Speaking to the Toronto Sun, Abrams said: ‘I would say there’s no replacing him. His fellow cast and crew members subsequently offered a series of touching tributes.
Advertisement
Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban and other “Trek” stars introduced the film on stage before the San Diego Symphony performed selections from the film’s score amid a flurry of fireworks and lasers.
Star Trek Beyond is nearly upon us and, while reported to be a “likeable” third outing for the franchise, it will also touchingly provide a posthumous performance from Anton Yelchin who tragically died last month.
Paramount Pictures, Skydance, and Abrams’ Bad Robot – the studios behind the Trek reboot – revealed plans for a new movie on Monday.
Abrams was not sure about how he would address Yelchin’s death within the film. Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the original “Star Trek” movie series, died when “Star Trek Beyond” was in pre-production.
So, with time travel seemingly back in vogue with Star Trek storytellers, let’s look back at the very best timeline jumping episodes from across every Star Trek TV show.
Whether Chekov as a character will be killed off or written out to explain Yelchin’s absence is undetermined though.
Advertisement
“English was perhaps his first language, then he learned another language, and then he had to redesign his brain to speak English again so we had to think about how the voice was going to work”, the actor said.
