I'm basing all of this on my theory and speculation. No proof.
Fair enough.
But if you look at the timeline. CBS announced the new series on November 2, 2015. Bryan Fuller joins as show runner on Feb 9, 2016.
Here is where you're getting confused. First, you need to change "joins" on the Bryan Fuller sentence to "announced" like you did for the CBS "announced the new series" before it. I'm sure you know that they don't hire someone and announce it same day. They don't create a show, and announce it the same day. These are things that are days, weeks and sometimes
months in the making.
Fuller was working on this project late last year. He was
announced in February. There is a big difference.
That's 3 months too long for a series already set to premier January 2017.
Sorry, improper use of "premiere" bugs me ... haha!
And once again, there is a difference between when work actually begins on a project, and when it is publicly announced. Even when Erik and I were talking about what we could do to help get his lost Trek film idea considered as a series, I pointed out that I had heard there was a series in development, but until CBS announced it, we always had a chance to displace it.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble but Bryan Fuller may have been the last person they looked at or may be considering.
You can't "burst my bubble" for something that is not true. Fuller is a hot commodity, and CBS knows that he has a huge Trek following. And while his shows haven't always been huge ratings hits, they have been critically acclaimed, and would provide the type of positive press that CBS actually did get upon his announcement.
Fuller has made no secret of his desire to get back into Trek. In fact, some of the unfounded rumors that circulated about Angela Basset were based on interviews he did more than two years ago, while running "Hannibal" on a different network, that he talked at length about how he would love to come back to Star Trek.
I can for sure tell you that Fuller was not "the last person" they looked at, unless you say "the first and last person they looked at." I can tell you that one of the things holding back the new Trek series was waiting for Fuller to become available, at least from what I was told. The Kurtzman concept wasn't just created last month. It's something he has had for a while now.
You can contact your 10 people you know personally in Hollywood to see if they were ever given the call to pitch or submitted a proposal for the new series when the call went out.
No one was asked to pitch. There was no "call" that "went out." Kurtzman, through K/O Paper Products (his production shingle) already have a long-standing relationship with CBS (who do you think is behind some of their hit shows, like "Hawaii Five-0" and "Limitless"?), and also is connected with the JJverse, meaning that an idea he comes to the table would likely get the Paramount/Abrams blessing.
Don't you find it odd that they have to find a new show runner? I thought Alex Kurtzman was the show runner?
I don't find it odd, because Kurtzman was never announced as the showrunner. Based on our original report in November, he was credited as the "developer," but never the showrunner.
http://1701news.com/node/963/node/1007/les-moonves-new-chair-cbs-corp.html
So he's now a executive producer?
That has not changed from November.
I think there will be some kind of an announcement of delay for this series if people are thinking the casting will be done later rather than soon. So far, there's been no such announcement.
There won't be. From everything I have heard, the show is on schedule. Do you think CBS doesn't know what schedule it needs to be on to launch a series? There is nothing about any of this that indicates any delay. The timing in early February was right to announce the showrunner, and you likely will have the lead announced sometime around June. But even if it's not announced yet, doesn't mean he (or she) is not cast.
