Simon Pegg casts doubt on another Kelvin Timeline Star Trek film: “We’ve lost momentum”

Simon Pegg as Montgomery Scott in Star Trek Beyond

While development of the television side of Star Trek continues apace, the film side of things seems to be in question. In a new interview over the weekend, Kelvin Timeline Star Trek star Simon Pegg has cast doubt on whether another film will ever be made with that cast.

Speaking to GamesRadar+ chiefly about his new film, Lost Transmissions, Pegg spoke frankly when he was asked about a possible sequel to Star Trek Beyond. “The fact is, Star Trek movies don’t make Marvel money,” Pegg said. “They make maybe $500m at the most, and to make one now, on the scale they’ve set themselves, is $200m. You have to make three times that to make a profit.”

Pegg went on to blame poor handling of Beyond, and co-star Anton Yelchin’s death, for the lack of movement of the film franchise since 2016. “I don’t feel like the last one...They didn’t really take advantage of the 50th anniversary,” he said. “The regimen at the time dropped the ball on the promo of the film. And we’ve lost momentum. I think losing Anton [Yelchin] was a huge blow to our little family, and our enthusiasm to do another one might have been affected by that.”

While we’ve had confirmation from ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish that another Star Trek film is definitely in the works, Pegg’s comments, combined with earlier comments from the film’s director Noah Hawley, make it seem less and less likely that we’ll be seeing Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the Kelvin Timeline cast in uniform in the future.