Jonathan Frakes on Directing Next Generation, Lower Decks
This interview goes assorted places, but it has a small interesting bit about next year’s Discovery finale.
“I directed the first half of the finale of Season 5, which turned out to be the real finale… And then [‘Discovery’ executive producer and director] Olatunde Osunsanmi had to go back up and do two or three days of new stuff to actually make the finale the finale." https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/jonathan-frakes-star-trek-director-strange-new-worlds-lower-decks-crossover-1235680140/
I really hope they were able to come up with something satisfying with those reshoots. The series deserves a good sendoff.
I hope that the series finale is satisfying, too. Jonathan Frakes and Olatunde Osunsanmi as directors of it is a good sign. Jonathan Frakes + Star Trek = awesome. I enjoy a lot of Olatunde Osunsanmi’s Star Trek work as a director, including one of my favored DSC episodes, “What’s Past Is Prologue” (s1e13). That episode has everything. Action, drama, pathos. I love Saru’s delivery of, “That is all I needed to see. Fire!” Fabulous spark igniting the action of that scene. I enjoy DSC.
This series deserves to be sent off.
Good interview with more than the usual proportion of new content and perspective.
And Frakes being Frakes, we actually get some insight into how the unexpected Discovery series finale was managed.
