Author/director Edgar Wright is exhibiting off his connection to Star Trek—not for the primary time—by having a little bit of enjoyable with Star Wars icon Mark Hamill. He directed Paramount’s newest huge sci-fi film; may Star Trek be in his future?
Luke, I’m your troll
Edgar Wright directed Paramount’s newest franchise reboot, The Operating Man, which opens in two weeks. At a celebrity-packed occasion on the Paramount lot over the weekend, Wright bumped into Mark Hamill, the one and solely Luke Skywalker, and the pair posed for some good images on the Vogue World Hollywood occasion. Then, on Monday, Wright posted a narrative on Instagram utilizing one of many images with the message “Sorry Mark Hamill,” the place the director flashed a Vulcan salute. (Effectively, not precisely… subsequent time, thumb out, Edgar.) Wright additionally included music: a disco model of the Star Trek theme by Geoff Love. The expression on Hamill’s face reveals he will get the gag.
Wright’s Trek connections
This isn’t the primary time Edgar Wright has revealed a connection to Star Trek. We first reported on the award-winning author and director again in 2008 when he revealed he had seen a pre-release model of the 2009 Star Trek film and referred to as himself a “fortunate bastard,” summing up the expertise by taking one other swipe at Star Wars with “I can’t say way more than that, besides that it delivers all the products sorely missing from a sure trio of prequels… Thrilling stuff.”
Wright bought much more related with the sequel, as producer/director J.J. Abrams let Wright direct a scene for the 2013 movie Star Trek Into Darkness. And a few years later, when Roberto Orci exited the third Kelvin film mission, Wright was rumored to be on the brief checklist to direct what grew to become 2016’s Star Trek Past.
There are 2120 pictures in ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’. I directed one in every of them. Wanting ahead to seeing the opposite 2119. twitter.com/edgarwright/st…
— edgarwright (@edgarwright) Might 9, 2013
Hey Paramount, want a brand new director?
It’s unclear if Wright is a real Trekkie or if his connection to the current films is extra to do along with his longtime friendship and collaboration with Simon Pegg, who performed Scotty within the three Kelvin films. Wright directed Pegg’s nerdy 1999 sitcom Spaced and the 2 of them, together with Nick Frost, collaborated on the “Cornetto Trilogy” of motion comedy movies as nicely.
If Paramount is pleased with Edgar Wright’s work as a director and co-writer on The Operating Man and they’re searching for a brand new author/director for a Star Trek film (which apparently is a “precedence” for the brand new Skydance staff), then Wright may very well be a superb wager.
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