What Is Holding Up Star Trek 4? Simon Pegg Explains!

What is happening with Star Trek 4?

For Star Trek fans we all want to see a fourth installment, but this time the movie needs to really outdo the third installment, “Star Trek Beyond…”

CelebnMovies247.com reports that Simon Pegg recently explained that Star Trek 4 has one big obstacle to overcome in order for it to be made.

With no new Star Trek media for four years, J.J. Abrams brought the iconic crew of Star Trek: The Original Series back to the big screen with J.J. Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek. The reboot film reintroduced Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoe Saldaña), Sulu (John Cho), Chekov (Anton Yelchin), and Scotty (Pegg) to a new audience. However, to preserve the original Prime timeline of the Star Trek universe, Abrams created an alternate timeline — dubbed the Kelvin Timeline — which freed the team up to create new stories while revisiting familiar characters.

The 2009 Star Trek proved popular with audiences and spawned two sequels, Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond. However, production on Star Trek 4 has been delayed frequently over the years following the initial Kelvin films’ poor reception. Initially, the sequel was planned to start production shortly after Beyond. A year later, Quentin Tarantino put his hat into the ring with a potential Star Trek script, but plans for that project also stalled. Finally, July 2021 saw Paramount announce Matt Shakman as the Star Trek 4 director, with a planned release date in June 2023. In February 2022, it was reported that Pine and the original cast were in talks to return, but none of their involvement has been confirmed.

Pegg told the audience at FedCon:

A fourth movie is planned. Obviously, the big problem with that is that there are a group of actors who are all busy and all have things going on. We have to find a moment when we can all be together… As soon as they can figure out our moment we can we could all be together, I’m sure we’ll do it. I’d love to get back together with those guys … It’s bittersweet for us now because we lost Anton [Yelchin] and that really, it’s hard. I think we’ll miss him when we’re all together. We will feel that he’s not there. But any chance I get to hang with those guys I’ll always take. They’ve become like family over the last 12 years. So no one’s being coy. It’s not like we’re keeping secrets. We’re just waiting for the right moment for all to coalesce. So stay tuned.

Are you looking forward to Star Trek 4?