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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And he has Directed Castle.
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sniperboy says
The only thing that came to mind for me was when he directed Star Trek: Insurrection but actually he has done a lot of directing since them. I was surprised at how many current shows he has directed. Maybe he would be a good choice.
Defiancy says
He directed First Contact also, which was easily the best TNG movie.
NumnerOneFan says
And Leverage
Steven Paul says
THOSE FILMS HE DIRECTED SUCKED TOO!
Bunny says
You’re stupid. Frakes is awesome in everything he does.
Steven Paul says
You’re a fuck head too!
Steven Paul says
You are a moron!
sniperboy says
Look on his wiki page. He has done a lot of shows since those films, a lot of current stuff. I think he has come a long way from when he directed those movies.
Steven Paul says
He was good as Riker, he is not a director!
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Steve Nichols says
Insurrection? Meh. Not when we could bring back Nicholas Meyer instead. He’s still working, you know.
Brian Fleury says
Considering he made the best start trek movie ever made(in my opinion) Star trek: first contact I’d say definitely yes
B CH says
Nah.
wagonball says
Yeah with today’s tech, no offense to Johnathan franks, but Nicholas would really blow our minds away with new startrek3.
mrmikl99 says
He would be great. He has a variety of experience under his belt and knows star trek better than any director. And Paramount gave the reboot to JJ, after which he immeadiately said, “I hate Star Trek”, and he put the first POS up on the screen to prove it.
drerasmusdoorjammer says
another 400lb fanboy that lives in mommies basement ..you weren’t alive when Trek first aired so shut the eff up..only real trek fans have a say not your ilk
HolyFranchiseBatman! says
So to be a real Trek fan you have to be born before 1966?
mrmikl99 says
Laughs, you can not be soo wrong. I own my own house, car and in college for my fourth degree. I was born in 57, You know NOTHING about me. I watched when TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager all were previewed! In fact, at one time, the last three were on the air at the same time for a year or two. I wonder about your state of mind, drerasmusdoorjammer. Look at the remarks JJ made. He stated it in the press when he got the job, he hated ST and he did gut the reboot to a slobbering mess it is. Nero had gone back 100 years to get Spock. He could have EASLY left an encoded message to himself to tell him to get his family off of Romulous. But thats right, you dont think for a living.
Gus says
Frakes has my vote, but Hollywood will probably want someone with a proven big screen track record like Mayer.
drerasmusdoorjammer says
he does have two trek films under his belt
Shawn Clark says
Well they were going to have Bob Orci direct, and this would have been his directorial debut. Bring in Riker!
stackedaktor says
I stumbled on a movie based on a Harlan Ellison short story a few years ago- it was some kind of short film on ABC (I think). My friends and I liked it quite a bit , but no else did haha. Anyways, at the end during the credits it said: Directed by Jonathan Frakes
In retrospect, it was maybe the most intelligent program on a major network that I saw in the 2000’s.
Besides, He KNOWS Trek. He’s been there through every modern (good) incarnation.
I think it would be a great idea. The new Star Trek needs the philosophy and the big ideas as much as the adventure!
Deadtroll says
Hes been their through some modern bad incarnations too. I would not want him directing the movie on the basis of Inserection alone.
Banesheart says
Frakes has my vote!
Briar Jablonowski says
I think Joss Whedon would be a good Director, and Avengers Age of Ultron will be his last, so he should be freed up.
sidray says
Good Lord, Joss Whedon directing Star Trek? That would be a nerdgasmic moment.
sharky701 says
When are we gonna get some new show series? I’d like to see 2 new ones, done like DS9, Voyager, & Enterprise. One with Riker at the helm of his own ship, working with Sisko out of DS9 to explore the gamma quadrant, and the other could be a show featuring Red Squad, or Star Fleet’s covert/rogue divison I can’t remember the name of.
Bob says
It was Section 31.
sharky701 says
We are Borg……. resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.
Deadtroll says
First Contact was good. Inserction was possibly the worst Star Trek movie ever made. I think JJ Abrams did an excellent job. Maybe they should try to look to the future instead of the past on this one. I am not convinced that the franchise would be better off with Frakes.
GregR says
First Contact was good. Insurrection felt like a ho-hum episode of the TV show. If Frakes directs Star Trek3, at least, maybe it will have more of a Star Trek feel to it.
drerasmusdoorjammer says
plus they killed Data !!!!!!!!!!!!! How do you kill the most beloved character from TNG
GregR says
That was in Nemesis. But Data sort of lived. Seeing as how all his memories and experiences are in B4’s positronic brain.
Rob says
One name….Nicolas Meyer
Phil says
No, can’t say that I want to see him directing it.
Phil A. Buster says
Patrick Stewart should be considered for directing a Star Trek movie. If he declines, my next choice would be Jonathan Frakes.
Darrell Beam says
What? NO! We don’t need someone like him that was programmed by lazy storytelling that came out of the studio back then. That kind of Start Trek died with Enterprise, don’t need that back at all.
ExJax says
Did these people not see Star Trek Insurrection????!!!
el1jones says
I think a totally new director is needed. Frakes is good, but his Movies read like a long TV episode (still good, but need to be more grandiose.) J.J. Abrams has the Grandiose film, but the story line is, well, totally off. There are WAY too many plot holes, and it breaks from “Star Trek Science”, which is one of the consistent things that makes Star Trek believable.
starttreking says
Hi Guys, As a die hard Star Trek fan I find this campaign pretty short sited. You guys really need to get your Loyalty and business straight. I will always be a die hard supporter of Riker, but not Frakes the director. Same way I didn’t buy Shatner’s or Nimoy’s music albums. As a fan all I want is endless stream of Star Trek movies, for that to happen it has to translate into box office success for that you need vision and JJ abrams caliber. I don’t know if you guys remember the TNG movies they were pretty much a two hour episode, they were no Movies. People are used to the last 2 movies already they will expect more from upcoming movies. Even George Lucas realized he shouldn’t direct any Star Wars movies. Time to expect more from Star Trek.
J Robert Hanson says
“a fan campaign has launched via Twitter urging Paramount to #BringInRiker and hire Jonathan Frakes to direct the threequel.”
As much as I love Jonathan Frakes, I’m afraid he’d be a throwback to what Star Trek has already done. The franchise needs a director with similar vision to what JJ Abrams has put in motion.
Villordsutch says
I’ll vote for Nicholas Meyer and nobody else.