“WandaVision” director
Matt Shakman jumps off ‘Star Trek’ movie
WandaVision director Shakman doesn’t have time for the next Star Trek movie. photo
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Who will be in the director’s chair on the next “Star Trek” adventure? The Paramount Pictures studio is keeping a low profile, but announces who won’t.
US director Matt Shakman, who has worked on productions such as “Game of Thrones”, “Dr. House”, “Good Wife” and the Marvel series “WandaVision”, was set to direct the next “Star Trek” – film has been announced. But now the 47-year-old is backing down.
Shakman is an “incredibly talented filmmaker,” it said on Friday in a statement from the Paramount Pictures studio, which was available to the German Press Agency. We regret that his schedule does not allow us to direct the next “Star Trek” film. The studio initially gave no information about a possible successor.
The still untitled sci-fi film was announced last year for December 2023. The Starship Enterprise crew was last seen in cinemas in 2016 with “Star Trek Beyond,” directed by Justin Lin.
Shakman is now in talks for the long-planned “Fantastic Four” reboot, US trade journals reported. In 2020, Marvel boss Kevin Feige announced a new “Fantastic Four” superhero film directed by Jon Watts, but the “Spider-Man” director dropped from the project this spring. “Fantastic Four” is scheduled to hit theaters in 2024.
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