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The long-gestating new “Star Trek” film might feature a new cast.
When “Lucy in the Sky” and “Fargo” helmer Noah Fawley was tapped to direct the new film -the first since 2016’s “Star Trek : Beyond” – it was assumed it would be with Chris Pine’s Captain James T.Kirk and the other faces from the three J.J Abrams produced films.
A new suggests that the film might not be set in that film’s timeline though.
According to star Simon Pegg, Hawley’s vision may not involve his iteration of ‘Scotty’.
During an interview with Gold Derby, Pegg — who co-wrote the last sequel — said Hawley’s film may not include the original cast and do something new with the franchise:
“No, I don’t know anything about it. Noah Hawley’s been hired to write something for Star Trek, which is very exciting. He’s a brilliant writer and always creates interesting stuff. Whether or not we’re involved in that, I don’t know. I don’t think so. I don’t think that Noah’s thing is necessarily going to be Star Trek 4. I’m talking out of my ass, as usual. But we’ll see what happens with that.”
Quentin Tarantino was also set to make a new “Star Trek” film – which was described as ‘Pulp Fiction in Space’- but both the filmmaker and Pegg recently cast doubt on it coming to fruition. In this new interview, Pegg suggests that that movie could come to be … if Tarantino decided he wanted it to happen.
“As far as I know, Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek idea is still kind of in the mix. That’s down to [him] about what he wants to do next, you know. There’s been talk of various spinoffs possibly. We’ll see. I’m always happy to get back into that universe. I think it’ll be bittersweet for us now to do another one after losing Anton [Yelchin], just because we were very much a family. And we’ll miss him more than we normally do, because he will be conspicuous by his absence. But we’ll see what happens.”
