Star Trek 4 Has One Big Hurdle To Getting Made, Explains Simon Pegg

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Simon Pegg recently explained that Star Trek 4 has one big obstacle to overcome in order for it to be made. With no new Star Trek media for four years, J.J. Abrams brought the iconic crew of Star Trek: The Original Series back to the big screen with J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek. The reboot film reintroduced Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoe Saldaña), Sulu (John Cho), Chekov (Anton Yelchin), and Scotty (Pegg) to a new audience. However, to preserve the original Prime timeline of the Star Trek universe, Abrams created an alternate timeline — dubbed the Kelvin Timeline — which freed the team up to create new stories while revisiting familiar characters.

The 2009Star Trek proved popular with audiences and spawned two sequels, Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond. However, production on Star Trek 4 has been delayed frequently over the years following the initial Kelvin films' poor reception. Initially, the sequel was planned to start production shortly after Beyond. A year later, Quentin Tarantino put his hat into the ring with a potential Star Trek script, but plans for that project also stalled. Finally, July 2021 saw Paramount announce Matt Shakman as the Star Trek 4 director, with a planned release date in June 2023. In February 2022, it was reported that Pine and the original cast were in talks to return, but none of their involvement has been confirmed.

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While speaking at FedCon (via Trek Movie), Pegg explained that Star Trek 4 has one big hurdle to overcome before it can finally be made. The star prefaced his comments by saying that he doesn't know the when or if the sequel will go into