Noah Hawley wants Star Trek films to get back to exploration, showing humanity’s best qualities
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Director Noah Hawley, whose treatment of a Star Trek film was in the works and is currently on hold at Paramount Pictures, has given us some more details about his mindset and how he approached the next installment of the film franchise.
Hawley spoke to arts & entertainment website The Observer, in his latest round of publicity for his current project, Fargo season four, currently on FX and Hulu. In the piece, The Observer asked Hawley about how he plans to approach Star Trek 4 with a new crew, as he has indicated he would do, before.
Hawley emphasised Star Trek’s legacy as a franchise that favors exploration. “What I love about Star Trek is that it’s not a war story,” he said. “It’s not a story in which might makes right. It’s a story about exploration. It’s a story about creative problem solving.”
He went on to distance his vision for the film franchise from the one that was created by J.J. Abrams for Star Trek (2009). He said, “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 existing in the universe by showing its best qualities.”
Hawley appears to be on a charm offensive for his Star Trek script, this being at least the third Fargo-related interview he’s given where the talk has turned to Trek. For those not following along, back in August, Deadline reported that his film, along with two others in contention, had been placed on hold by incoming Paramount Pictures executive Emma Watts. There’s been no further word from either Paramount Pictures or “insiders” as to whether any of the films will go ahead, and Hawley seems to be taking advantage of the Fargo publicity tour to likewise drum up a little publicity for his script. Whether that tactic will work out, remains to be seen.
