Star Trek 3 Gets New Director!?!

When it comes to Star Trek 3 Gets New Director. We all know J.J. Abrams was not filming ST3 since he’s obligated to Star Wars, but now Roberto Orci has been replaced by Edgar Wright.

It appears that there is a new shortlist of director for the Star Trek franchise and there is only one names on the films director, Edgar Wright! That is great and all but Roberto would have had the chance to make his directing debut on the project, but now he’s out.

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Star Trek 3 Gets New Director Edgar Wright is already feel the pressure since Paramount wanting, the film NEEDS to be finished in time for the Star Trek 50th Anniversary in 2016, so they’ll need to work quickly to find a replacement.

Here is what CelebNMusic247.com is hearing via Deadline:

Orci will no longer be directing Star Trek 3, but he will apparently remain on board the project as a producer. The film was shaping up to be Orci’s baby, as he shepherded the screenplay with two writers he personally chose, John D. Payne and Patrick McKay. The project seemed to be moving forward rather smoothly, with Oscar-winning Life of Pi cinematographer Claudio Miranda coming aboard as director of photography and filming scheduled for Vancouver and Seoul. Abrams, who remains involved as a producer, even reached out and got Wililam Shatner to commit to a role in the film.

Deadline makes no mention of why Orci will no longer be directing [Update: Badass Digest is hearing that the script was the problem. Paramount shut production down last month while they battled over the direction of the screenplay], but the report does add a rather enticing nugget of information by noting that Edgar Wright is on the shortlist to take the job, among others. While it might seem at first glance that replacing another director on a franchise sequel would be atypical for Wright, who tends to develop his own projects, the filmmaker actually has some serious connections to this new Trek series. His longtime friend and collaborator Simon Pegg is one of the main cast members, of course, and Wright also visited the set of Star Trek Into Darkness and directed one shot of the film.

There doesn’t seem to be any tangible info on Wright’s involvement with the pic just yet, so right now it’s simply a possibility, but it would certainly be an interesting next step for the director after parting ways with Marvel’s Ant-Man due to creative differences with the studio. His Ant-Man co-writer and Attack the Block helmer Joe Cornish was previously a prime candidate to helm Trek 3, but Cornish ended up pursuing other project. Would Wright be willing to step into an already established franchise with a studio that’s targeting a closely approaching release date? That’s unclear, but the guy’s insanely talented so Trek would be lucky to have him. It’s not like he’s sitting idle, though, as the filmmaker is currently developing a couple of great-sounding original projects to direct in the near future.