Noah Hawley's Canceled Star Trek Movie Would've Starred Cate Blanchett

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Noah Hawley reveals to a SXSW attendee that his cancelled Star Trek movie would've starred Cate Blanchett if it had moved forward. Hawley first rose to popularity in the world of television as the creator, executive producer and primary writer of FX's Fargo adaptation, which won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries in its debut season and has since garnered 113 award nominations and 32 wins across its four seasons. He went on to sign an exclusive production deal with the cable network, which extended to the acclaimed three-season Marvel series Legion and the upcoming Alien series.

Hawley has made multiple attempts to break into filmmaking over the years, beginning with penning the script for The Alibi and being tapped to pen the script for an unknown installment in Universal's scrapped Dark Universe and writing and directing the scrapped Doctor Doom movie at 20th Century Fox following Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox. Following the release of his critical and commercial bomb directorial debut, Lucy in the Sky, Hawley was brought on by Paramount to write and direct a fourth Star Trek movie set in J.J. Abram's Kelvin timeline, though would be centered on a new crew. This project would ultimately be canceled by the studio in late 2020 and now the Emmy winner is sharing new details of what could've been for the film.

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While attending the filmmaker's panel at the South by Southwest Film Festival, Fangoria contributor Brandon Wainerdi shared new details regarding Noah Hawley's cancelled Star Trek movie. Wainerdi revealed he asked the Fargo creator about what could've been in the film, with Hawley revealing that his project