Noah Hawley Explains How His STAR TREK Movie Fell Apart Due to Stupid Hollywood Executives
Here’s more proof that Hollywood continues to be run by a lot of stupid Hollywood executives. Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley was developing a Star Trek movie for Paramount Pictures at one point and it ended up being scrapped. Just wait until you hear how the project fell apart. It’s so disappointing that Hollywood is still in this insane mindset. He shared the following details during an interview with THR:
“What I found with Star Trek was I got onto the runway and then there was a managerial changeover. In retrospect, it’s not that they killed the movie. It’s that I got as far as I did with a wholly original idea, until someone said, 'Well, wait a minute, what are we even doing with this valuable IP? Just giving it to him to make up a story? That’s not how corporate filmmaking works.' So, if the call came in to do a big franchise film again, it would have to come with a sense of, 'We want you to do your version of it.'“
No wonder Paramount Pictures can’t get a new Star Trek movie off the ground! They’ve got people like this guy running things over there. What a shame. Hawley is a proven great storyteller, and I have no doubt he would have delivered a great, original Star Trek story!
It was previously explained that the story for his film would have centered around “a virus that wipes out vast parts of the known universe.” He also revealed that he was also looking to cast Cate Blanchett in the movie.
Hawley previously opened up about the project and shared some details on what his vision for Star Trek was, and how he was looking to bring back the smart aspect of the franchise. He explains that his story was less about action and more about exploration and creative problem solving:
"What I love about Star Trek is that it's not a war story. It's not a story in which might makes right. It's a story about exploration. It's a story about creative problem solving. My favorite moment in all of Star Trek is in Wrath of Khan when Kirk puts on his reading glasses to lower Khan's shields. It's a brief moment that is so exhilarating because he's using the best tool he has, which is his mind. As much as I like the Chris Pine movies they were mostly about running from one end of the ship to the other to put out a fire, to stop a thing, and then before he could catch his breath he had to do something else. They're much more action movies and what I wanted to get back to was this idea of humanity justifying existence in the universe by showing its best qualities."
Hawley also said that the film would connect to franchise history, drawing a comparison to how his Fargo series is tied to the 1996 film. He explained:
“We’re not doing Kirk and we’re not doing Picard. It’s a start from scratch that then allows us to do what we did with Fargo, where for the first three hours you go, ‘Oh, it really has nothing to do with the movie,’ and then you find the money. So you reward the audience with a thing that they love.”
It sucks that Paramount didn’t see that they had a great concept for Star Trek in front of them and didn’t move forward with it. I guess the concept was too smart for them, over their heads. My faith in Hollywood will continue to dwindle because, for some reason, some people with no creative vision are running things.