Kalinda Vazquez has landed an out of this world opportunity…
The Latina television writer and producer has been set by Paramount Pictures to write a Star Trek film.
JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot is producing.
Vazquez has written on Star Trek: Discovery, and insiders say this is a blind deal for an original movie that she hatched, one that expands her role in the StarTrek Universe.
Vazquez was a co-executive producer on Fear the Walking Dead. She also got her name from the original Star Trek series, after a character from the second-season episode “By Any Other Name.” In the 1968 episode, the character’s name was Kelinda.
Vazquez just made a splash in teaming with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin on an HBO series adaptation of the Roger Zelazny sci-fi novel Roadmarks.
Vazquez’s television credits include Marvel’sRunaways, Once Upon a Time, Nikita, Human Target and Prison Break, and she recently adaptedBarrier, based on a Brian K. Vaughan graphic novel, for Legendary Television.
Life is but a stream for Kalinda Vazquez… Netflix signed a multi-year overall deal with the Latina creator, writer, and producer. Under the terms of the deal, Vazquez will create, write and produce new series and other projects at the streamer. Vazquez, known for her work on Star Trek: Discovery and Fear…
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