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Pegg: Star Trek not a remake, getting back to the good stuff |
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 28 August 2008
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 In an interview with Starlog, Simon Pegg addressed the issue of Star Trek (2009) being a remake vs. a reboot vs. the recently coined “reimagining.” The actor, who is playing Scotty in the upcoming Trek prequel, said this about the remake talk: “The weird thing - and I think this goes for both Star Trek and Doctor Who - is that neither of them are remakes. I often see Star Trek being referred to as a remake, and it really isn't. It's another Star Trek film; it's another movie in the series. It's the continuing mission.”
Pegg later had an interview with, well, nerd website Hardcore Nerdity (yeah), where he was asked about what it was like stepping into the shoes of such an iconic character:
 James Doohan, he owns that role and he always will. He was an amazing, a brilliant character. Such a sort of layered and interesting guy, it is not like Hamlet, there has only been one Scotty, really. I thought the best thing I can do as a tribute to him was to approach it from scratch and try and figure out the same thing he did when he picked up a script for the first time. I didn’t want to do an impression of him as that would be disrespectful and also not only to James, but to the franchise and to the show, so like everyone, we got back to the roots of the character and we all did our portrayals like that. |
And on the relevancy of Star Trek’s optimism in our post-9/11 paranoia-filled word:
| Gene Roddenberry created this vision of an integrated universe–it was way ahead of its time. It had the first interracial kiss, on television, was on Star Trek. The very notion of... I love the fact that the engineer was Scottish, because Scotland has a history of incredibly innovative engineers. And he did paint this really clever futureverse. I think that to suggest that we can’t still get there is just kind of giving up. So, I hope that’s not the case. Obviously, JJ’s Star Trek is going to have JJ’s stamp on it. It’ll be be contemporary, and gritty, but it’s very much Star Trek. |
And will Star Trek bring back the Trek franchise like Casino Royale did for James Bond and Batman Begins did for Batman?
| I think it’s very much in that vein. It’s very much about getting back to what made it good in the first place. That’s what both those films have done, in Casino Royale and Batman Begins. They stripped it back down to the beginning and what appealed at the very conception. What happens with things that exist for a long time is they become augmented and gimmicky, and things change, and they kind of - they’re added to and added to, to try and make them better, and it ends up just toppling over under the weight of its own sort of self-parody. Whereas this is really getting back to it. I know there’s some consternation within the fan base, but they’re going to see new Star Trek with the original [characters]. I don’t know what’s not to be f**king excited about! I am, and I’m in it. |
And lastly, there’s the small things:
| [Star Trek’s] in the hands of a person who really cares about it. We had advisors on set the whole time; if we needed to know what happened on a... if there was an away mission and only a certain amount of people went, then who carried the tricorder; we got it all from the people that really know. And JJ was absolutely at pains to make sure that it’s totally and utterly... and there’s a lot in it for the fan. There’s a lot of little ironies in there that you’ll pick up on if you know the series and you know the mythology. It’s going to be crackin’! |
[via: Starlog and Hardcore Nerdity]
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