Scotty Will Have a Smaller Role in STAR TREK BEYOND

In a new interview with the UK’s Metro website, STAR TREK BEYOND actor and co-writer Simon Pegg revealed that he’s reduced Montgomery Scott’s role in the upcoming film due to the demands of his scripting role.

There is a lot of pressure [to finish the script]. The way movie-making works these days is that as soon as you have a structure, when all the sets and the physical aspects of the film are locked in, the dialogue and stuff is always a moveable feat. We’ll be writing it right up until the edit, I think.

The pressure to get a kind of set structure is on, but for everything else, it’s a work in progress.

I feel like [Scotty’s role will be] less, because I’m going to have to be on set all the time anyway, as a writer, so I should write myself out so I can have time to be the writer.

Some have speculated that BEYOND would become a Scotty-heavy film due to Pegg’s influence on the script, but his comments today certainly seem to point the other direction.

STAR TREK BEYOND is filming now in Vancouver and is due out July 8, 2016.