Just breaking …
Christopher Pine has been cast to play the young Captain Kirk in the next Star Trek movie.
The bridge of the starship Enterprise is filling up.
Chris Pine, who had been in talks to join the cast of J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” flick, will play the young James Kirk, while Karl Urban will take on the role of Dr. Leonard McCoy, distributor Paramount confirmed Thursday.They join previously announced cast members Zachary Quinto as Vulcan scientist Spock, Simon Pegg as engineer Scotty, John Cho as helmsman Sulu, Zoe Saldana as communications officer Uhura and Anton Yelchin as navigator Chekov.
Leonard Nimoy, who played Enterprise science officer Spock in the 1960s TV series and six “Star Trek” feature films, also will appear as an older version of the Vulcan.
Eric Bana, the star of Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” and Ang Lee’s “Hulk,” is playing a villain in the “Trek” film, which begins shooting in November and is due out in December 2008.
They couldn’t find someone named Christopher Pike?
UPDATE: It occurred to me that if Nimoy will be playing an older Spock, the story will likely be told as a flashback. So in the framing story will Spock have returned to the Federation or will he still be, where we last saw him, fomenting revolution on Romulus?
UPDATE: I know nothing of these actors, but someone isn’t happy with the choices. (h/t Transterrestial Musings)
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
Works for me. Let’s hear him yell, “Khaaaaaaaaaaan!”
Will they be wearing the original uniforms complete with mini-skirts?
Chekov was a young Ensign when he showed up in the third season, and it was pretty clear he was a recent Academy Graduate. If you go back to before the “5 year mission” began, or even before, Chekov would not have been on board the Enterprise. IIRC, Scott was introduced in a role other than as Chief Engineer…
Robert
Robert – Chekhov appeared second season. (So it’s surprising that Khan remembered his face, if he wasn’t on the ship for Space Seed.)
Scotty I think was always chief engineer. It was Sulu, who, in, Where no man has gone before, was the physicist not the helmsman. (And in the Cage, Spock wasn’t First Officer, Number One, played by Majel Barrett Roddenbury was the first officer.
You’re right, you’re right! After all, it has been almost 40 years…
Robert
Let me get this straight.
Movie-Hulk is going to be the bad guy, and Syler will be a good guy? Next thing you know Spock will be wearing the goatee again…
So, the Hulk is the bad guy; Syler is a good guy. Does Spock have a beard in this film, by any chance?