Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg is expected to star in the next Star Trek movie.

The 25 year old film franchise, which began ten years after the original television series was cancelled in the US, has enjoyed solid but not spectacular success, with the action-packed time travel adventure Star Trek: First Contact a high water mark with a gross in the region of $150m.

With the budget for the eleventh film already projected to be more than $160m, producers Paramount are evidently hoping to entice a far wider audience than Star Trek's devoted core fanbase.

The last Star Trek movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, has been poorest performer of the series so far with a somewhat disappointing $67 million yield at the box office.

The next outing for the crew of the Enterprise represents a complete reboot of the series, with characters from the 1960s series being played by a new cast which is expected to include Pegg as the irascible Linlithgow engineer Montgomery Scott.

Other stars include Eric Bana, as the principal villain of the piece, and Heroes favourite Zachary Quinto as a young Mr. Spock.

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