Star Wars: Simon Pegg Pitched 'Force Awakens' Deleted Scene

Now that some time has passed, most fans know that Star Trek's Simon Pegg had a fun cameo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, playing Unkar Plutt in Rey's home planet of Jakku. Fans who bought the Blu-Ray also know that Plutt comes back later on and gets his arm ripped off by Chewbacca, which made viewers wish it stayed in the film.

What fans might not know is that Pegg himself pitched the scene to director J.J. Abrams. Sure, it didn't make the final cut but contributing to a Star Wars film in any way would make most fans happy, so no one can really blame Pegg for this.

The Mission Impossible star was in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when he discussed the pitch. Fans who own the Blu-Ray know that Unkar Plutt catches up to Rey in Maz's place and tries shooting her before Chewie rips his arm off. Since it's a deleted scene, no one really considers it a part of the main canon but Pegg does not care. It seems like he was just happy to be in a Star Wars film a bit longer.

"And I shot my scenes on Jakku, which is a sort of desert planet. And then I emailed J.J. Abrams and said, 'Look, the Millennium Falcon, in the original Star Wars, the Empire put a homing beacon on the Falcon and traced it to Yavin IV, the rebel base at the end. What if the homing beacon was still on board and Unkar activated it and used it to track Rey to the Maz's palace? And then he could catch up with her there and have another scene?' And J.J. was like, "Yeah, OK!" So, we shot this scene where Unkar catches up to Rey and he's gonna shoot her and Chewbacca pulls his arm off and like throws it across the room. It wasn't in the film at the end because J.J. realized it was pointless, but I was like, 'I don't care. It happened!'"

Star Wars: The Force Awakens and its sequel, The Last Jedi, are now available on Blu-Ray and DVD, as well as digital outlets.

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