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Simon says I'd be spot-on as Scotty

Fri 12 Oct 12:20 PM

Run, Fat Boy, Run star Simon Pegg has been cast as Scotty in JJ Abrams' Star Trek.

The 37-year-old comedian-cum-actor isn't the only new addition to the cast: John Cho, the Harold half of Harold and Kumar, will play the ship's helmsman, Sulu.

Chris Pine is rumoured to be in discussions about playing Captain Kirk, while Eric Bana has been recruited as the bad guy.

The only roles now to be filled are that of the first Enterprise captain, Christopher Pike (pre-Captain Kirk), and Kirk's parents and Bones. Surely the latter part should go to Last King Of Scotland star James McAvoy, who openly expressed an interest in that particular part having initially been linked with the Scotty role.

"If you really look at what Scotty is, he’s only ever Scottish and nothing else," McAvoy told us. "Captain Kirk has a bit of character, Spock had a bit of character, then there’s comedy ethnic guy. But if I was going to play anyone in a Star Trek movie it’d be Bones – Bones thinks he’s sexy. He’s part of that little trio of Shatner [Kirk], Nimoy [Spock] and him and he’ll always be slightly on the outside... I like that."