Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Santiago Cabrera and Michelle Hurd cast in upcoming new Star Trek Jean-Luc Picard series.


Santiago Cabrera and Michelle Hurd have been cast in the upcoming as-yet-untitled Star Trek Jean-Luc Picard series.

No specifics have been given about their characters and it's not yet known whether the series, like the existing Star Trek: Discovery will eventually be made available on Netflix worldwide and Netflix South Africa outside of the United States.

The new Star Trek series will be available exclusively on CBS All Access in the United States and will be distributed concurrently internationally by CBS Studios International.

The series is being produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.

Santiago Cabrera and Michelle Hurd were both cast as series regulars alongside Patrick Stewart in the series that will explore the next chapter of Jean-Luc Picard.

Santiago Cabrera recently appeared for 2 seasons in the suspense thriller Salvation and was in HBO's Big Little Lies opposite Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman seen on M-Net (DStv 101).

Michelle Hurd was the character of Shepherd in Blindspot on 1 Magic (DStv 103).

The new untitled Star Trek series features Patrick Stewart reprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for 7 seasons on Star Trek: Next Generation. The new series will follow this iconic character in the next chapter of his life.

Alex Kurtzman, James Duff, Akiva Goldsman, Patrick Stewart, Michael Chabon, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth are executive producers and Aaron Baiers from Secret Hideout will serve as co-executive producer.