by Ronan O’Flaherty for TrekCore.com
Yesterday’s London premiere of STAR TREK BEYOND continued the international roll-out of the new Star Trek adventure, and our team was there at the white carpet to catch up with BEYOND director Justin Lin – much to his surprise!
If you’ve been coming to our site for the last couple of years, you know we’re addicted to finding as many Star Trek deleted scenes as we can: from our campaign to get Next Generation cut footage to the TNG Blu-ray releases after snagging several old VHS tapes of footage, to reviewing the Star Trek Into Darkness cut sequences months before Paramount announced the Compendium Blu-ray set, to even finding the only known snippet of Star Trek: First Contact footage – and interviewing its star!
So OF COURSE we had to ask Justin Lin about his edits to STAR TREK BEYOND! Check out our exclusive interview with the director above, speaking for the first time about the scripted sequences that didn’t make the cut – and if we’ll get an extended edition of this year’s film!