Star Trek’s Simon Pegg isn’t interested in joining The MCU.
If you were hoping for Simon Pegg to leave behind Star Trek for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (aka The MCU), you’re going to be out of luck on that one. Pegg has a history of doing major film projects, like Star Trek, where he plays Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, as well as his turn on The Mission Impossible franchise and The Boys series, where his likeness was actually used as the inspiration for the Hughie character.
He’s also famous for his turn in the Cornetto Trilogy, which is made up of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The End of the World.
Yet, when he was asked in a recent interview with Newsweek if he’d have any interest in a turn in the MCU, Pegg was quick to dismiss the idea. Pegg doesn’t seem to mind the MCU but wants to be in projects that target an older fanbase, as he told Newsweek;
"I kind of want to do more sort of grown-up stuff in the future. I think Mission Impossible is a very grown-up franchise. I think it’s a franchise which is aimed less at big kids than it is just big people, but I quite want to do some more drama. I’m not in any rush to join the MCU or anything like that. I kind of feel like I kind of want to be a bit more free. You join those things, and then you’re tied to them for years, and that can be a little bit restrictive."
Simon Pegg doesn’t want to be tied down to one property
While the idea of targetting a group of fans of a certain age is one reason he’s fine not being part of the franchise, it’s also a time suck. Some love it, they get a recurring paycheck, steady work, and a fanbase that will be their diehard supporter for years to come.
It also means giving up a lot of projects and not being as creative with your selection of work. It’s why Chris Evans left but Chirs Hemsworth stayed. That flexibility is important to some but not others and that’s ok.
For Pegg, he sure does like doing projects that don’t usually fall in line with the rest of the mainstream MCU cast. He loves his zany science fiction, and that may not be doable with the scheduling that the MCU demands, so it makes sense that he’d want to avoid it for now.