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20:12 - Star Trek: Presurrection
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/26/people.williamshatner.ap/index.html
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Shatner's not in the new Trek movie, but it sounds like it could be interesting:
Abrams' "Trek" film, whose plot is being kept under wraps by distributor Paramount, recounts an early adventure for the crew of the starship Enterprise, with Chris Pines as the young Kirk and Zachary Quinto as the young Spock.
The cast includes Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy, Simon Pegg as engineer Scott, John Cho as helmsman Sulu, Zoe Saldana as communications officer Uhura and Anton Yelchin as navigator Chekov, roles respectively originated by DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig.
So it's the first official production to re-cast the original cast, is it? I mean, it's been done before, and well, but not by Paramount. And now we get to see who of the acting pantheon of 2007 can approximate the one from thirty years before. (Éomer as McCoy? Zow! I hope they can fit his massive shoulders into sickbay. (Seriously: has there been a Karl Urban movie yet where he didn't have gigantic armored shoulders? I can't help but think it ain't no costume; they have to keep casting him in roles with armor just to disguise those shoulders.))
But where does Nimoy fit into this? Telling the whole story as a flashback to a bunch of young Voyager-era cadets?
... Okay, enough geeking. Time to go wonder why the hell I preordered Leopard from Amazon, thus ensuring that I'd have to wait for it to ship while everyone else installed it right after buying it at the store.
UPDATE: Oh yes, and Simon "Scotty" Pegg. It's the part he was born to play!
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Brian Tiemann
