{"id":58341,"date":"2022-08-27T21:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T21:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/potential-fantastic-four-director-matt-shakman-drops-out-of-his-star-trek-movie\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T21:58:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T21:58:01","slug":"potential-fantastic-four-director-matt-shakman-drops-out-of-his-star-trek-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/potential-fantastic-four-director-matt-shakman-drops-out-of-his-star-trek-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Fantastic Four director Matt Shakman drops out of his Star Trek movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disney appears to have once again screwed up Paramount’s hapless efforts to get another one of these damn Star Trek <\/em>movies made, ace THR <\/em>reports that director Matt Shakman\u2014who’s reportedly in talks to take on the Fantastic Four <\/em>movie for Disney’s Marvel Studios<\/span>\u2014has just dropped out<\/span> of directing one of those Trek <\/em>movies that the studio is constantly promising it’ll make but never, ever does.<\/p>\n

Shakman, who picked up Emmy nominations in 2020 and 2021 for his work on The Great<\/em><\/span> <\/em>and WandaVision<\/em><\/span>respectively, has been in the news lately, due to reports that he’s being courted to take over the also-pretty-endless efforts to make a Fantastic Four <\/em>movie that isn’t baseline embarrassing for all involved. Prior to that, though, he’d signed on to direct the Star Trek <\/em>movie that wasn’t the one Quentin Tarantino was gonna make (dead<\/span>), or the one Noah Hawley was gonna make (also dead<\/span>). Details about Shakman’s movie were also very <\/em>wobbly, though, to the point that nobody can even say whether Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Salda\u00f1a\u2014who, you’d be forgiven for forgetting, used to make Star Trek <\/em>movies together several years ago\u2014were going to be in the cast.<\/p>\n

The mildly hilarious thing about this bit of cross-studio apparent poaching, though, is that it’s not the first time it’s happened between these two companies: It’s hard not to see parallels here to the tug-of-war<\/span> that surrounded Star Wars Trek <\/em>rebooter JJ Abrams a few years back, after Paramount signed him to a first-look deal\u2014and then had to watch as her ran off to make a Disney movie every time the studio opted to blow up his phone. (To be clear, Shakman isn’t under the same kind of agreement Abrams was, but the shared willingness to dump Star Trek <\/em>to work for The Mouse is still amusing, at least to us.) <\/p>\n

Shakman’s Fantastic Four <\/em>plans are still in the \u201cin talks\u201d phase (although it’s hard not to note that clearing off this calendar like this seems like a promising sign). Meanwhile, Paramount hasn’t managed to get a Star Trek <\/em>movie into theaters since beyond<\/em><\/span> <\/em>in 2016, even as the franchise has had a renaissance of sorts on the studio’s streaming service, Paramount+. The studio issued a statement this weekend to THR<\/em><\/span>praising Shakman’s talents:<\/p>\n

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Matt Shakman is an incredibly talented filmmaker, and we regret the timing didn’t align for him to direct our upcoming Star Trek<\/em> film. We are grateful for his many contributions, are excited about the creative vision of this next chapter and look forward to bringing it to audiences all around the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Matt Shakmanphoto: Rich Fury (Getty Images) Disney appears to have once again screwed up Paramount’s hapless efforts to get another one of these damn Star Trek movies made, ace THR reports that director Matt Shakman\u2014who’s reportedly in talks to take on the Fantastic Four movie for Disney’s Marvel Studios\u2014has just dropped out of directing one …<\/p>\n

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