Star Trek Beyond Is Reshooting And Adding An Entirely New Cast Member

Star Trek Beyond Is Reshooting And Adding An Entirely New Cast Member

Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond is coming in a few shorts months, but news just broke of reshoots as well as the addition of a new cast member. Deadline reports Shohreh Aghdashloo (24, The Expanse) has been added to the cast as the High Command of the Federation.

Several months ago Lin sounded very confident about the direction the film was going. However, this news suggests something was not working when people finally watched the whole thing together. The good news is, if there was a problem, these reshoots are happening to fix it. In theory, they will improve the movie… though it is a bit worrisome for a new actress to come onto a project this late. If Aghdashloo’s character is a wholly new addition, it could be anything from a quick fix to something more radical.

Star Trek Beyond Is Reshooting And Adding An Entirely New Cast Member

Aghdashloo herself, though, is simply an amazing actress. She first hit with American audiences on 24, was nominated for an Oscar for House of Sand and Fog, won an Emmy for House of Saddam, and has even been in a big genre movie before. She played Dr Kavita Rao in X-Men: The Last Stand. Recently, she was seen on Grimm and is currently on SyFy’s The Expanse.

Star Trek Beyond is still scheduled for release on July 21.


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