{"id":29936,"date":"2013-08-06T07:38:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T11:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=29936"},"modified":"2020-01-08T08:12:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:12:03","slug":"rupert-wyatt-star-trek-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/06\/rupert-wyatt-star-trek-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Wyatt Latest Lead In STAR TREK 3 Director Rumor Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/RupertWyatt1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29937\" alt=\"RupertWyatt1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/RupertWyatt1.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/05\/star-trek-3-jon-m-chu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yesterday<\/a>, we questioned a report that <strong>GI Joe: Retaliation<\/strong> director Jon M Chu was at the top of Paramount Studios&#8217; shortlist of candidates to helm <strong>Star Trek 3<\/strong>, now that franchise revivalist J. J. Abrams had moved on to <strong>Star Wars: Episode VII<\/strong>. Seems like a lot of other people questioned that report as well, as an entirely different lead candidate may be starting to emerge &#8211; <strong>Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes<\/strong> director Rupert Wyatt.<\/p>\n<p>Both the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170314110052\/http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/08\/05\/jon-m-chu-star-trek-3_n_3709931.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huffington Post<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/collider.com\/star-trek-3-news-rupert-wyatt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Collider<\/a> reached out to Chu&#8217;s representatives who stated that their client had not been contacted about the project. That doesn&#8217;t mean that he isn&#8217;t under consideration by the studio brass, but I would think at this point there would have been some contact, if only to see what Chu&#8217;s schedule looked like for the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140816045706\/http:\/\/www.cinematallica.com\/exclusivo-jon-chu-isnt-the-frontrunner-for-star-trek-3-but-we-know-who-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cinematallica<\/a> is positing a new frontrunner for the Star Trek 3 job in the form of Wyatt and that he &#8220;is virtually a lock at this stage in the game.&#8221; It also states from their own unnamed source that Chu&#8217;s name was floated more so to gauge fan reaction than anything else. Now I should note that Cinematallica is relatively new on the scene, so they don&#8217;t have a proven track record one way or another when it comes to this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt is currently attached to three projects &#8211; <strong>Birdsong<\/strong>, <strong>Night Film<\/strong>, and <strong>Agent 13<\/strong> &#8211; though I suppose Paramount could jump them all in favor of getting <strong>Trek 3<\/strong> up and running for what everyone is presuming will be a 2016 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Another rumored frontrunner has emerged.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/06\/rupert-wyatt-star-trek-3\/\" title=\"Rupert Wyatt Latest Lead In STAR TREK 3 Director Rumor Race\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2593,6238],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-rupert-wyatt","8":"tag-star-trek-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29936"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=29936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}