No link, story was all over yesterday so not hard to find: Fuller stepped down as show runner, citing his schedule (he's also running American Gods on starz, which honestly I'm more interested in seeing anyway).

He is a busy guy, but this just looks like a disaster. First the delays, now this. It smells like CBS suits screwing with production. They're supposed to start shooting in a few weeks, still zero cast announcements and now Fuller is taking on a much-reduced role. How can this be good in any way?

Well this sucks......Fuller was my main reason for watching this....

I think it's more like 85/15 at this point.

Word is that the suits at CBS were stepping on Fuller's toes and he just walked away. As I've said all along, this is a very bad idea in terms of launching on CBS All Access only in the US. They'd have been much smarter to partner up with Amazon or Netflix (their X-US distributor) to create a show that fans would love to see.

Instead, they've boxed themselves into an incredibly difficult situation and the talent has begun to walk away, long before the show has even been cast.

Viacom/CBS/Paramount are an epic disaster.

I think you are being very generous with your 15% chance at it not being a disaster. What a bunch of idiots.

Maybe so. :shrug:

I heard this morning that they've basically given full control over to Alex Kurtzman, who produced, along with Abrams, the latest batch of movies. While I liked the initial reboot film, I disliked the second film so much that I haven't even bothered with the third.

The other rumor is that Kurtzman is bringing in Akiva Goldsman, whom he worked with on Fringe. While I really enjoyed several seasons of Fringe and the original concept, it went way off the tracks in the final two season (and the first season was up and down, as if they couldn't figure out if they wanted to be an original show or a clone of the X-Files).

The bottom line is that to me, there's way too much chaos happening around a program that's supposed to begin airing in May 2017. I think they need to step back, reassess and shoot for a January 2018 debut at the earliest.

Knowing Paramount though, they'll make the wrong decision and muck it up.

Oh yeah, the other bit of info, which I found rather surprising, is that they're planning to spend $6-7 million per episode, which puts a 13 episode season at somewhere between $78 and $91 million per. That's up there with HBO's budget, so their deal with Netflix must provide the bulk of that money, as they'd need a minimum of 13 million paid subscriptions to CBS All Access in order to break even.

I think to date, it's about 100k.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/23/...michelle-yeoh/

'Star Trek: Discovery' casts Michelle Yeoh

It's not known what character Yeoh will play, but it's likely she's going to be the star.

Nicholas Meyer has let it slip that Michelle Yeoh has joined the cast of the upcoming CBS show Star Trek: Discovery. The show's consulting producer dropped the bombshell while talking to ComingSoon about the Blu-ray of his classic movie, Time After Time. While Meyer wouldn't confirm what role Yeoh had taken, it's entirely plausible that she's going to be the shows star, the as-yet unnamed "Number One."

Well before Bryan Fuller announced that he was stepping back from his duties on the show, he outlined his vision for Discovery. He explained that his vision for the show would center upon a Lt. Commander of a starship rather than the captain, and that he wanted the character to be a woman. Speculation immediately pointed towards Angela Basset and Rosario Dawson, both of whom Fuller had previously praised.

It's possible that with Dawson and Bassett both tied in to shooting Marvel-based adventures in the near future, neither had space in their schedule. Then again, there are six more characters that need to be cast, so it's just as likely that Bassett and Dawson may find the time to head out to the 2250s.

I have nothing against Michelle Yeoh but question how much she'll appeal to Star Trek fans

Only ever saw her in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I assume she's a great actor.

She was also in a Pierce Brosnan Bond movie in 1997, Tomorrow Never Dies.

Outside of that, very few roles known to Americans, most all of which cast her as mainly Chinese.

She's also 54 years old, which would make her the oldest central cast member of a Trek show.

This casting leads me to believe that this is going to be an action based series instead of the deeper, more introspective, series that people believe can only be done on TV.

That makes me sad.

I have absolutely nothing against Michelle Yeoh and think she's been amazing in everything I've seen but I agree, this just seems out of place for a Trek series.

Hopefully, I'm wrong.

My initial thought is that they're aiming at Chinese and Asian audiences. Would that fall under the Netflix umbrella? All Access is North America only as I recall, and the US and Canada are literally the only places that won't be able to watch on netflix.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon‘s Michelle Yeoh is heading into the final frontier with Star Trek: Discovery. Sources confirm to Deadline that the upcoming CBS All Access iteration of the fabled franchise will see Yeoh playing a Starfleet Captain.

However, before you start mapping out the deck of the Discovery, sources close to the production tell us exclusively that Yeoh will actually be the leader of another ship. We hear that Yeoh has been cast as Han Bo and her ship is the Shenzhou. The Yeoh-run spacecraft is set to play a big role in Discovery‘s first season.

Asked for comment, Star Trek: Discovery producer CBS TV Studios declined to confirm Yeoh’s casting,

Yeoh is the first revealed cast member on the series, which marks the return of Star Trek to scripted television for the first time since Star Trek Enterprise ended its run in 2005.

Casting Yeoh, one of Asia’s biggest stars of the past three decades, underscores the global appeal the producers of Star Trek: Discovery are going for with the new series, which is being distributed in 188 countries outside of the US and Canada by Netflix.

Major plot and character details about Star Trek Discovery have not been revealed. It is known however that it will take place approximately 10 years before the events of the original series, and that the lead character will be a young woman, likely non-white, serving as a lieutenant commander aboard the Federation starship Discovery, known to her crewmates as “Number One.” This raises the possibility that the character is second in command on the ship, as “number one” is the designation given to two previous Trek first officers: Majel Barrett’s character on the original Star Trek pilot “The Cage”, and William Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

This will be the first Star Trek series where the main character is not the commanding officer, though not all main characters have been full captains, as the Avery Brooks-portrayed Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine started with the rank of commander before being promoted to Captain in season 3. Series co-creator and producer Bryan Fuller has frequently emphasized the show’s commitment to diversity, confirming at TCA last summer that there will be at least one gay character, and has also said there will be both familiar and new alien races.

Fuller co-created Star Trek: Discovery with Alex Kurtzman and served as showrunner until last month when he stepped down from the role, handing the Captain’s chair to his numbers twos, Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts. Earlier this fall, Star Trek: Discovery‘s launch had been pushed from January to May 2017.

News that Michelle Yeoh had come aboard Star Trek: Discovery was first revealed in an interview with consulting producer Nicholas Meyer, published by Coming Soon, which provided no information about her character.

CBS has now officially announced the first three cast members of its “Star Trek: Discovery” TV series. Michelle Yeoh, who was linked last week, is now officially set and will be joined by Doug Jones (“Hellboy”) and Anthony Rapp (“Rent”).

Yeoh will play Captain Georgiou of the Federation starship Shenzou. Rapp will play Lieutenant Stamets, a science officer on the U.S.S. Discovery who specializes in an astromycology (space fungus). Jones will play Lieutenant Saru, a Starfleet science officer and a member of an alien species new to the franchise. His character isn’t attached to a particular starship. No other details about the roles were revealed.

Further casting for the series is expected in coming days. “Star Trek: Discovery” is currently set to premiere in May.

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Anthony Rapp's character is gay