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.

  • NuPNuA@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I am really struggling to get excited about a Trek entry for the first time in my life with this one.

    Ironically, I’ve always thought a S31 show could work if handled like “Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy” in space. However how they handled it in Dis makes me think this will be Mission Impossible in space and that doesn’t sound appealing to me.

      • Nmyownworld@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think of Section 31 as the Federation’s dirty little secret, operating off the books, weapon of last resort. I wasn’t surprised that the Federation was capable of things that didn’t fit its public doctrine when the utter destruction of the people of Federation by an outside, more powerful force was nigh. The Federation leans into diplomacy, but I never thought it impossible for them to have bag of tricks – Section 31. To me, the Federation would let the Federation fall because, say, member worlds left. But, not when something is about to destroy most or all of the people of the Federation.