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For Simon Pegg<\/strong>, the pressure of co-writing Star Trek Beyond<\/em> was initially so stressful that he quit more than once.<\/p>\n But J.J. Abrams<\/strong> was able to talk him back down from the ledge.<\/p>\n “I quit like three times, I think,” said Pegg. “Every time, J.J. Abrams said, ‘Oh come on, Simon.'”<\/p>\n Pegg and co-writer Doug Jung<\/strong> had to write quickly. “It’s been a very truncated process because of the time frame was a lot shorter than we’d normally have,” said Pegg. “It’s really forced us into action, you make use of the time you have.”<\/p>\n The duo was up to the challenge, in fact they wrote too much. Forty-five pages of script had to be cut, to get the movie down from three hours to two hours and fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n Pegg is relaxed enough now to joke about writing for an odd-numbered Trek movie. ”<\/p>\n “Funny, I remember there was a line in Spaced<\/em> about certainty,” he says. “I said, ‘As sure as eggs is eggs, as sure as day follows night, as sure as every odd-numbered Star Trek<\/em> movie is shit…’ \u2013 and I am now writing Star Trek 13.<\/em> I think I would have been apoplectic with the irony of it all, you know. And I love thinking about that, the circularity of having been a fan of these things as a kid and now being part of them. And I feel very lucky and I feel \u2013 in my quietest, most private moments \u2013 proud of myself.”<\/p>\n Star Trek Beyond<\/em> will debut next July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Simon Pegg, the pressure of co-writing Star Trek Beyond was initially so stressful that…<\/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-41160","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":"35","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41160","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=41160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41162,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41160\/revisions\/41162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}