Terry Matalas, the showrunner behind Star Trek Picard‘s epic Season 3, is developing a remake of the cult-classic sci-fi movie from the ’80s, Enemy Mine.
The details include that Matalas is writing an update of the 1985 movie Enemy Mine for Disney’s 20th Century Studios, with no director or producers attached as of yet.
Matalas confirmed the news on X.
Though the movie didn’t do all that well at the box office, probably thanks to viewings on HBO at the time (where I first watched it as a kid), the flick became a massive cult classic film.
The film stars Dennis Quaid as a human soldier, with Louis Gossett Jr. as a reptilian soldier, who are at war with one another. They crash land on an alien planet and are forced to work together to survive. The kicker is that the reptilian species reproduces through self-fertilization, and Louis Gossett Jr.’s character dies in child birth. Quaid’s character raises the child and promises to return the child to its home planet.
Following Star Trek: Picard Season 3, while it was hoped Terry Matalas would develop a new spinoff series (Paramount’s loss), that hasn’t happened. Marvel’s Kevin Feige has since tapped Matalas for the Disney+ Vision series. Matalas was also behind the 12 Monkeys, Nikita, and Terra Nova TV series.
As THR notes in their reporting, the head of 20th Century Studios, Steve Asbell, is a big Star Trek Fan.
Matalas, Feige and Asbell also appeared together on the Trek podcast, Inglorious Treksperts, earlier this year defending Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
