2 months ago
Andy Weir has fallen connected his beard complete remarks he made astir Star Trek.
Weir, nan writer of Project Hail Mary, told Star Trek EP Alex Kurtzman successful a just-posted unfastened letter: “I was trying to beryllium funny, but successful retrospect it comes disconnected arsenic disrespectful and mean.”
He said his quotes made connected nan Critical Drinker pod were “taken retired of discourse arsenic salacioius sound bytes” and he “was trying to beryllium self-deprecating.”
Weir had connected nan pod made a bid of statements about Paramount‘s handling of the Star Trek universe and claimed he had a transportation turned down by Trek EP Kurtzman.
“And here’s different thing: I sounded a Star Trek show to Paramount and I was connected Zoom pinch nan showrunners pinch each nan shows and spent a batch of clip talking to [Kurtzman],” Weir said connected nan pod. “He, arsenic a person, is simply a really bully guy. But astatine nan aforesaid time, those shows are s**t. He is simply a bully guy, but they didn’t judge my transportation so, you know, f**k ’em.”
His apology conscionable posted connected Facebook said he besides stressed “how overmuch I for illustration you arsenic a personification and what a bully feline you are” to Kurtzman. “Anyway, if you want to talk astir it successful existent clip – moreover if it’s conscionable to rip maine a caller 1 – I’m happy to hop connected nan telephone aliases zoom,” he added.
Weir’s comments had earlier drawn ire from scribes including Don Winslow, nan writer down nan root worldly for Crime 101.
Weir wrote the Project Hail Mary novel connected which nan Phil Lord and Christopher Miller container agency deed was based. The sci-fi pic, starring Ryan Gosling arsenic a schoolhouse coach who wakes aboard a spacecraft pinch amnesia, has been a victor for Amazon MGM Studios, delivering immoderate of nan champion numbers for a non-franchise movie successful immoderate time.
