Well, Paramount and Skydance Productions are reportedly interested in getting Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) to take over the director's chair from J.J. Abrams as the favorite contender for the third installment of the Star Trek film franchise.
The writer and director of the 2011 cult hit was among the many rumored names to be up for the gig. Several other rumors have included his frequent collaborator Edgar Wright as well as Rise of the Planet of the Apes‘ Rupert Wyatt and Jon M. Chu, the director of G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
Beside The Adventures of Tintin, Cornish has also co-written the upcoming Marvel Studios movie Ant-Man with the Shaun of the Dead director Wright.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are writing this time around and they're hopeful for a summer 2014 start date shoot at a potential summer 2016 release.
Plot details haven't yet been revealed so far.
As for Cornish, he certainly knows how to combine action and humor effectively, which is an essential part of the rebooted version of Star Trek franchise. He's already working with Paramount on the big screen adaptation of Neal Stephenson‘s cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, which he's prepping to present to the studio.
Does this choice make a lick of sense to you?
