{"id":50265,"date":"2019-03-01T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T22:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=50265"},"modified":"2019-03-01T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T22:59:31","slug":"stewart-series-director-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2019\/03\/stewart-series-director-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Series Director Chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hanelle Culpepper<\/strong>, who directed <em>Discovery<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Vaulting Ambition<\/em> and will direct episode ten of the third season of the show, has been chosen to be the first female director to launch a brand-new <em>Star Trek<\/em> series with the announcement that she will direct on the new Picard series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hanelle is a gifted and dynamic filmmaker whose directorial choices are always deeply rooted in character,&#8221; said executive producer and franchise captain <em>Alex Kurtzman<\/em>. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of her work since she started with us on Discovery, and she&#8217;s the perfect person to reintroduce the beloved character of Picard to longtime fans and new viewers alike. We&#8217;re thrilled she&#8217;s joining our Trek family on this next adventure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other shows directed by Culpepper include <em>Castle, Criminal Minds, Gotham, How to Get Away With Murder, AMC<\/em>&#8216;s forthcoming<em> NOS4A2<\/em>, <em>USA<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Shooter, The Flash<\/em>, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Culpepper is the second director tapped for the series. <strong>Jonathan Frakes<\/strong> will also direct an episode on the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanelle Culpepper, who directed Discovery&#8216;s Vaulting Ambition and will direct episode ten of the third&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,9651],"tags":[9774,6221],"class_list":["post-50265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-picard-trek-series","tag-culpepper","tag-director"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CulpepperStewartShowCBSAllAccess030119.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CulpepperStewartShowCBSAllAccess030119-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CulpepperStewartShowCBSAllAccess030119.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CulpepperStewartShowCBSAllAccess030119.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CulpepperStewartShowCBSAllAccess030119.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CulpepperStewartShowCBSAllAccess030119.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CulpepperStewartShowCBSAllAccess030119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CulpepperStewartShowCBSAllAccess030119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CulpepperStewartShowCBSAllAccess030119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CulpepperStewartShowCBSAllAccess030119.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/picard-trek-series\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Picard<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Picard","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50269,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50265\/revisions\/50269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}