Lea Thompson has already had a busy profession. Not solely has she appeared as an attractive rock star turned superhero in the notorious Lucasfilm adaption of Howard the Duck, and as a mother turned crush within the Back to the Future trilogy, she’s proven off her dance coaching with an look on Dancing with the Stars. She’s additionally directed motion pictures and tv episodes alike. But now, the Trekkie is boldly directing the place she’s by no means directed earlier than: within the Star Trek universe!
In a tweet despatched on February third, Thompson introduced that she directed two of the upcoming episodes of the sophomore season of Star Trek: Picard: Episode 203 and Episode 204. See Thompson’s tweet under:
Thompson has loads of directorial expertise, each on the massive and small screens, having directed the 2017 movie The Year of Spectacular Men, in addition to episodes of tv reveals like The Goldbergs, Katy Keene, and Stargirl. According to the Tweet despatched by Thompson, as a lifelong Trekkie, directing Picard helps her obtain a childhood dream of turning into a part of the Trek household. She additionally thanked Picard showrunner Terry Matalas for making stated dream come to cross.
Previously, Thompson has Tweeted about one other long-standing directorial dream, a Howard the Duck film! The character is at the moment voiced by Seth Green within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and as seen within the climactic third act of 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, he was final noticed arriving in a world he by no means made: the Earth of the MCU! While an alternate-timeline model of Howard appeared in a number of episodes of the animated Disney+ anthology collection What If…?, it stays to be seen whether or not the live-action model of the character can be returning any time quickly (within the upcoming She-Hulk collection or elsewhere).
However, it’s laborious to think about there could be a extra certified candidate to direct a theoretical Howard the Duck film than Thompson. Not solely did she star as Beverly Switzler within the 1986 traditional Howard the Duck big-screen adaptation, however Thompson herself appeared as a personality within the (second) 2015 Marvel Comics run of Howard the Duck by Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones.
Lea Thompson is Directing Star Trek: Picard
Thompson’s directing two episodes of the second season of Picard solely provides her resume extra qualifying expertise for a potential Howard the Duck adaptation: in any case, it looks like the second season will see Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) “trapped in a world he never made,” the horrible, horrible twenty first Century! Let’s hope he could make it out of there earlier than the Bell Riots come to cross. Ben Sisko will not have been prepared for one more run-in Jean-Luc Picard.
Picard’s first season is at the moment accessible for streaming on Paramount+, and the primary episode of the second season can be launched on March 3, 2022. The second season of the collection will even characteristic the return of a number of of Star Trek: The Next Generations hottest recurring characters, Q (John De Lancie) and Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg). The two episodes of Picard that have been directed by Thompson are scheduled to be launched for streaming on Paramount+ March 17, 2022, and March 24, 2022.
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