Star Trek: Section 31 Has a Filming Date – Trek Central
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It's happening! It's really happening! Despite being the first Star Trek: Discovery spin-off to be announced, Star Trek: Section 31 has been in production hell ever since. Pandemics and its star, Michelle Yeoh's insanely in-demand work schedule have stuck it in the production pipeline. But after years of delay and an Academy Award, Section 31 will go ahead as a movie. Hints and rumours had already started to swirl before the official announcement. Of course, fans were sceptical, given the previous delays, but now we have solid evidence it's actually happening!

The Directors’ Guild of Ontario hotlist is a fairly reliable source for production guild news. Star Trek preproduction in the Greater Toronto Area usually shows up there before any official announcements of production dates.

Today’s hotlist update adds a rumour for a CBS Studios television movie to start production in October.

Is ‘Dovercourt’ the working pseudonym for S31 this round? Or is there some other made for streaming movie in the schedule for CBS Stages Mississauga? Only time will tell…

    • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      It’s a direct-to-streaming movie with the winner of the Best Actress Oscar.

      Calling it an ‘event’ is fair in this case.

      • totallynotarobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Movies pay more than series. “Direct to streaming” and “movie event” sound like contrivances to get around paying the cast and crew properly.

        Goofy move, given the current labour climate. And sociopathically extractive even outside that context.

        Won’t be watching this one. Y’all do as you please.

        • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          You seem to be assuming that a direct to streaming movie was Paramount’s preference rather than a second option to go forward in the face of Michelle Yeoh’s scheduling limitations following her winning just about every major award in 2022 for her performance in Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.

          The series buy was already decided but not announced due to the situation on Yeoh’s side. Kurtzman has basically salvaged the situation with a streaming movie. Hopefully, it will also get a limited IMAX air theatrical release too but there’s no word on that.