Sylar to play Spock in JJ Abrams' Star Trek re-make!

[Elf Witch]

Right, but he has also said, repeatedly, that he was a huge fan of the original series. What is it about everyone who works on Trek having to establish their bonafides? No one asked Christian Bale how big a freaking Batman fan he was, and the movie was fine.



Right, the script was written by his two close friends, who are also writers and producers on his TV Show lost. He was already attached as a producer at that point, and had a lot of input on the script before it was written.

He just waited to commit himself to direct. But this has been his movie since day one.

JJ Abrams is the REASON for the movie. It was the studio's desire to work with him, and his passion for this movie, that we have to thank for it being made in the first place.



Everyone all along as stressed that it is not a remake. It's a story starring Kirk and Spock set in the TOS era that we haven't seen, in the established continuity, by a creative team with a passion for Trek.

It's also being made by a director and writing team with a enough juice, that for the first time in several decades, serious blockbuster type money is being spent on trek. They've cast a great young Spock from one of the hottest shows on TV, and gotten Nimoy on board.

And you're freaking "Wary"?

We should be freaking dancing. A real director, and a real writing team got a big-budget trek movie out of a studio that wanted to let the property lie fallow for a decade.

If that doesn't make a trek fan happy, or at least something better than freaking "wary", we obviously don't freaking deserve a movie.


Nimoy has read the script and has great things to say about. He also is the one man who has walked away from money for Trek in the past, because he didn't like the script (he turned down a part in Generations, for example).

Sure it could be dumb. But it's hard to see what else we could ASK from the movie at this stage.

Anyway, call me an optimist. I'd rather look at the very hopeful signs we've seen so far and be hopeful, rather than trying to be as pessimistic as possible so I don't need to endure the stinging pain of disappointment later on.

An actor does not need to be a big fan of a character to do it justice but I would hope the writers and producers were fans so that they actual get what the fans like about the show.

Besides that was a joke about being a Star Wars fan mav be you are to young to remember the good natured feud between Star Wars fans and Trek fans back in the 70s. I was playing homage to that.

You know I have watched so many of the shows I enjoy made into movies or reboot TV series and most of them have just sucked. Mission Impossible 1 they make Phelps the bad guy. Starsky and Hutch was just stupid. Red Dwarf the american version, Coupling the american version :\

I am such a trek fan that I a pain in the butt kind. I know canon and it bugs me when they make major changes Morrus posted on CM the SAG report of what they are looking for in actors and some of it makes me go huh. First of all the main characters are going to be around the same age. About mid 20 early 30s. My problem with that is both Bones and Scotty were older and had a history because of that. They describe Bones as danger seeker. Uhura needs to be a playful tomboy instead of the classy lady she was.

Kirk was special because he was the youngest captain in Starfleet well now he is joined by the youngest chief medical officer , youngest head engineer. What 's wrong there are no actors in their middle 30s early 40s who would like to be in Trek? Or did a plague wipe out all the older people in the Trek Universe so its left to the younguns to run the ship.


Stuff like this makes me just go okay not sounding like something that will interest me so I am going to take a wait and see attidue.

As a member of one of the longest running BSG club formed way back in 1978 I was very disappointed that they went with a reimagining of the show. I have read the script of the reboot and it was great. It took the show in a darker direction was also going to be going with a different type of cylon a human/cylon cyborg. We would have goten to see how the characters had evolved after 20 years. Tigh was supposed to be a harder worn out Commander of the Galactica, Apollo had been missing for years, The colonist had given up looking for earth and had settles against the military's advice on a planet leaving the Glactica in orbit to protect them but slowly over time not giving them the material and supplies they needed to be kept first rate. Then the new hybrids show up.

It does not matter that I watch and enjoy the new BSG that is the one I would rather have been watching.

As for bitching and speculating on an internet board about something new coming out its what fans do. Just look at all the 4E threads.

 

[Elf Witch]

Actually I mis-spoke- they were producers and writers for Abrams' show Alias, not Lost, as well as Transformers ($541 million) and Mission Impossible III ($397 million).

In other words, a couple of guys with chops for writing hit TV shows as well as hit TV movies.

I say again, what exactly do people want for staff on this movie.

Maybe they can resurrect Shakespeare? Ooops, sorry, he was never a Trek fan, he's out.

Sheesh.

As I said before the fact that Abrams is involved is the one thing that makes me have some hope that he will make a Trek movie that feels like a Trek movie like he did with Mission Impossible.

 

[Vigilance]

I am such a trek fan that I a pain in the butt kind. I know canon and it bugs me when they make major changes Morrus posted on CM the SAG report of what they are looking for in actors and some of it makes me go huh. First of all the main characters are going to be around the same age. About mid 20 early 30s. My problem with that is both Bones and Scotty were older and had a history because of that. They describe Bones as danger seeker. Uhura needs to be a playful tomboy instead of the classy lady she was.

