Terry Matalas Has Found Things to Do Besides Waiting For a Star Trek: Picard Spinoff

Last month, it was revealed Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas was heading up a Disney+ amusement for Vision aft his White variant departed WandaVision. Matalas present has different task lined up alongside that, which is bully quality for him, but not truthful bully quality for anyone holding retired anticipation for him to proceed immoderate of Picard’s lingering threads.

Per the Hollywood Reporter connected Friday, Matalas has been tapped to constitute a remake of 20th Century Fox’s 1985 movie Enemy Mine. The archetypal movie starred Dennis Quaid arsenic a quality aviator named Davidge and the precocious Lou Gossett Jr. arsenic Jerry, a reptilian alien who clang onshore connected an inhospitable satellite and person to enactment unneurotic to survive, with Davidge eventually tasked with caring for Jerry’s baby. Despite its troubled accumulation (including the firing of archetypal manager Richard Loncraine) and debased container office, the movie took connected a cult status, and since it’s the summertime of remake announcements, what’s 1 much to the list?

Between that and Vision, Matalas is going to beryllium engaged for a bit, successful crook meaning it’ll apt beryllium a portion earlier helium gets to his projected travel up to Picard. Before and aft the amusement wrapped its last play past year, helium and respective of the show’s actors actors talked up a hypothetical Star Trek: Legacy series that’d relation arsenic the Next Generation equivalent to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Jeri Ryan’s Seven of Nine starring the big kids of respective Next Generation characters connected play adventures (with imaginable cameos from their parents) was an thought fans truly glommed onto, but since Paramount didn’t get that shot rolling erstwhile Picard wrapped, Matalas got scooped up by Disney.

Hope for Legacy still exists among the cast, and Patrick Stewart’s adjacent said a movie for his Enterprise skipper is successful the works to assistance physique disconnected the show’s momentum. Should Matalas not instrumentality to Paramount erstwhile Vision and Enemy Mine wrap, that movie whitethorn beryllium the closest equivalent to his would-be amusement that Trek fans get.

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