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What the heck, while we're still young...

‘Attack The Block’s Joe Cornish Beaming Up For ‘Star Trek 3?’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday November 2, 2013 @ 9:00am PDT


EXCLUSIVE: We know that Paramount and Skydance Productions lost JJ Abrams as the director of the third installment of Star Trek when Abrams took on Star Wars. I’m hearing the studio is sweet on Joe Cornish to direct the next film. Cornish made his feature directorial debut on Attack The Block, the saga of a group of British youths who stave off an alien invasion in their rough neighborhood.

Cornish followed by being one of the writers on The Adventures Of Tin Tin, and he and Edgar Wright wrote the script for Ant-Man, the Marvel Studios film that Wright is going to direct. Long story short, he’s gotten exposure to bigger scale projects than Attack The Block, in which he admirably depicted a full scale alien invasion on a relatively small budget. Doing a movie like this would certainly put his career on a warp speed path. He’s already working with Paramount on the novel adaptation Snow Crash which he’s prepping to present to the studio.

It’s early days on this, but stay tuned. Paramount is readying the movie to shoot in summer, 2014. Cornish is repped by CAA.
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Attack the Block was pretty good, but I don't think it really made money... So I don't think this is very likely!
 
Yeah, I liked Attack the Block, but he'd be a very low profile choice, and one really more associated with comedy. To be honest, I wouldn't want him to direct a Trek movie. I don't think he's a good fit.

But then, I want a Trek movie that's a sober space mystery (imagine an enjoyable Star Trek: The Motion Picture).
 
So it's looking increasingly likely that Roberto Orci is going to be directing this film.

http://trekmovie.com/2014/05/09/roberto-orci-in-talks-to-direct-star-trek-3/

Apparently he's the only person even in talks. You'd think with a big franchise movie like Star Trek they'd have some actual name directors interested. But apparenlty not. So let's have the 9/11 Truther with no directing experience, who's co-written several terrible scripts and told fans who didn't like the shit Star Trek Into Darkness to "fuck off", direct the film. I'm sure Trek is in safe hands with him.
 
Jeez Louise. You'd really think SOMEONE else would step forward. I mean, a first time director could do an amazing job (someone in the comments points out that TWoK was only the second movie Nicholas Meyer directed) but probably not that particular guy.
 
I am betting he has some really good blackmail photos, maybe even videos.

You know Shatner's contract allowed him to direct two Trek films, and he only did the one....
 
I SUPPOSE looking on the positive side he is a Trek fan, he's involved in the ongoing comic which is actually quite good (thoguh I don't think he actually writes it) and he wanted Gary Mitchell as the villain in STID but JJ made them change it to Khan. MAYBE HE'LL SURPRISE US ALL (or they'll hire someone else.)
 
Well they cut the "don't worry, Hell is dark" line from the finished film so you can't really blame him for Nemesis (that line would have made it good.)
 
This feels like only JJ's mates get he job.

Disappointing, but who knows - maybe he will create his own path and use some of his experience on films such as Transformers, Cowboys and Aliens and Enders Game to create something out of the ordinary.

Or maybe he will just create a bells and whistles shit fest with lots of lens flares.
 
I've already told you what I heard, that Orci cock-blocked every director who came in for meetings on the project, making it look like anyone who helmed would be his dancing monkey. Who wants that when you already have pressure from the fans and the studio? Orci made a power move to guarantee his ass in the director's chair despite a huge lack of experience. How did Paramount allow this to happen? Skydance and Bad Robot - the production companies - were both behind Orci. What do they know? Is there going to be a ghost director?
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http://badassdigest.com/2014/05/13/paramount-hires-guy-with-no-directing-experience-for-star-trek-3/

How did he get so powerful?
 
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