The third installment in the rebooted Star Trek film series, Star Trek Beyond, will be adding actress Shohreh Aghdashloo to its cast, as the film undergoes reshoots next week. Aghdashloo is reportedly on board to play the High Command of the Federation, a role that seems to suggest that Star Trek Beyond won’t quite be entirely Earth-free, as many fans have wanted, seeing as how the Federation’s captial is on that very planet.
Aghdashloo has earned both an Oscar nomination for House of Sand and Fog and was the first Iranian woman to win an Emmy, which she took home for a supporting role in House of Saddam in 2009.
Throughout her career, much of Aghdashloo’s work has been sci-fi-oriented, including parts in such films, TV shows and video games as X-Men: The Last Stand, Grimm, Mass Effect 2 and The Expanse, so Star Trek Beyond fits right in on her résumé.
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As for the film’s reshoots, such is standard practice for movies in general, and even though these are taking place only a few months before Beyond actually hits theaters, there’s little to worry about as far as this meaning trouble for the film.
Star Trek Beyond is set for release on July 22nd 2016 and features returning cast members Chris Pine as James Kirk, Zachary Quinto as Spock, Simon Pegg as Scotty, Zoë Saldana as Uhura, Karl Urban as Bones, John Cho as Sulu and Anton Yelchin as Chekov alongside new additions Idris Elba (Luther), Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Joe Taslim (The Raid) and Lydia Wilson (About Time).
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Originally published March 12, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
