Noah Hawley Casts Cate Blanchett and Rami Malek in His Rejected STAR TREK Movie

Years ago Fargo AND Legion Creator Noah Hawley was developing a Star Trek film for Paramount Pictures, but was ultimately scrapped.

Hawley, who is currently working on his Alien: Earth series, he’s a great storyteller and I was excited to see what he would bring to the Star Trek universe.

Well, it turns out he has two big stars lined up for the film! While a guest on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, Hawley revealed:

“Yeah, I mean, I would have made a Star Trek movie Cate Blanchett AND Rami Malek. You could have had it, America.”

Hawley didn’t give any details about the characters they would be playing, but it would have been cool to see them! He previously mentioned Blanchette, but Malek is new information.

It was previously explained that his film’s story would focus on “a virus that wipes out vast parts of the known universe.”

Hawley previously spoke about the project and shared some details about his vision Star Trek was, and how he was trying to bring back the smart aspect of the franchise. He explains that his story was less about action and more about exploration and creative problem solving.

“What I love about Star Trek is that it’s not a war story. It’s not a might-makes-good story. It’s a story about exploration. It’s a story about creative problem solving.

“My favorite moment in all of Star Trek is in The Wrath of Khan, when Kirk puts on his reading glasses to lower Khan’s shields. It’s such a hilarious little moment because he uses the best tool he has, which is his mind.

“As much as I like Chris Pine’s movies, they were mostly about running from one end of the ship to the other to put out a fire, to stop something, and then before he could catch his breath he had to do something else.

“They are more action films and what I wanted to return to was the idea of ​​humanity justifying its existence in the universe by showing its best qualities.”

Hawley also said that the film would tie into the history of the franchise, drawing comparisons to his own Fargo the series is linked to the 1996 film.

“We’re not doing Kirk and we’re not doing Picard. It’s a clean start that then allows us to do what we did with Fargo, where for the first three hours you say, “Oh, this has nothing to do with the movie at all,” and then you find the money. So you reward the audience with something they love.

Speaking about how the film project fell apart, Hawley said: “What I found with Star Trek was that I got on the runway and then there was a management change.

“In retrospect, it’s not like they killed the movie. It’s that I got all the way with a completely original idea, until someone said, “Well, wait a minute, what are we doing with this precious IP?” Give it to him just to make up a story? That’s not how corporate cinema works.’

“So if the call came to make a big franchise movie again, it would have to come with a sense of, ‘We want you to make your version of this.’”

It’s a shame that this Star Trek project fell apart. It could have been a good movie.