Kelvinverse Kelvinver That movie may have united the fandom and helped show that the studio was serious about managing its great franchise after the integration of Skydance.

Fortunately, one director who can save Star Trek is already working on the paramoous: Edgar Wright, who just finished directing the reboot of A working man.

Wright stuff

While Wright has never previously directed a Star Trek episode or film, his ties to the franchise run deeper than you might think. This page Scott Pilgrim The director first met Simon Pegg when they both worked on – Constipated TV show, and Wright helped make the character a household name with the Horrout Horror Hit Shaun of the Dead. Later, the actor was cast as scotty inside Star Trek (2009), and when he visited pegg on the set of Star Trek in the darkWright ended up directing a second unit shot with flawless marks that could not be killed.

Those Franchise Connections are great, but the main reason I want Whatm to Helm is a Trek movie that has everything to do with its work in other franchises. The success of movies like Shaun of the Dead and Hot fuzz Wright is cemented as a great director of comics, and I would definitely like to see more comics in the fictional world chosen by Gene Roddenerry.

Set up your Phanters for fun

Except for the best Lower decksThe franchise often struggles with humor, with very broad jokes (like Humoy’s slapstick star trek v), very Quppy (like the first kelvinverse movie), or weird (like all the ferengi episodes). Wright’s involvement, however, would have made the film even funnier Star Trek IV: The Final FrontierConquering the general audience that is not good does not go the other way that sees a nerdy sci-fi film. This will give you the power to win when the studio wants to put Star Trek back on the Hollywood Map.

Of course, Edgar Wright is specific in other forms: with Scott Pilgrim vs. The worldHe created an action-packed masterpiece that combines the game’s kinetic video aesthetics and millennial sounds in one slick, anime-inspired package. and Children’s Driverturned the car chase genre into a High-Octane Thrill Give with all the wachowskis’ Race speed and all the jazzy glee of Cowboy bebop. and Last night in sohothe variety director showed that he can deliver horror as viscerally trauma as Shaun of the Dead he was irreverently funny.

By now, your question may be obvious, but what can you do to make yourself a star? ” Based on the examples above, the answer is clear whatever he wants to do. That’s kind of the point: Fight is one of the most versatile and unparalleled directors in Hollywood, and he can take the franchise in any direction it needs to (ahem) bravely go.

Star Trek’s ongoing identity crisis

This is very important because Paramount itself does not seem to have a strong idea of ​​what Star Trek should be: Getting it and Persuasion they were dark and kind, A new unknown world light and drinkable, Lower decks it was good-hearted fluff, too Section 31 it was a silly, Marvel-style adventure. Until just last week, the studio was weighing two very different films, finally deciding to drop the fourth Kelvinverse movie in favor of taking the franchise in a new direction.

Well, no one knows how to make movies that can be great and interesting like Edgar Wright, and he is the one who knows how to breathe new life into a franchise that has been made (let’s face it) indeed showing its age in recent years. He has featured in one genre after another while delivering a series of memorable films, and is currently working on matching the same Running Man movie. Here’s hoping the person in charge of Trek gets him to give the job while he’s at it, because without that vision in the driver’s seat, it’s going to be almost impossible to steer this franchise away from success.

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