But James McAvoy is already older than Patrick Stewart was when he began acting as Jean Luc in TNG.
James McAvoy Pitched 'Star Trek' Series About "Young Picard"
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https://deadline.com/2026/10/james-mcavoy-pitched-star-trek-series-young-picard-1237166532/
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Neverbeaten@lemmy.world 1 day ago
- ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 day ago
It’s very unclear when, exactly, this pitch was made.
But heck, Jean-Luc Picard was 59 to Stewart’s 47, so I’m not sure it matters.
brem@lemmy.world 23 hours ago If we’ve learned anything from the Hollywood elite; it’s indeed that age isn’t a problem.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 23 hours ago
A prequel! What a novel idea.
This should be an org chart at the Star Trek office today when they look at show ideas: is it another prequel? Yes - don’t pursue this idea. No - Allamarain! Move along home.
Granted, they got lucky (initially) with SNW. But that needed a backdoor pilot through Disco to get launched.
- brem@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Disco was mostly terrible (Hemmer was one of the best characters of all time tho) but Disco gave us SNW, which gave us hope.
SNW shit the beds a bit less, but it still stinks on the Enterprise. I love Muppets & even a musical episode could’ve been fine if the show wasn’t limited to 10 episodes a season…
It might be a while before we get another real Trek, the merger isn’t going to help.
We just need a real showrunner who doesn’t go to sleep in guilded Star Wars jammies.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 22 hours ago
Yeah, I have been looking at the veritable content drought we’ll be entering since there is nothing in production any more. And in streaming TV stuff takes ages to get off the ground or even renewed. I read on the grapevine that letting all existing contracts expire is a way to kick Kurtzman out and after that there is a chance for a fresh start under new leadership. But that will take time until after Academy S2 goes online. So considering all this stuff going on behind the scenes, I’m okay with Muppets and Casablanca in space. Whatever! Better than nothing.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Well, if it’s paramount I can’t watch it, so I’ll enjoy my middle aged Picard
SaltySalamander@fedia.io 3 hours ago
Well, if it’s paramount I can’t watch it
How far internet culture has fallen that you truly believe this.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
The scifi police/hospital procedural needs a high-school drama tie in.
Please… Lets just have some new characters and new ideas. The problem is the people making Star Trek for the last 20 years have no fucking clue what makes Star Trek good.
Bro what? it’s not a real show relax
That’s an awfully strong reaction to a rejected pitch…
EarMaster@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
But it’s true. Fan service can bring you only so far. Lower Decks has tons of fan service but it’s almost never the main purpose of the story.
Was it? Why?
And yet, it’s accurate.
How many more times do we have to have fans tell Paramount they don’t know what they’re doing, have them tell us they do, plow ahead anyway with bad ideas that we could see 100 miles away, have it completely fail, and then cancel it and try it AGAIN?
We are at least 3 series past the point where giving them the benefit of the doubt is madness.