Patrick Stewart wants a Picard movie
polygon.comThe Picard show may have wrapped its third and final season in April, but Sir Patrick Stewart isn’t done with Jean-Luc or his story just yet.
In an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Making It So, published on Time, Stewart shared his hopes for his future in the world of Star Trek.
“I am gently pushing Paramount to let us do one single Picard movie,” Stewart writes. “Not a Next Generation movie, as we have already done four of those. This would be an expansion and deepening of the universe as we’ve seen it in Star Trek: Picard. I’ve discussed this with Jonathan [Frakes], Brent [Spiner], and LeVar [Burton], and they are all game. Jonathan is my first choice to direct it.”
In the excerpt, Stewart also talks about how much convincing he needed from show creators Alex Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman before originally signing onto the show.
“I was done with him,” Stewart writes. “I had said everything I wanted to say about him. His journey, as far as I was concerned, was complete, and for the remainder of my life, I was eager to find work as far away from Star Trek as possible, to keep moving forward as an actor.”
Kurtzman and Goldsman were able to bring him on board with a series of questions about Picard’s professional and emotional state following the conclusion of 2002’s Star Trek Nemesis, the last time audiences saw the character. Between that and the presence of Picard season one showrunner Michael Chabon, who wrote The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, one of Stewart’s favorite books, Stewart was in.
But how did we go from not wanting to do the show to wanting to do a movie after the show? Well, Picard didn’t end how Stewart wanted it to, and it seems to be bothering him.
Season 3 of Picard ends with the old crew
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