Bryan Fuller Drops All Commitments to 'Star Trek: Discovery'
In October, Bryan Fuller stepped down from his position as showrunner on Star Trek Discovery. And while fans were settled with the news that he'd remain involved as an executive producer, that's no longer the case.
“I’m not involved in production, or postproduction, so I can only give them the material I’ve given them and hope that it is helpful for them. I’m curious to see what they do with it,” he continued. “Ultimately, with my responsibilities [elsewhere], I could not do what CBS needed to have done in the time they needed it done for Star Trek. It felt like it was best for me to focus on landing the plane with American Gods and making sure that was delivered in as elegant and sophisticated a fashion as I could possibly do.”
“It is bittersweet, but it was just a situation that couldn’t be resolved otherwise… so I had to step away,” he said.
“Creating [Discovery] and getting to the heart of what the important themes were to me as a Star Trek fan—how do we get along with people who are different than ourselves?” he asked in the interview. “How do we find common ground? How do move into the future together? Those themes were implicit in the scripts that I wrote before I left, and the storylines [I plotted].”
He wouldn't rule out a return to the series at some point, but for now, Star Trek: Discovery moves forward without him.
Source: Comicbook
