Terry Matalas Has Found Things to Do Besides Waiting For a Star Trek: Picard Spinoff

Ultimate month, it was revealed Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas was heading up a Disney+ current for Vision after his White variant departed WandaVision. Matalas now has one different enterprise lined up alongside that, which is good info for him, nevertheless not so good news for anyone holding out hope for him to proceed any of Picard’s lingering threads.

Per the Hollywood Reporter on Friday, Matalas has been tapped to jot down a remake of twentieth Century Fox’s 1985 film Enemy Mine. The distinctive film 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 will work collectively to survive, with Davidge lastly tasked with caring for Jerry’s baby. No matter its troubled manufacturing (along with the firing of genuine director Richard Loncraine) and low area office, the film took on a cult standing, and since it’s the summer season of remake announcements, what’s but yet one more to the itemizing?

Between that and Imaginative and prescient, Matalas goes to be busy for a bit, in flip which means it’ll doable be a while sooner than he’ll get to his proposed observe as a lot as Picard. Sooner than and after the current wrapped its final season remaining 12 months, he and several other different of the current’s actors actors talked up a hypothetical Star Trek: Legacy assortment that’d function as a result of the Subsequent Know-how equal to Star Trek: Uncommon New Worlds. Jeri Ryan’s Seven of 9 principal the grownup children of plenty of Subsequent Know-how characters on weekly adventures (with potential cameos from their dad and mother) was an thought followers truly glommed onto, nevertheless since Paramount didn’t get that ball rolling as quickly as Picard wrapped, Matalas purchased scooped up by Disney.

Hope for Legacy still exists among the many many strong, and Patrick Stewart’s even talked about a movie for his Enterprise captain is inside the works to help assemble off the current’s momentum. Must Matalas not return to Paramount as quickly as Imaginative and prescient and Enemy Mine wrap, that film would be the closest equal to his would-be current that Trek followers get.

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