Justin Lin flanked by Danny Pudi and Kim Kold as Beyond aliens. While most projects of this scale have a year or more of prep time, Star Trek Beyond only had months. Abrams, still a producer and architect of the rebooted Trek franchise, recruited Justin Lin, the director of several Fast and Furious films. ![]() But his script didn’t fly with Paramount executives: Simon Pegg, the Enterprise’s stalwart chief engineer Montgomery Scott, was brought on to rewrite the screenplay with Doug Jung, best known for his work on HBO’s Big Love. Abrams, the director of the previous two Treks, off in a galaxy far, far away, Roberto Orci, a co-writer on Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), was tapped to write and direct Beyond. Now, however, the setting feels more like a construction site than a film shoot. Chris Pine wheezes as sawdust relentlessly rains down on the soundstage, one of three otherwise nondescript warehouse-size buildings tucked under train tracks in suburban Vancouver, B.C., where the sprawling galaxy of Beyond will eventually be housed. ![]() It’s the middle of July 2015, and the cast and crew of Star Trek Beyond, just three weeks into filming, are already feeling the crunch. Mere trifles compared to the daunting new adversary staring down the crew of the starship Enterprise: time. ‘Star Trek Beyond’ cast on Enterprise bridge: (from left) Anton Yelchin, Karl Urban, Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, and John Cho.
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