I doubt he would be able to get around to directing a Star Trek movie until two or three years. saying “Quentin Tarantino came into the office with an idea, so we are putting it into a writers room.” I don’t think Quentin is going to direct it because he has got his movie to do and I think he is only going to do one more movie after that. We all got an email a couple of months ago from J.J. Pegg also noted that if the Tarantino pitch does become the next Trek movie, he doesn’t think Tarantino would actually helm it: Doesn’t expect Tarantino would direct Trek film Simon Pegg attends the UK Premiere of Paramount Pictures “Star Trek Beyond” at the Empire Leicester Square on Jin London, England. To add yet another wrinkle, when asked if he would be interested in returning to write another Star Trek movie, Pegg replied “Yeah, 100%.” That as far as I knew was the kind of Hemsworth thing. So, Payne and McKay, who wrote the abortive third script with the previous director, they are writing a fourth one. Doug and I are doing something together at Bad Robot, which I probably can’t talk about just yet. Abrams’ Bad Robot, it isn’t for Star Trek:ĭoug and I were never going to write the fourth.

The Wrap subsequently reported a source told them “three ‘Star Trek 4’ scripts are, indeed, in development.” However, if a third script is actually in development, it isn’t being written by Simon Pegg, who now tells Happy Sad Confused that while he and Jung are working on a project with J.J.

Then last week Zachary Quinto suggested there is a third script being written by the Star Trek Beyond writing team of Simon Pegg and Doug Jung. Payne and Patrick McKay, announced in July 2016, which would involve Chris Hemsworth reprising his 2009 Star Trek role as George Kirk. In addition, there is the one to be written by J.D. Smith, based on an idea pitched by Quentin Tarantino. Much of the focus of attention has been on the one being written by Mark L. In recent weeks, the big news about the next Star Trek movie has been around the idea that there are multiple scripts in consideration. Pegg knows about two scripts, neither of them his In an extended interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the subject of a possible Quentin Tarantino Trek film came up and Pegg opined on that and revealed that, contrary to what has recently been reported, he doesn’t have a competing script in the mix. Earlier today we reported some recent comments from Simon Pegg about Star Trek Beyond, but the actor and writer has some more to say about the next Trek film as well, including clarifying his potential role.

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