No Replacement For Anton Yelchin, Director JJ Abrams Plans To Retire Character
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By Monojit Mandal
JJ
Abrams,
director
of
the
first
two
installments
of
Star
Trek
series,
and
producer
of
the
latest
release,
Star
Trek
Beyond,
is
all
set
to
pay
a
lovely
tribute
to
his
late
actor
Anton
Yelchin
by
dropping
off
his
character
entirely
from
the
movie.
Abrams
has
already
made
up
his
mind
to
retire
the
character
-
Pavel
Chekov,
played
by
Anton
Yelchin
in
the
movie
Star
Trek,
and
declared
that
the
character
will
never
be
recasted
or
replaced
by
any
other.
"I
would
say
there's
no
replacing
him",
"There's
no
re-casting.
I
can't
possibly
imagine
that,
and
I
think
Anton
deserves
better," says
the
film-maker.
Abrams
also
says
that
he
has
been
working
on
the
prospect
on
how
to
retire
the
character
and
earlier,
he
had
possibly
thought
of
killing
the
character,
but
nothing
has
been
finalized
yet.
Yelchin,
the
Saint
Petersburg
born
actor,
died
an
unfortunate
death
at
the
age
of
27.
When
parking
his
car,
it
slipped
off
the
driveway
and
rolled
down
toward
him
only
to
paste
him
against
the
gate.
He
was
a
prankster
in
his
unit
and
loved
by
all
his
crew
members
and
cast
very
fondly.
The
whole
unit
is
mourning
his
unfortunate
death
and
the
film-maker
himself
seems
to
be
highly
grieved
by
the
development,
says
the
actor
deserved
much
better
than
what
he
got
in
life.