Andy Weir has fallen on his sword over remarks he made about Star Trek.
Weir, the writer of Project Hail Mary, instructed Star Trek EP Alex Kurtzman in a just-posted open letter: “I was trying to be funny, but in retrospect it comes off as disrespectful and mean.”
He stated his quotes made on the Critical Drinker pod had been “taken out of context as salacioius sound bytes” and he “was trying to be self-deprecating.”
Weir on the pod made a sequence of statements about Paramount‘s dealing with of the Star Trek universe and claimed he had a pitch turned down by Trek EP Kurtzman.
“And here’s another thing: I pitched a Star Trek show to Paramount and I was on Zoom with the showrunners with all the shows and spent a lot of time talking to [Kurtzman],” Weir stated on the pod. “He, as a person, is a really nice guy. But at the same time, those shows are s*it. He is a nice guy, but they didn’t accept my pitch so, you know, f*ck ’em.”
His apology simply posted on Facebook stated he additionally pressured “how much I like you as a person and what a nice guy you are” to Kurtzman. “Anyway, if you want to talk about it in real time – even if it’s just to rip me a new one – I’m happy to hop on the phone or zoom,” he added.
Weir’s feedback had earlier drawn ire from scribes together with Don Winslow, the writer behind the supply materials for Crime 101.
Weir wrote the Project Hail Mary novel on which the Phil Lord and Christopher Miller field workplace hit was primarily based. The sci-fi pic, starring Ryan Gosling as a faculty trainer who wakes aboard a spacecraft with amnesia, has been a winner for Amazon MGM Studios, delivering a few of the finest numbers for a non-franchise film in a while.
