Regardless that Golden Globe nominee Michelle Yeoh appears to be doing all the things, all over the place, , there stays hope that she nonetheless has interstellar espionage in her future.
Coming off of Yeoh’s Season 1 run in Star Trek: Discovery, there have been stories that she would headline a derivative centered on Starfleet’s Part 31, a top-secret division first launched within the Deep Area 9 TV sequence. (Yeoh’s “mirror” Philippa Georgiou was first recruited to affix the division in a deleted scene from Discovery‘s Season 1 finale.) In reality, it was 4 years in the past this week that the possible offshoot was formally put into growth at Paramount+ fka CBS All Entry.
However within the years since, Yeoh has gone on to guide/movie roles in Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the Golden Globe-nominated movie Every thing All over the place All at As soon as, Netflix’s The College for Good and Evil, Disney+’s upcoming American Born Chinese language and Netflix’s not too long ago launched The Witcher: Blood Origin.
But regardless of Yeoh’s standing as a sizzling commodity, Tanya Giles, chief programming officer of Paramount Streaming, advised TVLine at a Tv Critics Affiliation press tour occasion that there have been “conversations” concerning the Part 31 sequence, affirming, “It’s nonetheless in growth.”
Alex Kurtzman, the architect of Paramount+’s Star Trek slate, stated in a Could 2022 interview that Yeoh’s Part 31 sequence was considered one of two new sequence “we’re specializing in proper now” (the opposite being about cadets at Starfleet Academy). Yeoh herself advised EW final February that she nonetheless hoped to do the sequence, describing it because the Discovery universe “however totally different. It’s wilder. It’s Mission: Not possible meets Guardians of the Galaxy in house.”
Yeoh performed the USS Discovery‘s captain Philippa Georgiou in Season 1 of Paramount+’s first Star Trek sequence, however was killed off early on. She returned later that season because the ruthless mirror-universe counterpart, Emperor Georgiou, who wound up concerned in Starfleet’s Part 31 — a covert ingredient that performed a task all through Season 2.
If a Part 31 sequence finally ends up truly taking place, it could be part of Paramount+’s ever-robust slate of Star Trek fare, together with Discovery (Season 5 is due this 12 months), Star Trek: Picard (Season 3 premieres Feb. 16), Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds and the animated Star Trek: Decrease Decks.
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