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Rewriting the Star Trek 3<\/em> script was due to Paramount<\/em>‘s desire to make more money, said Simon Pegg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Paramount wanted to see box office returns more like those from Avengers Assemble<\/em> and less like those from Star Trek into Darkness<\/em>.<\/p>\n “Avengers Assemble<\/em>, which is a pretty nerdy, comic-book, supposedly niche thing, made $1.5 billion dollars,” said Pegg. “Star Trek: Into Darkness<\/em> made half a billion, which is still brilliant.<\/p>\n “But it means that, according to the studio, there\u2019s still $1 billion worth of box office that don’t go and see Star Trek<\/em>. And they want to know why.”<\/p>\n According to the studio, the problem was with the script, namely that it wasn’t broad enough to entice non-Trekkies into the theater. “They had a script for Star Trek<\/em> that wasn’t really working for them,” said Pegg. “I think the studio was worried that it might have been a little bit too Star Trek<\/em>-y.”<\/p>\n “People don\u2019t see [Star Trek<\/em>] being a fun, brightly-colored, Saturday night entertainment like the Avengers<\/em>. [So] make a western or a thriller or a heist movie, then populate that with Star Trek<\/em> characters so it’s more inclusive to an audience that might be a little bit reticent.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rewriting the Star Trek 3 script was due to Paramount‘s desire to make more money,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2818],"tags":[2572],"class_list":["post-40735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-beyond","tag-pegg"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek Beyond<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Beyond","comment_count":"33","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40737,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40735\/revisions\/40737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}