Main photography has started according to the much anticipated premiere season of ‘Strange New Worlds’ to Variety.
This latest series of series follows the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), mr. Spock (Ethan Peck) and number one (Rebecca Romijn) on the USS Enterprise and are essentially a prelude to “The Original Series” before James T. Kirk took command of the spaceship in the Constitution class.
You may recall that while the crew of the USS Discovery defeated the evil AI, called Control, it stored the atmosphere data and used the winding red signal time travel technology to jump into the disappointing 950 years of the future. second season finale of “Discovery” the crew of the USS Enterprise all lagged behind in the 23rd century. Well, it’s so had to.
Fans have been campaigning for a Pike-focused spin-off since the second season of “Discovery” and Mount told Space.com, “I’m not going to crawl around and be aloof about it. I would like to do it [play Pike again]. Then it was on May 15, 2020 officially confirmed on social media by Mount, Peck, Romijn and executive producer Alex Kurtzman.
Peck recently posted a photo on Instagram of … er, a shopping trolley half buried in the snow, geotagged in Toronto, indicating he was back in Ontario.
However, what will be different about the production of ‘Strange New Worlds’ is that it will benefit from the virtual, artificial reality video wall launched by several VFX companies, including ILM and Pixomondo, for the production of ‘The Mandalorian’. ‘. A source told Space.com that CBS had invested in two such institutions, one for ‘Strange New Worlds’ and the other one that would be used in season 4 of ‘Discovery’. This should allow for greater world-building (and perhaps better storytelling) within the “Star Trek” universe without the need and limitations that the on-site recording offers. Let’s face it, Iceland can only double for so many alien planets.
Speaking of bad story writing, the fourth season of “Discovery” has also start main photography in Toronto and after more than half a year of delay, the cast of ‘Picard’ is back to production for the second season. The air dates have not been officially confirmed, but there are many rumors that we expect to see at least two of these three shows in 2021.
Kalinda Vazquez has been hired by Paramount Pictures to write a new ‘Star Trek’ movie, starring JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot production, Deadline reports. According to IMDb, Vazquez’s writing credits on “Discovery” include “Terra Firma, Part 2‘(S03, E10) and the’ Short Trek ‘episode’ Ask Not ‘, however, she is also a’ consultant producer ‘for the last six or so third episode of the third season. Vazquez was apparently even named after a character played by Barbara Bouchet from ‘The Original Series’ episode ‘By Any Other Name’ (S02, E22). This news would confirm that Paramount is moving forward again with a big screen “Star Trek” feature to Noah Hawley’s fixed effort. However, the trio of “Trek” movies produced by Bad Robot were completely horrible, with each gradually getting worse than its predecessor.
Kate Mulgrew confirm it her return for Season 2 of “Prodigy” and the first season will air later this year. Somewhat disappointingly, the proposed “Section 31” spinoff show focusing on Phillipa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) is still “talks”, and will only now take place as one of the five current Star Trek projects – “Discovery”, ” Prodigy, “Lower Deck,” “Picard” and “Strange New Worlds” – are done, According to Alex Kurtzman and Paramount +’s head of programming, Julie McNamara.
The official pressure on crowdfunding for the documentary project “Star Trek: Voyager” has finally launched and as of this writing it has passed astonishingly half a million dollars, light years past its original target.
Finally, CBS All Access it became Paramount + from 4 March and as such every incarnation of ‘Star Trek’ is now available there. New app updates are available for Android and iOS, but your existing logins should be transferred if you were already a subscriber. Some users have reported issues with Roku, but if you update the program (Home> Settings> System> System Update), it should work.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to Toronto as the capital of Canada. Toronto is the capital of the Canadian province of Ontario, but the country’s capital is in Ottawa.
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