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Who should now direct ST3?

who?

  • Edgar Wright

    Votes: 18 31.6%

  • Ken Branagh

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Jon Faverau

    Votes: 5 8.8%

  • Rupert Wyatt

    Votes: 3 5.3%

  • Joesph Kosinski

    Votes: 5 8.8%

  • Doug Liman

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • Joe Cornish

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Wild Card (e.g. Joss Whedon)

    Votes: 25 43.9%
  • Total voters
    57
Khan 2.0 said:
We've already got a Star Trek Christmas movie - Generations:)
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Actually most ST films have been Christmas releases. Only STII, STIII, and STV were summer releases.

TOS:
ST:TMP (Dec 7, 1979)
STIV:TVH (Nov 19, 1986)
STVI:TUC (Dec 6, 1991)

TNG:
ST:G (Nov 18, 1994)
ST:FC (Nov 22, 1996)
ST:Ins (Dec 11, 1998)
ST:Nem (Dec 13, 2002)
 
I voted Kosinski - he's my logical choice. Brought back Tron to a modest success (and a decent movie if not spectacular) and Oblivion was better than it had any right to be. Both were visually gorgeous, and Oblivion in particular looked like JJTrek, just more restrained. Plus he hasn't committed to any project as of late, but is supposedly circling other 70s sci fi reboots like Logans Run.

That being said - I would like Joe Cornish to get the gig, if only because of his work on the Adam and Joe show taking the piss out of TNG (lovingly) back in the mid 90s. This guy is a fan who loves it but knows the camp factor well. If he wrote a script, personally I'd feel it could have the best balance of Trek-ness to action movie you could get.

Edgar Wright could work. The constraints on Ant-Man of tying it into the larger MCU shouldn't have any relevance here, as for all intents and purposes 3 is the last one to round out the trilogy. I can't see the actors hanging around after their contracts are up, especially Zoe Saldana. That being said, EVERYTHING Wright has done has been a passion project. Everything has taken forever for him to write and get to production. Writing a script in a proverbial weekend and shooting it the next day just doesn't seem like his style, and I don't think Trek was ever such a big deal for him. That in and of itself isn't important, because lord knows JJ wasn't a fan either but JJ had years of lead in and complete control. Wright would be jumping onto a steam train and shovelling coal all the time. That just doesn't seem like him at all.

Frakes I'd like to see, just like I'd like to see Bay do it. It'd be an interesting experiment either way.

And while i'm at it, my total pie in the sky wishful thinking shot would be Aaron Sorkin, or Sorkin/Fincher collaboration. Sorkin has an obvious passion for Trek, as his shows always seem to remind me of it and his "last ever TV show" (or so he says) is over with next week with nothing to my knowledge announced for him that hasn't already been in development hell for a few years.

So TL;DR - I like Kosinski as the safe bet. I like Cornish too. Wright would be good but I dont think would work, and Sorkin/Fincher would be amazeballs.
 
I'm obviously a fan of Jonathan Frakes, nevertheless, Frakes needs STAR TREK more than STAR TREK needs him. Frakes can only promise a quality movie, he can't assure Paramount of anything they really care about, like a hit movie. Paramount doesn't want to bet the races, it wants a sure thing ...
 
Except Favreau has just started on The Jungle Book, which is pencilled in for October next year.

I think to get this thing done for 2016, they'd have to shoot in the spring/summer.
 
Dac said:
Except Favreau has just started on The Jungle Book, which is pencilled in for October next year.

I think to get this thing done for 2016, they'd have to shoot in the spring/summer.
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They probably won't start shooting Star Trek until May of 2015. Bigger question: is he attached exclusively to Disney right now?
 
BillJ said:
Dac said:
Except Favreau has just started on The Jungle Book, which is pencilled in for October next year.

I think to get this thing done for 2016, they'd have to shoot in the spring/summer.
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They probably won't start shooting Star Trek until May of 2015. Bigger question: is he attached exclusively to Disney right now?
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I don't think so, as looking at his filmography post Iron Man he's worked with a few different studios. But reading this screenrant article suggests he's chomping at the bit to do "Magic Kingdom" right after. That well and truly makes him unavailable.
 
Dac said:
BillJ said:
Dac said:
Except Favreau has just started on The Jungle Book, which is pencilled in for October next year.

I think to get this thing done for 2016, they'd have to shoot in the spring/summer.
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They probably won't start shooting Star Trek until May of 2015. Bigger question: is he attached exclusively to Disney right now?
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I don't think so, as looking at his filmography post Iron Man he's worked with a few different studios. But reading this screenrant article suggests he's chomping at the bit to do "Magic Kingdom" right after. That well and truly makes him unavailable.
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Like we've seen with Star Trek 3, things can quickly change.
 
True. But even with Jungle Book on its own, I just don't see the timeframe working out. Especially if the movie is starting from scratch as suggested.

Peter Jackson seems to be free at the moment though.
 
Dennis said:
Give Trek to Bay; why not?
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Because he's shite?

xavier said:
johnjm22 said:
Tarantino is a Trek fan :)
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I think he could make a great trek film, all he needs to do is tone down the violence and blood and all will be well. also his large fanbase will carry the films to great sucess. tarantino is also a critics darling. so it just might work.
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A perverse part of me wants to see Trek go hard-18 horror. Star Trek vs Aliens? Imagine giving that to Tarantino - "We want you to direct Star Trek Vs Aliens." He'd probably need to change his pants.


Important: What we want is a good script first of all, and then a director who won't get in the way of that.

Whedon could be great, especially if they let him write the dialog as well - but he won't do it, if only because he is probably booked for the next five years. (Actually, they should still ask him to do a pass of the script.)

My answer: FRAKES

The directing on his Trek films was alright, not brilliant, but if you look at his filmography you'll see he has been working a lot on modern TV shows. Among many others, he did a bunch of Leverage episodes, five eps of Burn Notice, and "The Well" for Agents of SHIELD. So he has the chops to make a modern-looking Trek film.

Having Frakes in charge may also re-energise people behind the scenes. I'm sure there are a few fans working at Paramount who will be excited to work with him on NuTrek3.
 
MakeshiftPython said:
The idea of Frakes directing a TOS story is what interests me because he would have to approach it differently from his TNG work and I'd be fascinated to see that. Having seen his TV work post-Trek, he's very good at adopting the style a show established. Just because Orci hung around on the movie sets a lot doesn't make him a more qualified director (ya know, cause he isn't one).
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We've seen Frakes direct episodes of DS9, Voyager and Enterprise, and his direction was just as unimpressive and bland to me as his TNG episodes and "movies."

It doesn't matter if he's directing the new crew, in his mind, he's directing Star Trek. It's very likely his adaptive style could revert back to the Berman-era of episode and movie direction like an old habit. I could be wrong.
 
At least Frakes is genuinely excited about the possibility of directing ST, (unlike other directors who probably go '*tut* do I have to?' when their agents suggest it)
 
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