With J.J. Abrams heading to a galaxy far, far way, the directors chair for Star Trek 3 has been left empty. But Paramount might be close to filling it, with reports that the studio want attack The Block director Joe Cornish for the job. While a small English movie about a group of youths battling aliens in a council estate (which admittedly was a fine debut on a low budget of $8 million) might not scream Star Trek, Cornish is no stranger to high profile, big budget projects having worked as co-script writer on The Adventures of Tin Tin and Edgar Wright's upcoming Ant-Man. He is already working with Paramount to helm an adaption of cyber punk novel Snow Crash, and if he is chosen for the Star Trek job, it will definitely put his career on the fast track.
via Deadline
