uk.news.yahoo.com - 8/5/2008
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By WENN world entertainment news - Sunday, August 3 01:55 pm Actor Simon Pegg wants to write a new Star Wars story - if he can make friends with director George Lucas. The Shaun of the Dead star is a huge fan of the sci-fi films, but has criticised 1999 prequel movie The Phantom Menace. Now he has his heart set on working for the forthcoming TV series of the legendary franchise - but fears he ...
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Please Oh Please Let Scotty Write Star Wars [Star Wars]
io9 —
... to one particular idea of what Star Wars "has" to be could tell the stories that they wanted. Don't get me wrong; I'm looking forward to Clone Wars as much as the next person, but the idea of someone like Pegg getting to take on the Empire even just for an episode? That's exactly the kind of thing that gets even more excited about the idea of tuning in on a weekly basis. So, how about it, Mr. Lucas? Image by Scott From New Jersey. Pegg eyes Star Wars job [Yahoo]
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The Hopes of a Long Suffering 'Star Wars' Fan
PopWatch —
... ?), director Dave Filoni's pixelfest could be as much fun as watching another person play a videogame. And yet despite my frustrations with the franchise, I keep coming back. I love this mythology, this universe, and these characters. That's why it was so refreshing to hear the rumor that fellow Star Wars aficionado Simon Pegg ( Hot Fuzz ), who's playing Scotty in the upcoming Star Trek , had declared his desire to write an episode of Lucas's long-gestating live action TV series, supposedly set between Episodes III and IV . Pegg supposedly worried, however, that he ...
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