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Final month, it was revealed Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas was heading up a Disney+ present for Imaginative and prescient after his White variant departed WandaVision. Matalas now has one other undertaking lined up alongside that, which is nice information for him, however not so excellent news for anybody holding out hope for him to proceed any of Picard’s lingering threads.
Per the Hollywood Reporter on Friday, Matalas has been tapped to put in writing a remake of twentieth Century Fox’s 1985 movie Enemy Mine. The unique movie starred Dennis Quaid as a human pilot named Davidge and the late Lou Gossett Jr. as Jerry, a reptilian alien who crash land on an inhospitable planet and must work collectively to outlive, with Davidge finally tasked with caring for Jerry’s child. Regardless of its troubled manufacturing (together with the firing of authentic director Richard Loncraine) and low field workplace, the movie took on a cult standing, and because it’s the summer time of remake bulletins, what’s another to the record?
Between that and Imaginative and prescient, Matalas goes to be busy for a bit, in flip which means it’ll seemingly be some time earlier than he will get to his proposed observe as much as Picard. Earlier than and after the present wrapped its closing season final yr, he and a number of other of the present’s actors actors talked up a hypothetical Star Trek: Legacy sequence that’d operate because the Subsequent Era equal to Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds. Jeri Ryan’s Seven of 9 main the grownup youngsters of a number of Subsequent Era characters on weekly adventures (with potential cameos from their dad and mom) was an thought followers actually glommed onto, however since Paramount didn’t get that ball rolling as soon as Picard wrapped, Matalas bought scooped up by Disney.
Hope for Legacy nonetheless exists among the many solid, and Patrick Stewart’s even stated a film for his Enterprise captain is within the works to assist construct off the present’s momentum. Ought to Matalas not return to Paramount as soon as Imaginative and prescient and Enemy Mine wrap, that movie often is the closest equal to his would-be present that Trek followers get.
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