Simon Pegg can be “so blissful” if a fourth Star Trek film received made.
The 55-year-old actor has starred in director J.J. Abrams’ sci-fi franchise as Scotty from 2009’s Star Trek to 2016’s Star Trek Past, and Pegg has mentioned he would like to make one other movie so he can see his co-stars once more.
Talking on a panel at STLV: Trek to Vegas 2025, he instructed followers: “J.J. has at all times mentioned that there are scripts being developed and this and that. I believe it is about time. It will be nice to see us 10 years after the five-year mission, the place we’re.
“If we make one other Star Trek, I will be so blissful as a result of I simply wish to see my pals once more. I see them often.
“All of them dwell in Los Angeles. I noticed Zoe [Saldaña] this yr, which was beautiful. I noticed Karl [Urban] a few occasions once I was engaged on The Boys. However I miss Chris [Pine] and I miss John [Cho]. We have been by way of quite a bit collectively.
“We have been by way of good occasions, unhealthy occasions. And I’d love to have the ability to hang around with these guys once more.”
A fourth Star Trek film has been within the works at Paramount Footage – with The Unbelievable 4: First Steps director Matt Shakman beforehand being hooked up earlier than he exited the movie in 2022 – although the challenge has confronted improvement points.
Pegg hopes the wheels on a fourth Star Trek film will start to show now that Skydance Media has taken over Paramount, with its CEO David Ellison being a giant fan of the franchise.
The Mission: Unimaginable – The Last Reckoning actor mentioned: “Nicely, I do know David Ellison is a giant Star Trek fan. I do know he cares in regards to the sequence. So I’d find it irresistible.
“I’d be delighted if we may make one other movie. I really like these guys.”
The Shaun of the Lifeless star mentioned that although the group has confronted “tragedy” since Anton Yelchin – who performed Pavel Chekov within the Star Trek trilogy – died aged 27 in June 2016 following a automobile accident, it could be “great” to make a fourth movie.
He mentioned: “And regardless of how we had a tragedy in our group, which was extraordinarily painful. It will be great to come back collectively once more.”
Pegg had beforehand mentioned he would wish to make a fourth Star Trek film, although admitted the challenge can be “endlessly tainted” following Yelchin’s passing.
Showing on Katee Sackhoff’s podcast The Sackhoff Present, the Scorching Fuzz actor instructed the host: “I’d like to do extra. Clearly it’s been endlessly tainted as a result of we misplaced Anton, and that was a very onerous factor for everybody concerned, and for the actual world, not to mention anything.
“If we do come again, if there’s one other alternative to come back again, then I’d like to. As a result of as we had been saying earlier on, it’s a bunch of men that I dearly, dearly love and don’t get to see fairly often. It will be good to get again along with them.”
