James McKinnon confirms creative differences likely a factor in Kelvin 4 failure to start production in 2022
James McKinnon confirms creative differences likely a factor in Kelvin 4 failure to start production in 2022
James MacKinnon has doing one more feature film as the last thing on his Star Trek bucket list.
As much as most of us have long had any remaining interest in a fourth Kelvin movie long exhausted by the endless repetition of hype and failure, there does seem to be more confirmation of significant creative differences on the script that was in development in 2022.
James MacKinnon, longtime makeup designer, shared some context during an interview on his work on Picard and future ambitions. He explained that he was hired by Matt Shankman in 2022 to work on preproduction but was fired after a week when the work shut down.
“We were supposed to shoot in the middle of [2022] and it was supposed to come out the following year [2023], but I think a script rewrite went in a different direction.”
This aligns with previous comments from Zoe Saldaña that creative issues around the script were a factor in the movie not going ahead.
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Having Cumberbatch play Khan was by far one of the most egregious examples of Hollywood white washing a character. I don't care what weird explanation they gave in some comic, to everyone watching the movie, we saw the whitest man on earth, play a guy named Khan Noonien Singh
@Son_of_dad @StillPaisleyCat To be fair, Ricardo Montalbán also didn't have the appropriate ethnic ancestry either...
Reportedly Benicio Del Toro dropped out and Cumberbatch was a last minute replacement.