Submitted 1 year ago by StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website
The Directors’ Guild of Ontario hotlist is a fairly reliable source for production guild news. Star Trek preproduction in the Greater Toronto Area usually shows up there before any official announcements of production dates.
Today’s hotlist update adds a rumour for a CBS Studios television movie to start production in October.
Is ‘Dovercourt’ the working pseudonym for S31 this round? Or is there some other made for streaming movie in the schedule for CBS Stages Mississauga? Only time will tell…
WTF is a “movie event”? An excuse to pay the cast and crew less?
It’s a direct-to-streaming movie with the winner of amthe Best Actress Oscar.
Calling it an ‘event’ is fair in this case.
Movies pay more than series. “Direct to streaming” and “movie event” sound like contrivances to get around paying the cast and crew properly.
Goofy move, given the current labour climate. And sociopathically extractive even outside that context.
Won’t be watching this one. Y’all do as you please.
Worf and Raffi dismantling section 31 while Georgiou fights then is this only movie I want to watch
Ok, I’m very much looking forward the S31 movie.
However, preproduction started on the show under another pseudonym originally back before it was stood down for the pandemic.
Cautiously optimistic here.
Cautious optimism fits my thoughts. With the Section 31 movie, I’d welcome Shaza Latif returning as Ash. I think Georgiou and Ash have potential for an interesting (non-romantic) dynamic.
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I am really struggling to get excited about a Trek entry for the first time in my life with this one.
Ironically, I’ve always thought a S31 show could work if handled like “Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy” in space. However how they handled it in Dis makes me think this will be Mission Impossible in space and that doesn’t sound appealing to me.
VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 1 year ago
Part of the problem is that they seem to think S31 are the good guys.
Nmyownworld@startrek.website 1 year ago
I think of Section 31 as the Federation’s dirty little secret, operating off the books, weapon of last resort. I wasn’t surprised that the Federation was capable of things that didn’t fit its public doctrine when the utter destruction of the people of Federation by an outside, more powerful force was nigh. The Federation leans into diplomacy, but I never thought it impossible for them to have bag of tricks – Section 31. To me, the Federation would let the Federation fall because, say, member worlds left. But, not when something is about to destroy most or all of the people of the Federation.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 year ago
In what way have they ever been portrayed as the good guys?
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 1 year ago
The latest rumours before the strike characterized the movie as a cross between MI and Guardians of the Galaxy.
If they broaden out an ensemble to include other legacy characters across the franchise with S31, intelligence and/or temporal shenanigans, it could be a lot of fun.
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So, loads of quippy dialogue and OTT action scenes? That hasn’t sold me on the idea.