

And he said, “I can’t man, I’ve got to go back to my trailer.” I was like, “Okay, why?” He was translating, like, an esoteric Russian novel into English, just because that’s what he wanted to do. I invited him back to my trailer to play guitar because I knew he played guitar, and he played guitar really, really, really well. We’re grieving the loss of a great friend and a great human being, and he can never be replaced.Ĭhris Pine: I remember one of the first times I met him, like nine years ago or whatever, he was 17. For all of us, it’s almost incomprehensible to be at a point where we have to talk about him in the past. We’re at a point where we should be celebrating, not only this film, but this beautiful man, this talented man. Karl Urban: It’s devastating to lose a family member. Of course, due to the untimely death of Anton Yelchin, the character of Chekov was not recast, and instead, the role was rewritten.Absent but not forgotten was Anton Yelchin, who recently passed, but lives on on screen, so the cast sees the film as a celebration of their fallen brother:
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Zoe Saldaña has commented on some frustration for working in so many franchise films, but she would return if the movie was able to pull itself together. Karl Urban, who plays Bones, said that he had some scheduling conflicts due to his work on The Boys, but now that the schedule has changed, his participation remains to be seen. Related: Worf's Best Moments in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Ranked

Simon Pegg, even though he helped write Star Trek: Beyond and played Scotty, made no commitments either way, but it would be likely that he would return due to his major involvement with the films. Zachary Quinto had been confirmed as Spock, and John Cho would come back as Sulu. Although talks fell through with Chris Hemsworth and his part in the film, Chris Pine ended up making a solid deal to return as Captain James T. The original hope for the movie - no matter which way the plot went - was to get as much of the original cast back on board as possible. Some have even wondered if he could be cast as a villain. Fans have begun an outcry, saying that Nicolas Cage is exactly what Star Trek needs. Some recent news has given fans faint sparks of hope however when Sofia Boutella said she would be happy to return and Nick Cage has declared himself a Trekkie. That was the state of things when Shakman dropped out of the project to direct the Fantastic Four reboot and Paramount removed Star Trek 4 from their release schedule. The hope was to reassemble the old cast and work more directly on following the Kelvin timeline. Eventually, that pitch was scrapped and writers began working on another that would be a direct sequel to Star Trek: Beyond. It’d be a bit weird now to flash back to your father and ‘Why is he so much older than when he died?’"Ĭlearly, the plot wasn’t for everyone. And I thought, ‘Oh, cool, let’s figure that out and keep going’ and then I think everyone just got busy and so on. "It wasn’t what I was thinking it would have been or could have been. In an interview with Josh Horowitz, Hemsworth explained how he felt about the story: This version of the script made it far enough through development to actually reach the actors. One of the biggest possibilities for a script came with grabbing Chris Hemsworth out of the Marvel universe and getting him to reprise his role from the 2009 film as George Kirk, James T.

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