Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry Is Finally Getting the Biopic He Deserves

On August nineteenth, 2021, Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was born in El Paso, Texas. He grew as much as develop into a member of the Air Force throughout World War II, a member of the LAPD afterward, and a burgeoning TV screenwriter. And, oh yeah, he created one of the beloved and enduring science fiction franchises of all time. The man deserves his personal biopic, and now that’s precisely what he’s getting.

Announced earlier in the present day, on what would have been his a hundredth birthday, Roddenberry will probably be getting his personal biography film from—who else?—his son Rod Roddenberry and Roddenberry Entertainment. Star Trek: Discovery and Picard’s Trevor Roth will co-produce the film with the youthful Roddenberry, which Deadline studies may have a script from Adam Mazer, who additionally wrote You Don’t Know Jack, a 2010 biopic from HBO that examined the lifetime of Dr. Kevorkian as performed by Al Pacino. Obviously, the 2 topics have little or no in widespread, however Jack was critically acclaimed and equally beloved by audiences, based on Rotten Tomatoes, so there doesn’t appear to be something to fret about. Besides, I’m positive Rod will step in to do his dad proud if the necessity arises.

The query is: Who ought to play Gene Roddenberry? Who may do him justice? I’m developing with a whole clean, so I’d love to listen to your solutions within the feedback. While you’re doing that, you may properly make your dream solid for the actors enjoying the Star Trek: The Original Series solid, i.e. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForrest Kelly, and the remaining. There’s completely no method the Abrams, Kelvin-universe Trek actors will reprise the roles because the actors as an alternative of the characters (they’d be too previous, anyway). But Ethan Peck, who performed Spock on Star Trek: Discovery and can achieve this once more within the upcoming collection Strange New Worlds, most likely has an edge when it’s time to solid Nimoy.

However it shakes out, it is a hell of a birthday current for Gene, and a well-deserved one, too.

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