Noah Hawley

Look what this guy's making for us.

We're making Alien Earth and you feel like you're watching an alien movie for four minutes or whatever it is.

Yeah, it's cool.

I did.

I signed on.

You know, after Lucy in the Sky, I thought, oh, I like this movie thing.

I'd like to do another one, but I think maybe I'd like to try something a little bigger.

And, you know, it's all franchises.

And I thought, yeah, but everything's war, right?

Star Wars is war and Marvel is war.

But Star Trek isn't war.

Star Trek is exploration, right?

It's people solving problems by being smarter than the other guy.

The best moment from Star Trek is in Wrath of Khan where Shatner puts on his reading glasses and lowers the shields on the other ship.

It costs like 45 cents, right?

right but it's like you see oh he's smarter than khan he's you know and and so i went in i talked to paramount i sold them this original idea it wasn't chris pine it wasn't anything i wrote it they said we love it let's prep it we were you know we were i was going to move to australia we were booking stages whatever and and then you know as happens in hollywood uh

Jim Giannopoulos, who was running the studio at the time, he's like, I'm going to bring in somebody else under me and they're going to take over the film studio.

And the first thing they did was kill the original Star Trek movie because they said, well,

How do we know people are going to like it?

Like, you know, shouldn't we do a transition movie from Chris Pine, play it safe, you know, whatever?