{"id":40549,"date":"2015-04-23T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=40549"},"modified":"2015-04-23T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T21:04:09","slug":"pegg-writing-kickass-role-for-elba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/04\/pegg-writing-kickass-role-for-elba\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegg Writing Kickass Role For Elba"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s not known yet what Idris Elba<\/strong>‘s role in Star Trek 3<\/em> will be, but Simon Pegg<\/strong> is hard at work writing it and promises a “kickass role” for the actor.<\/p>\n

Pegg made his comments during an event promoting Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Elba’s role will be an original character, promised Pegg. “Idris is an extraordinary actor and we’re trying to write him a kickass role,” he said. “This is the five year mission; we’re out there. We don’t need to keep bumping into the same five people. It\u2019s a massive universe!”<\/p>\n

Pegg didn’t say whether Elba would be playing a character from a familiar race or not, and he joked with the interviewer when asked if Elba would actually be in the movie. “I think so,” he said. “Honestly, I read these things on the Internet…as far as I know, that’s happening.”<\/p>\n

More of Pegg’s Trek discussion can be found beginning at the halfway mark of the video below.<\/p>\n