On Friday night it was announced that Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness co-writer Roberto Orci has vacated the director’s chair on Star Trek 3, leaving Paramount Pictures with the task of securing a replacement in time to meet the studio’s planned 2016 release date.
While names such as Edgar Wright, Rupert Wyatt and Joe Cornish have been mentioned as possibilities to succeed Orci, a fan campaign has launched via Twitter urging Paramount to #BringInRiker and hire Jonathan Frakes to direct the threequel.
As well as portraying Captain Picard’s Number One William T. Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the subsequent movie spin-offs, Frakes directed numerous episodes of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, along with the feature films Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection.
If you’d like to see Frakes in the director’s chair for Star Trek 3, you can show your support on Twitter with the hashtag #BringInRiker.
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Originally published December 7, 2014. Updated April 15, 2018.
