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Simon Pegg's been doing some interviews, and the subject of his writing of the next Trek movie has come up a few times.
Pegg: new script has no relation to Orci's
Pegg promises "Frontierism" and "Optimism" for the next Trek movie.
He's also being... diplomatic about Into Darkness.
Pegg: new script has no relation to Orci's
He's confirmed that the screenplay that he and Jung are working on bears no relation to the earlier draft by Roberto Orci. "It's completely new. I haven't read Bob's script and they didn't want us to. So we went back to the drawing board", he said.
"We had creative meetings with Justin [Lin, director] and there were things he wanted in there. I haven't written like this before. I've never been a custodian of something, it's usually mine when I'm writing. Whereas with this, you're given a bunch of stuff... so Doug and I go 'okay, right, let's try and get that into it'. So it's an interesting process".
Pegg promises "Frontierism" and "Optimism" for the next Trek movie.
I have to say, the knowledge that Orci and his script have been removed from the movie entirely makes me far more excited for the next movie than I otherwise would have been. Pegg's making all the noises I wanted to hear, too.What got you excited about the opportunity to write the next Star Trek movie, and can you talk about the sensibility you want to bring to it?
It just came out of conversations I was having with J.J. [Abrams] and Bryan Burk, and they decided to kind of like restart the process. Because Id been on the set with Burk-y on Mission: Impossible, he said, Maybe you should come on and write it with Doug and Justin and him and Lindsey Weber. And I was a bit, No. I dont want to its too much pressure!
But I think we just want to take it forward with the spirit of the TV show. And its a story about frontierism and adventure and optimism and fun, and thats where we want to take it, you know. Where no man has gone before where no one has gone before, sensibly corrected for a slighter more enlightened generation. But yeah, thats the mood at the moment.
He's also being... diplomatic about Into Darkness.
Specifically on Star Trek Into Darkness, Pegg did clarify that "I really, really am very proud of Into Darkness". But he did add that "I feel like the thing that for me was kind of jolting was that it kind of wanted to embrace itself a little too much, rather than take off and do what Star Trek did, which is to go off into the depths of the galaxy".
"It was about referencing not only a previous film but also kind of hanging onto the coast of Earth a little bit. So for me it's now about the spirit of adventure and exploration and also, in modern terms, just how would that be for people, to be away for that amount of time and that kind of stuff. We're trying to evolve the story at the same time as not letting it go".