{"id":41431,"date":"2015-08-13T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=41431"},"modified":"2015-08-13T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:50:02","slug":"pegg-less-scotty-in-star-trek-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/08\/pegg-less-scotty-in-star-trek-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegg: Less Scotty In Star Trek Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <strong>Simon Pegg<\/strong>, fans will see less of Scotty in <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The writer\/actor made the statement while promoting his latest work in the sci-fi comedy <em>Absolutely Anything<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pegg was asked first how much pressure he was under to finish the <em>Star Trek<\/em> script. &#8220;There is a lot of pressure,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I feel like it&#8217;s something&#8230;the way moviemaking works these days is that as soon as you have a structure and all the sets and the kind of physical aspects of the film are locked in, the dialogue and stuff is always a moveable [illegible] so we&#8217;ll be writing it right up until the edit, I think. 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