Star Trek XI - is XI pronounced "AIIIIIEEEE"? if
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Sokar Rostau
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Maybe my memory is a bit hazy, or maybe it just demonstrates how "good" Star Trek films are, but wasn't Star Trek IV the one where they went back to 1986 to save the humpback whales?
Thelioness
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I think I want to cry.
S Z
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I was going to go ape-**** at the suggestion of Ben Affleck as Kirk, but given that he has around the same level as acting talent as Shatner he'd probably do a good job. In any event, the character is so well defined that it would be pretty hard to bugger it up.
Good casting for Bones and Spock is more important in my view. Sinise I could just about see, but Brody just doesn't seem to fit the mould.
Good casting for Bones and Spock is more important in my view. Sinise I could just about see, but Brody just doesn't seem to fit the mould.
Sir EvilFreeSmeg
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May the suckage of this film form it's own black hole and destroy everybody involved
jmervyn
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I'd never put that past Affleck...
The character of Kirk is hardly what I'd call multi-dimensional; plus Iown Gryfffuthafdsopui34t manages to breathe more life into Horatio Hornblower in a mini-series than Shatner has managed during his entire career.
Smeg - Even if that happened, they would just invent some time travel story line and comem up with something worse to make a Trek movie out of.
Let's see, Kirk and Spock get sucked into a black hole, and try to use the slingshot effect to escape it, Spock's calculations prove to be wrong and they end up tearing a hole in space time and creating an alternate reality where Kirk is a drunk who torpedoes the Botany Bay for kicks, and never gets into a cat and mouse with Kahn, and Spock is a fullblood Vulcan preist who decides to meditate on the importance of emotions..
This leads us to not having Kirk yell KAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!, and growing fat on bagels and beer, and Spock going senile because he just can't feel fine.
Or whatever.
Let's see, Kirk and Spock get sucked into a black hole, and try to use the slingshot effect to escape it, Spock's calculations prove to be wrong and they end up tearing a hole in space time and creating an alternate reality where Kirk is a drunk who torpedoes the Botany Bay for kicks, and never gets into a cat and mouse with Kahn, and Spock is a fullblood Vulcan preist who decides to meditate on the importance of emotions..
This leads us to not having Kirk yell KAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!, and growing fat on bagels and beer, and Spock going senile because he just can't feel fine.
Or whatever.
Sir EvilFreeSmeg
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Gorny, I hate you
jmervyn
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Thelioness
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Ok, so if you (as in you all) were doing the casting, what current actors* would you pick for the main roles?
Kirk, Spock, & Bones, bonus points for Scotty, and the rest of the bridge crew.
*current actor - meaning that they must have stared in a movie/TV show and still be alive and kicking. (no dead actors or no names)
Kirk, Spock, & Bones, bonus points for Scotty, and the rest of the bridge crew.
*current actor - meaning that they must have stared in a movie/TV show and still be alive and kicking. (no dead actors or no names)
Jigga-Scrooge
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Well there's always hope. The recent spate of "back to the roots" re-imaginings (Batman begins, Casino Royale, Battlestar Galactica) have actually been pretty decent, so there's hope that they will do this one right.
Besides, I think Star Trek: Nemesis broke the "odd-even" trek movie curse.
Besides, I think Star Trek: Nemesis broke the "odd-even" trek movie curse.
Sir EvilFreeSmeg
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That's ok, last night I got involved in what could be a huge new concept in marketing beer. I can't tell you, it's a suprise.
jmervyn
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About the only one that has been mentioned from the article that I'd agree with is the guy from Lost as Sulu. Otherwise, I'd tend to go with unknowns. You're going to tick the fanbois off no matter what, but why not do so with people who could make their careers by being unfavorably compared to Shatner, rather than people whose careers will be broken by same.
Methinks I smell yet more reality series brewing... "Who wants to be Captain Kirk?!" - "American Spock" etc.
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Smeggums, nobody wants "used beer".