With everyone waiting for Star Trek 3 – we are waiting for this, right? I mean, it’s not just us, is it? – it’s always one of the big announcements when we get close to a villain.
A villain, afterall, can make a piece brilliant or dire… and we certainly know that Idris Elba, who is apparently in talks for the role, has the acting chops and the menace to make make a superb foil for the crew of the USS Enterprise.
The rumour is that he would be a Klingon, leading on from the plot threads laid down in Star Trek: Into Darkness.
In other Trek 3 news, Simon Pegg has been chatting about his writing duties on the movie along with Doug Jung and how hard it is making the June deadline: “The timeframe we’re working in is extremely tight. It means we’re having to come up with the goods. We can’t be lazy about it,” he says.
“The production is hammering on the door asking ‘when can we build this? What are we gonna build? Who’s in it? It’s an interesting process.
“”I have to abide by certain rules and do right by the original series, and not be too post-modern with it and not be too aware of itself. I have to try to take on the spirit of the show, rather than fill it with stuff that people will just go ‘oh, yeah, that’s from episode something or other’. It’s more than that”.
He also said – and this should please some of the fans not happy with the last two movies somewhat – that they were asked to “go back to the drawing board , a little bit, with the screenplay” by producer Bryan Burk.
While many new fans loved the Abrams movies, many original fans weren’t impressed at all, we reckon if anyone can catch them all it’s Ash Ketchum. Sorry, bad joke, it’s Simon Pegg.
Do you agree?
Star Trek 3 is dues on July 8th 2016.
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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