Yesterday, Deadline
broke the news that
Jessica Jones director S.J. Clarkson would be directing the debut episode of a still-untitled
Game of Thrones spin-off, a project she could undertake because a schedule had opened up in her schedule due to a prior directing commitment being shelved. That prior directing commitment? The next installment of the Star Trek film series. Clarkson
had been set last Spring to make her feature film directorial debut by helming a sequel to 2016's
Star Trek Beyond, but the project ran into a roadblock last August when
pay disputes between Paramount Pictures and stars Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth led to the two actors walking away from the project, putting its very existence in jeopardy.
