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Star Trek 3 fan campaign for Paramount to #BringInRiker and have Jonathan Frakes direct

December 7, 2014 by Gary Collinson

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZ2TF1kEjE&feature=player_embedded&list=PL18yMRIfoszH_jfuJoo8HCG1-lGjvfH2F

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Jonathan Frakes, Star Trek, Star Trek 3

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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