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Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), directed by Edgar Wright. He and Wright co-wrote the films Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), known collectively as the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, all of which saw Wright directing and Pegg starring alongside Nick Frost. Pegg and Frost also wrote and starred in the sci-fi comedy film Paul (2011). Pegg is one of the few performers to have achieved what Radio Times calls the "Holy Grail of Nerd-dom", having played popular supporting characters in Doctor Who (2005), Star Trek as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (2009–2016), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). He stars as Benji Dunn in the Mission: Impossible film series (2006–present). He provided the voice of Buck in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Collision Course(2016), and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022).
Ah, who didn't like the mid-to-late 2000s Hasbro toy adaptations? Other than everyone who wasn't a straight white 12-year-old boy, I guess. All jokes aside, with the new Masters of the Universe film looking like a flop before it's even come out, I ponder if the film would've been a certified hit way back in 2008, just a year after the first Transformers movie, when we were still stupid enough to watch this kind of slop (don't get me wrong, we're still stupid now, just not in this extremely specific area. In fact, I can picture the story now: with Eternia now under the rule of Skeletor, the monster now plans to expand his conquest to Earth, the planet He-Man had been banished to. With the help of a couple of horny high-schoolers (I see you, Bay!), He-Man must come back and save the world again! Throw in a couple Harriers and McG coming off a mediocre sports movie, soon to direct the most forgettable Terminator, and you've got yourself a solid 600 million dollar box office and a Mr. Plinkett review!
