Star Trek 3 actor Anton Yelchin spoke briefly with Nuke the Fridge today about his expectations on the upcoming sequel film, and working with incoming director Justin Lin.
Nuke the Fridge: Have you seen the new script yet?
Anton Yelchin: No, I have not seen it. They keep things pretty heavily under wraps but I’m very excited. It’s a good group of people. It’s good to see them. I’m fortunate now to have done it twice. It’ll be exciting to do it a third time.
Nuke: Have you met with Justin Lin yet?
Anton Yelchin: I have, yeah, I have. I really like him. I think he’s going to do something really interesting with the film. First of all, J.J. is brilliant in the way he makes decisions and I think it’s a big deal that he’s chosen Justin. I think that already says a lot about him. That’s how I felt before I met him, but having met him I think his ideas are really interesting. He has a way of looking at it that is going to both reinvigorate it and also relate it closer to the kind of ethos of the original series.
Nuke: I know you can’t tell us what his plans are, but once we see it will we be able to tell that’s a different approach than the previous two films had?
Anton Yelchin: Well, it’s a different filmmaker so inevitably it is going to be a different approach. I don’t know that two filmmakers can have the same approach. Obviously I can’t talk about what kind of a film it’s going to be. We haven’t shot it yet, but I think it’s going to be a film that works with the other two and yet is it’s own thing.
The next Trek film is slated for release in July 2016.
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