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The new Star Trek movie script has to be done by June, as Simon Pegg chats about penning the new film.

Simon Pegg is currently undertaking promotional duties for his new film, Kill Me Three Times, and as part of that, he's been chatting to Collider about the new Star Trek film, that he's taking on co-writing duties for this time around.

Pegg is penning the script along with Doug Jung, and he admitted that "the timeframe we're working in is extremely tight. It means we're having to come up with the goods. We can't be lazy about it".

How tight? Well, the screenplay needs to be done by June ("come hell or high water"). "The production is hammering on the door asking 'when can we build this? What are we gonna build? Who's in it?". "It's an interesting process", he notes.

How is he approaching the film? With some reverence. "I have to abide by certain rules and do right by the original series, and not be too post-modern with it and not be too aware of itself. I have to try to take on the spirit of the show, rather than fill it with stuff that people will just go 'oh, yeah, that’s from episode something or other'. It’s more than that".

He also touched on how he got the writing job, recalling that he and producer Bryan Burk were chatting about the direction to take the film, and musing whether "we should go back to the drawing board, a little bit, with the screenplay". It was after these discussions that Burk invited Pegg to take a crack at the script, something he adds is "a big responsibility".

The new Star Trek film, which Justin Lin is directing, will be released on July 8th 2016. Kill Me Three Times gets its US release next month, meanwhile. We don't yet have a UK release date for it.

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