After serving his tenure in X Men In the franchise, James McAvoy had his eye on another iconic character originated by Patrick Stewart.
The Golden Globe nominee recently revealed that he pitched a star trek The series about “young Picard” was titled Rebellion on the StargazerGiven that he almost “made” the limited series.
“It was a perfect idea that I thought of and I implemented it star trek People too, and we almost did it,” McEvoy said happy sad confused podcast. “I have a whole story about early Picard. I really want to play the younger version of Patrick in my career.” [Stewart]”
This interview comes after McAvoy took over the role of Professor Charles Xavier from Stewart X Men prequel movies first class (2011), days of Future Past (2014), apocalypse (2016) and dark Phoenix (2019). Stewart begins live-action role X Men (2000), the sequel X2 (2003),
McAvoy continued, “I have this whole story of a young Picard that I love. I pitched it, it was like a one-off standalone season… when he took over as captain of the Stargazer and what really happened, and the secret he’s kept his entire career. I just told them it, talked to them and they were on board, but we had some logistical issues that meant we couldn’t do that. But I love that story that I Just went to bed and thought about it at night.”
Stewart starred in the series, which ran for seven seasons in syndication from 1987 to 1994. Star Trek: The Next Generation Captain Jean-Luc Picard as Commanding Officer of the USS Enterprise-D. He reprized the role in Star Trek: Picard, which ran for three seasons from 2020 to ’23.
Picard’s First Order was explored in author Michael Jan Friedman’s six-part Star Trek: Stargazer Book series, which was published between 2002 and 2004.