{"id":69859,"date":"2014-12-15T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=69859"},"modified":"2014-12-16T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T10:10:52","slug":"star-trek-3-director-shortlist-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/star-trek-3-director-shortlist-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek 3 has 5 possible directors: who&#8217;s your pick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69860\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/StarTrek-Karl-Urban-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69860\" alt=\"Karl Urban in Star Trek\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/StarTrek-Karl-Urban-.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/StarTrek-Karl-Urban-.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/StarTrek-Karl-Urban--300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karl Urban in Star Trek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong><em>Star Trek 3<\/em><\/strong> director job is still very much up for grabs and it looks like Paramount is narrowing down its selection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Duncan Jones has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManMadeMoon\/status\/544531841781223424\">tweeted<\/a> that he won&#8217;t be pursuing the gig. &#8220;Very flattering being on short list for <strong><em>Star Trek<\/em><\/strong>, but won&#8217;t be doing it. Absolutely MUST make my own thing next, or I&#8217;ll die of old age!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Duncan-Jones-tweet.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69873\" alt=\"Duncan Jones tweet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Duncan-Jones-tweet.png\" width=\"616\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Duncan-Jones-tweet.png 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Duncan-Jones-tweet-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2014\/12\/star-trek-3-director-jj-abrams-rupert-wyatt-morten-tyldum-justin-lin-1201325612\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports that five names are on the list, including Rupert Wyatt (<strong><em>Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes<\/em><\/strong>), Duncan Jones (<strong><em>Moon<\/em><\/strong>), Morten Tyldum (<strong><em>The Imitation Game<\/em><\/strong>), Daniel Espinosa (<strong><em>Safe House<\/em><\/strong>) and Justin Lin (<strong><em>Fast and Furious 6<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The site notes that Wyatt looks like the frontrunner at the moment, stating that the &#8220;Studio is high on and has met with&#8221; the director, who has Mark Wahlberg drama <strong><em>The Gambler<\/em><\/strong> close to release. They also note that scheduling conflicts may take some of these names out of the running, as Espinosa is set to make <strong><em>Boston Strong<\/em><\/strong> and Jones is still deep in production on\u00a0<strong><em>Warcraft<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, they do point out that Edgar Wright is no longer being mentioned. Boo.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Star Trek 3<\/em>\u00a0is set for a 2016 cinema release. Keep up with the latest sci-fi news with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3252\/s\/scifinow-issue-100\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of potential Star Trek 3 directors just got shorter and Edgar Wright is out of the running<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":69860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3326],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/StarTrek-Karl-Urban-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}