"Star Trek Beyond" is actively gearing up with actors all lined up for the film.
While the third installment to the highly anticipated sci-fi film suffered from setbacks due to production, cast member Simon Pegg revealed that after he was able to help rewrite the screenplay for just under six months, everything is now in the right track.
Talking to Coming Soon, the "Hot Fuzz" actor said that the shooting was "fun."
"It was fantastic fun," Pegg said. "It was emotional highs and lows all the way because we were under a lot of pressure, because the timeframe was a lot smaller than it would normally be."
"You write a film of that size, you usually get a year or so, but I think we started maybe six months before we went into production," he added. "Just under six months and we were already in pre-production, which meant that things had to be designed and set pieces had to be created and the pressure on us to deliver was extraordinary, but me and Doug Jung, together with Justin (Lin) and our producers Leslie, just stood up to it and did it, and actually by the time we started shooting, it had become pretty fun."
"It was tense the whole time, but it was a pretty amazing train set to get to play with."
Meanwhile, newly cast Idris Elba, who is reportedly going to play the new villain in "Star Trek Beyond" teased his role in an interview with MTV.
"Simon and the team have written a very interesting, complex journey for my character," Elba revealed to MTV. "You've never seen me play a character like this."
"I think Star Trek has prided themselves as being quite classic when it comes to villains. He's a guy who wants to end the world, there's no doubt about that. But in this version of the film, there's a slightly different twist to that."
He also weighed in on how his character could be groundbreaking for the scifi series.
"It's quite an interesting journey, which I think is groundbreaking for the franchise. But it still keeps with the 'classic bad guy is a classic bad guy' tone."
"Star Trek Beyond" cast line up includes Chris Pine as Captain James T. Kirk, Zachary Quinto as Spock, Simon Pegg as Scotty, Karl Urban as Leonard McCoy a.k.a. Bones, Zoe Saldana as Uhura, John Cho as Hikaru Sulu and Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov.
The movie will introduce series new comers, Idris Elba (Pacific Rim, Prometheus) and Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service).
"Star Trek Beyond" release date is set on July 22, 2016, Variety confirmed.
