The as yet untitled upcoming Star Trek movie hasn’t even begun filming yet and it’s already had a great deal of production issues. Originally Patrick McKay, John D. Payne and Roberto Orci were writing the script for the film when Orci was set to be the director.
Now Deadline is reporting that Simon Pegg has been hired by Paramount Pictures to co-write the film. He’ll be working with Doug Jung who is the co-creator of the TNT police drama “Dark Blue”.
As far as Pegg’s writing work goes, he’s best known for writing films such as “Shaun of the Dead”, “Hot Fuzz” and “The World’s End”.
The upcoming Star Trek film is still scheduled for a release date of July 8, 2016.
