Simon Pegg Signs Up To Co-Write 'Star Trek 3'

The road for Star Trek 3 has been a bumpy one. After director JJ Abrams left the project for Star Wars it was announced that writer Roberto Orci would step in to write and direct the film. The pressure must have built given this would have been his first feature film the writer then stepped away from the project. He goes onto reveal he would neither write nor direct the sequel but simply produce. Then we heard several directors were being looked at to direct the new project including Fast & Furious director Justin Lin. Now it's being reported by Deadline that Scotty himself Simon Pegg had signed on to rewrite the script with another Doug Jung.