Working title is "Chaos Theory" and will now be directed by Mark Pellington.
News Next live-action Short Trek has a working title and new director
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Theory for director change: Olatunde Osunsanmi is directing episodes 5/6, 7/8 or 9/10 of the Picard series, so can't commit to both?
Can't wait to see it!
Sounds legit.....
I think that's just a placeholder date. Post-production work on Star Trek is done in Los Angeles, so the Directors Guild of Canada likely doesn't know or care about those dates.
They're sharing resources with Discovery, which restarts production right afterwards.
Is this a shit attempt at a sexist joke?
I’m not being sexist. Discovery casting white males as either idiots (Conolly) or evil (Lorca, Leland) is what’s sexist.
That and saying they prefer female directors. What a ridiculous age we live in where saying that is acceptable.
Or do you mean a shit attempt at a sexist joke like Georgiou’s “tiny male brains” quote from earlier in the season? Hilarious to think of the double standards uproar if that had been a man calling women’s brains tiny.
Georgiou is a genocidal dictator from an explicitly racist and sexist universe. I get that they're slowly redeeming her, but she's still not supposed to be the perfect sign of virtue.
Only in Star Trek can you be a genocidal dictator and still be redeemed!
Stamets - A white male who is brilliant and not evil. Or does he not count because he's gay?
But then, white men aren't the only men in the future. We've got Bryce, Rhys, and Culber all part of the core crew. They've all been shown to be competent and not-evil.
You got a source on this quote? Here's Wikipedia's list of episodes with directors listed. Female directors are bolded:
(EDIT: The following has been corrected because I mistakenly thought Olatunde Osunsanmi was a woman. I had it in my head that that was the name I saw for the director of the Picard pilot, and I knew the director was female. I forgot that it was Hanelle Culpepper who is directing that pilot. I've corrected the list and the math below.)
Season 1
1 - "The Vulcan Hello" - David Semel
2 - "Battle at the Binary Stars" - Adam Kane
3 - "Context Is for Kings" - Akiva Goldsman
4 - "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry" - Olatunde Osunsanmi
5 - "Choose Your Pain" - Lee Rose
6 - "Lethe" - Douglas Aarniokoski
7 - "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" - David M. Barrett
8 - "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum" - John S. Scott
9 - "Into the Forest I Go" - Chris Byrne
10 - "Despite Yourself" - Jonathan Frakes
11 - "The Wolf Inside" - T. J. Scott
12 - "Vaulting Ambition" - Hanelle M. Culpepper
13 - "What's Past Is Prologue" - Olatunde Osunsanmi
14 - "The War Without, The War Within" - David Solomon
15 - "Will You Take My Hand?" - Akiva Goldsman
Season 2
16 - "Brother" - Alex Kurtzman
17 - "New Eden" - Jonathan Frakes
18 - "Point of Light" - Olatunde Osunsanmi
19 - "An Obol for Charon" - Lee Rose
20 - "Saints of Imperfection" - David Barrett
21 - "The Sound of Thunder" - Douglas Aarniokoski
22 - "Light and Shadows" - Marta Cunningham
23 - "If Memory Serves" - T. J. Scott
24 - "Project Daedalus" - Jonathan Frakes
25 - "The Red Angel" - Hanelle M. Culpepper
26 - "Perpetual Infinity" - Maja Vrvilo
27 - "Through the Valley of Shadows" - Douglas Aarniokoski
28 - "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I" - Olatunde Osunsanmi
29 - "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II" - Olatunde Osunsanmi
That's three female directors versus twelve male directors, with five out of twenty-nine episodes having been directed between these four female directors. That means roughly about 83% of Discovery episodes are still directed by male directors.
Men are not being victimized by efforts to give females a chance. Directing in Hollywood is still overwhelmingly a male profession. Things are simply being evened out.
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Personally, I prefer Directors that produce really entertaining episodes.
What their personal or physical preferred sex is, really doesn't come into play in my mind.
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