Last week it was reported that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Michelle Yeoh had been cast as a captain in the new Star Trek TV series Star Trek: Discovery. This casting has now been confirmed by CBS, but the character is slightly different than initially reported. Yeoh will be playing the Starfleet captain of the starship Shenzhou, as previously stated. However, her character will be named Captain Georgiou and not Han Bo.

Also announced is that Doug Jones and Anthony Rapp have joined Yeoh on the cast. Jones will be playing a Starfleet science officer named Lt. Saru, who’s also part of an alien species new to the Trek universe. Rapp also plays a science officer, named Lt. Stamets, who’s an astromycologist and fungus expert.

Happy Thanksgiving geeks! If you’re getting in a little internet time before the feasting and football begins, we have a few little treats for you to enjoy.

First up is the first casting for the upcoming new Star Trek TV series, titled Star Trek: Discovery. It’s being reported that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Michelle Yeoh has been cast as a captain on the show. She won’t, however, be playing the main captain running the Discovery.

An official trailer for the upcoming science fiction thriller Morgan has been released by 20th Century Fox. We saw a teaser trailer for the movie just last month.

The movie comes from first time feature director Luke Scott, the son of Ridley Scott (who is a producer on the project). It stars Kate Mara (The Martian, House of Cards), Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch, Atlantis), Toby Jones (Captain America, The Hunger Games), Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey), Boyd Holbrook (Narcos, Jane Got a Gun), Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sunshine), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight, Fast Times at Ridgemont High), and Paul Giamatti (Sideways, Cinderella Man).

20th Century Fox has released a teaser trailer for a new sci-fi thriller titled Morgan.

The movie is the feature directorial debut of Luke Scott, who is the son of Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott. Ridley is also involved in the project as a producer.

You can read a brief description of Morgan and see the teaser trailer and a poster for the movie below.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee‘s Oscar-winning mystical martial arts romantic adventure with touching performances and astounding fight scenes choreographed by the great Yuen Wo Ping, was an international smash success when it was released in the final months of 2000. More than half of its $213.5 million worldwide box office take was made in the U.S. and later was honored with ten Academy Award nominations, four of which the film won including Best Foreign Film. Not since the release Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon nearly three decades before had a martial arts epic had such a widespread cultural impact. Many films attempted to emulate Crouching Tiger‘s style and global success, including Curse of the Golden Flower and House of Flying Daggers, with little or no luck.

Crouching Tiger had been based on the fourth novel in the Crane Iron Pentalogy by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu, leaving open the possibility of sequels. The family of Dulu, who died in 1977, saw very little money from the box office take of the movie, so they were reluctant to make a deal for the rights to the other novels in the Crane Iron series with Sony, the distributor of Crouching Tiger. After a drawn-out battle the Weinstein Company emerged triumphant with the rights and now plans to begin production on an untitled sequel this May. The movie will be based on Silver Vase, Iron Knight, the fifth novel in the Pentalogy, and John Fusco, the screenwriter of Young Guns and Hidalgo among others, has been retained for scripting duties.