Here’s some news that’s fitting for a day that would be
Star Trek creator
Gene Roddenberry’s 100th birthday.
Roddenberry Entertainment has been working quietly on a feature biopic of the sci-fi TV icon, and there is a script by
Adam Mazer, whose credits include the Emmy-winning script for the 2010 HBO movie
You Don’t Know Jack which starred Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
Producers include Star Trek caretakers Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth, who executive produce all current franchise series including
Star Trek: Discovery and
Star Trek: Picard. Next up the development will be finding a director and actors.
There’s no shortage of subject matter surrounding Roddenberry, the fighter pilot-turned-LAPD cop-turned-TV writer who survived two plane crashes and the rough waters of Hollywood to create
Star Trek, one of the world’s most enduring sci-fi franchises...