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Steve Guttenbergis ready to make two of his most favorite films a trilogy.
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Guteenberg is ready to bookend the series with a third film if his pals are game, but he admits a key ingredient that made the original so magical is missing:Leonard Nimoy, who directed the film.
By that point, theStar Trekicon had proven he was more than capable behind the camera, directing two successful entries in the sci-fi franchise:Star Trek III: The Search for Spock(1984) andStar Trek IV: The Voyage Home(1986).
“Ted, Tom and myself all had to sign off, so I told Jeffrey that I would go to Leonard’s house and meet him. I was auditioning Leonard,” he says with a laugh. “I’ll never forget, his mother was there and had made stuffed cabbage. Leonard had already built a model of the set. He wanted me to give the okay that I would do the picture with him. And I did. We all did.”
Guttenberg also fondly recalls his realization of just how big of stars his other two castmates were.
“God, you walked down the block with those two guys, forget it,” he says of fans losing their minds. “Tom could stop a whole hockey stadium. They’d all be like, ‘Oh, my God!’ "
source: people.com
