Noah Hawley Movie Seems Dead

[KepperC]

https://deadline.com/2020/11/fargo-...es-noah-hawley-interview-spoilers-1234622930/

And is Star Trek possibly still in the cards for you at the new Emma Watts-run Paramount or is that too on hold?

NH: It doesn’t appear to be in my immediate future. I think when Emma came in, she took a look at the franchise and wanted to go in a different direction with it. But you know, life is long, we were very close to production but in this business that doesn’t mean much. You got to get out of the gate to be in the race if you know what I mean.​

 

[fireproof78]

Not much of a surprise, if disappointing. Though, with the whole pandemic mess I can imagine it put a pause on a bit while focusing on what they had fully developed.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Read the title wrong.

I thought it said "Noah Hathaway is dead".

 

[donners22]

It never really felt alive.

The wild optimist in me hopes the "different direction" is the Tarantino film, but that feels at least as dead.

 

[KepperC]

Not much of a surprise, if disappointing. Though, with the whole pandemic mess I can imagine it put a pause on a bit while focusing on what they had fully developed.

Opposite for me. I could see ViacomCBS saying they would rather that idea was stretched into its own series.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The story was reportely about a space pandemic, which was no longer a fun fictional thing.

But until Covid is over, so are big budget movies. They just don't know it yet.

 

[Smellmet]

Even without this pandemic I thought it was dead. The movie side of the franchise is in deep freeze now.

 

[Khan 2.0]

You ok Noah?, how do you feel..
[cue Horneresque music]

 

[valkyrie013]

Never thought of the space pandemic as a good idea.. So.. Yay?
Still want a new movie.. One that can bring new blood in.

 

[KepperC]

Never thought of the space pandemic as a good idea.. So.. Yay?

It'd be relevant to real-life. But that realism just won't translate in cinema box office.

 

[fireproof78]

Opposite for me. I could see ViacomCBS saying they would rather that idea was stretched into its own series.

Not if they have to add more assets to it.

They have more than enough to support the TV side that it makes sense to maintain that.

 

[C.E. Evans]

IMO, this has less to do with Hawley's space pandemic story being timely and more to do with regime change at Paramount. It seems that whenever there's a major shakeup in management, whatever production from the previous regime that didn't have cameras already rolling was generally eighty-sixed by the new boss or bosses. Hawley's movie seems to be in the same boat that Jendresen's Star Trek: The Beginning was in back in 2006. Back then, it was the newly-arrived studio head Gail Berman that buried Jendresen's movie. In 2020, it seems to be the newly-arrived studio head Emma Watts that's done the same to Hawley's movie.

I wouldn't be surprised if a year from now, there will be news about the fourteenth Star Trek movie with a Watts-approved script and director behind it.

 

[Kor]

A space pandemic would be an interesting sci-fi concept. But a blockbuster space opera movie needs a larger-than-life personal villain instead.

Kor

 

[Visitor1982]

A space pandemic would be an interesting sci-fi concept. But a blockbuster space opera movie needs a larger-than-life personal villain instead.

Kor

Nope. Interstellar, Arrival and many others didn't have one. Star Trek movies are boring because the powers that be always seem to think they need a big baddie who wants to destroy earth and/or the Federation.

Let's do something different for a change.

 

[fireproof78]

I'd settle for a villain who just wants to kill our heroes. Personal grudge match.

 

[Kor]

Nope. Interstellar, Arrival and many others didn't have one. Star Trek movies are boring because the powers that be always seem to think they need a big baddie who wants to destroy earth and/or the Federation.

Let's do something different for a change.

I still haven't seen Arrival, but Interstellar wasn't exactly trying to be "space opera" like Trek, so it doesn't belong in the same category.

Kor

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Read the title wrong.

I thought it said "Noah Hathaway is dead".

BOXEY!!! NOOOOOOO!!!

 

[Relayer1]

Ths was the on I was marginally interested in. Hawley, probably a new ship/crew...

 

[C.E. Evans]

Let's see...2013. Yep. Enough time has passed in Hollywood for Khan (now played by Justin Bieber) to return and terrorize Kirk (now played by Nick Jonas).

 

[Guy Gardener]

Let's see...2013. Yep. Enough time has passed in Hollywood for Khan (now played by Justin Bieber) to return and terrorize Kirk (now played by Nick Jonas).

Justin is an old man with a bad mustache. The kids don't care. His audience is approaching middle age. His father in law Alec Baldwin probably had a serious conversation over cigars about maturity before he permitted the marriage.

Nick Jonas from the Jumani reboot, or Scream Queens, or Dash & Lilly. .. That guy is awesome!