Simon Pegg 'Very Excited' About Star Trek 4 Director

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Clarkson has a longsighted and telling resume of direct for television set . She helmed the first two episodes ofMarvel ’s Jessica JonesandThe Defenders , as well as multiple episodes ofLife on Mars , Dexter , andBanshee . Clarkson also work out with the Kelvin Timeline ’s young Spock actor , Zachary Quinto , on the TV seriesHeroesin the 2000s , as Pegg cite in a recent interview .

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During an audience withJoBloto promote his Modern filmTerminal , Pegg discuss theStar Trekreboot movies and restate that he ’s looking frontward to reunite with the series ' plaster cast . He also took a minute to touch uponClarkson being hired forStar Trek 4 , and lend he ’s glad that a adult female is eventually maneuver aStar Trekmovie :

[ There ’s ] so much more to do with those character reference . I ’m very excited about S.J. Clarkson being hired . [ J.J. Abrams ] emailed us about that just before it was announced . Everybody was so excited . I suppose [ Zachary Quinto has ] actually worked with her . I ’ve see stuff she ’s done , and I think it ’s a great choice , and it ’s about metre .

Star Trekhas always been forward thinking in its themes and molding , so it ’s in force to see the enfranchisement accept steps forward behind the camera too . Clarkson is n’t the only woman to put down a big - budget motion-picture show latterly either ; Ava DuVernay signed on to helmDC’sNew Godsearlier this year , as did Cathy Yan forDC’sBirds of Preyand Michelle MacLaren for Chris Pratt’sCowboy Ninja Viking . manifestly , distaff megahit directors are still super rare , but it ’s nice to see studio taking steps to change that at long , long last .

It ’s also honorable to seeStar Trek 4moving forward again , after having spent much of 2017 in ontogeny limbo . Star Trek Beyondmay have disappoint financially , but it was n’t a proper bomb ( it gross $ 343 million worldwide , albeit on a $ 185 million budget ) and was better receive by Trekkies than its relatively unpopular predecessor , Star Trek Into Darkness . The demand is there for another risky venture with theStar Trekmovie reboot crew ( sadly , sans the late Anton Yelchin ) , and by the look of thingsStar Trek 4is now on class to get in within the next two class .