Every now and then, a mooted movie project just sounds so right that you can almost touch it, even if it has about as much chance of actually being shown in multiplexes as Vladimir Putin does of winning the Nobel peace prize. Reports this week suggest that Cate Blanchett, the much garlanded doyenne of serious cinema, was not so long ago being lined up to star in a Star Trek movie for Noah Hawley, the director of Fargo (the TV edition) and Legion.
Regular readers of this blogpost will be aware that Paramount decided to go a different way with the next instalment in the continuing adventures of the Starship Enterprise. They’re bringing back Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk and Zachary Quinto’s Spock, along with their rebooted comrades from the JJ Abrams-led trilogy, but Wandavision director Matt Shakman will be the man in the command chair instead.
