diz_girl
10-22-2007, 11:55 AM
I don't know if this has been discussed before - I've been away for a while having a baby.
I just read the casting for the new Star Trek movie and it looks interesting. Here it is:
Kirk - Chris Pine (the love interest from Princess Diaries 2)
Spock - Zachary Qunito (Sylar from Heroes) and Leonard Nimoy (of course).
Bones - Karl Urban (from LOTR - the Rohan dude - and the Bourne Supremacy - the Russian assasin).
Scotty - Simon Pegg (from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz).
Uhura - Zoe Saldana (the female pirate from the first POTC movie).
Sulu - John Cho (from Harld and Kumar - I LOVE that movie - next up is Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay - no I'm not kidding).
Checkov - Anton Yelchin (from Charlie Bartlett - he was in the title role).
Nero - the baddie - Eric Bana (he was the Hulk and was also in Munich and Troy).
The movie is to cover their days during or just after Starfleet Academy, seen as a flashback from an older Spock. JJ Abrams is directing. Release date is December 2008.
IMHO - It's a good cast, a decent director (although he mainly has done TV work - Alias, Hercules and Xena) and if the script is halfway decent, then it'll be worth seeing. I can see Simon Pegg being excellent as Scotty and stealing every scene. I can't see Karl Urban as Bones - he's just too much of a hottie - but he has intensity and that's what the person playing Bones needs.
Discuss.
I just read the casting for the new Star Trek movie and it looks interesting. Here it is:
Kirk - Chris Pine (the love interest from Princess Diaries 2)
Spock - Zachary Qunito (Sylar from Heroes) and Leonard Nimoy (of course).
Bones - Karl Urban (from LOTR - the Rohan dude - and the Bourne Supremacy - the Russian assasin).
Scotty - Simon Pegg (from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz).
Uhura - Zoe Saldana (the female pirate from the first POTC movie).
Sulu - John Cho (from Harld and Kumar - I LOVE that movie - next up is Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay - no I'm not kidding).
Checkov - Anton Yelchin (from Charlie Bartlett - he was in the title role).
Nero - the baddie - Eric Bana (he was the Hulk and was also in Munich and Troy).
The movie is to cover their days during or just after Starfleet Academy, seen as a flashback from an older Spock. JJ Abrams is directing. Release date is December 2008.
IMHO - It's a good cast, a decent director (although he mainly has done TV work - Alias, Hercules and Xena) and if the script is halfway decent, then it'll be worth seeing. I can see Simon Pegg being excellent as Scotty and stealing every scene. I can't see Karl Urban as Bones - he's just too much of a hottie - but he has intensity and that's what the person playing Bones needs.
Discuss.