Simon Pegg Is “Really Happy” For Roberto Orci To Direct Star Trek 3

Simon Pegg, who played Scotty in director J.J. Abrams's Star Trek reboot in 2009, and in the 2012 sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, sat down with BBC Magazine, and discussed screenwriter Roberto Orci now becoming the director for the third entry in the franchise.

"He emailed me before the news broke saying: 'Hey man, I might be doing this, shall we nerd out?'.

I'm really happy he's doing it as it's kept within the family kind of thing, it's not somebody coming in from outside.

Bob's been there since the first Star Trek - by that I mean the 2009 one - so it seemed to make perfect sense that he come in as a director on this one because he gets it.

He was always the most Trekkie of all of those guys anyway, he's always understood the story the best so it's great that he's going to be involved in the writing and directing.

I don't think JJ would be able to let it completely go because that's not in his nature."

Paramount Pictures still have to approve the script, and Orci's vision, to schedule the film for release and hire the screenwriter to helm the property.

Orci is currently working on the script for Star Trek 3 with newcomers J.D. Payne, and Patrick McKay.

Source - BBC

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