Kirk was special because he was the youngest captain in Starfleet well now he is joined by the youngest chief medical officer , youngest head engineer. What 's wrong there are no actors in their middle 30s early 40s who would like to be in Trek? Or did a plague wipe out all the older people in the Trek Universe so its left to the younguns to run the ship.

Well, that casting list looks legit, but then again, the source is AICN, which has been glaringly, stunningly wrong, in the past.

As a member of one of the longest running BSG club formed way back in 1978 I was very disappointed that they went with a reimagining of the show.

Yes, I realize the re-imagining of BSG has left a deep scar in all sci-fi fans, forever, but again, the production team has said again and again that this isn't the case here.

There's a huge gap between "the characters aren't the exact same ages as the actors on the original show and there's some minor personality quirks that are different" (and this is assuming the AICN story is true) and "Starbuck is a girl now".

As for bitching and speculating on an internet board about something new coming out its what fans do. Just look at all the 4E threads.

It's not a matter of the bitching to me, it's the nature of it. A new trek movie, with a proven director and a proven writing team, are making a new trek movie with a budget of over $100 million dollars, and people are bitching about Uhura being a tomboy and McCoy liking danger.

I guess everyone would REALLY be happy if they weren't bothering to make the movie at all.

 

[Elf Witch]

I guess everyone would REALLY be happy if they weren't bothering to make the movie at all.

You do need to chill a little. We fans love nothing better than to put our two cents in. As I said to speculate espically on internet forums. If we didn't we would have little to talk about.

How anyone one of us feels will have no bearing on what is made. Do you remember all the worries being banded about when LOTRs was being made. Or the fans in shock and outrage over MR Mom Michael Keaton being cast as Batman?

The one that I had to eat my words like so many other fans and the author of the book was when Tom Cruise was cast to play Lestat. Oh my god the fun drama of that. There was no way a pretty boy like him could play the bisexual vampire. Anne Rice was having kittens over it. But the movie came out and we were blown away. Anne Rice took out a full page apology to Tom Cruise.

Trek is very important to me and because of that I feel very protective about it and being a fantic about the world the Rodenberry and others created I am nervous about it being done wrong. So for me I am going to take a watch and see attidue. If it turns out to be great I will be the first to stand up and cheer and laugh at how worried I was. But this way I won't get my hopes up and be full of exictment like I did when after 20 years BSG was coming back. Only to be let down because like BSG it is Tek in name only.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

I guess everyone would REALLY be happy if they weren't bothering to make the movie at all.

I don't know about everybody, but from what I have seen so far I would rather there be no movie than this particular movie. And I really want the franchice to continue as well, but I want it to contune, not be prequaled or rebooted.

 

[Ranger REG]

An actor does not need to be a big fan of a character to do it justice but I would hope the writers and producers were fans so that they actual get what the fans like about the show.

I dunno. Nicholas Meyer wasn't a fan of Trek when he took the job of helming The Wrath of Khan.

 

[Ranger REG]

How anyone one of us feels will have no bearing on what is made. Do you remember all the worries being banded about when LOTRs was being made. Or the fans in shock and outrage over MR Mom Michael Keaton being cast as Batman?

Up until American Psycho Christian Bale (who was just a kid in Kenneth Braugher's Henry V), I thought Michael Keaton is the better actor for Bruce Wayne/Batman.

Val Kilmer looks too young to be Bruce when compared to Chris O'Donnell playing Robin.

George Clooney got the chin but nothing else going for him, in or out of the batsuit.

 

[Elf Witch]

I dunno. Nicholas Meyer wasn't a fan of Trek when he took the job of helming The Wrath of Khan.

That's very true but there were people who had been involved in Trek before helping him out.

He also had the orginial actors to work with the ones who created the roles so they brought their knowledge to the project.

And the movie was forward in the timeline.

 

[Elf Witch]

Up until American Psycho Christian Bale (who was just a kid in Kenneth Braugher's Henry V), I thought Michael Keaton is the better actor for Bruce Wayne/Batman.

Val Kilmer looks too young to be Bruce when compared to Chris O'Donnell playing Robin.

George Clooney got the chin but nothing else going for him, in or out of the batsuit.

I really really like the new movie and Bale did such a great job as Bruce Wayne. I liked all the Batman movies even the one with George Clooney but then I like George Clooney.

I thought he was better with Chris O'Donnell because as you said Val Kilmer seemed to young.

 

[Ranger REG]

That's very true but there were people who had been involved in Trek before helping him out.

Really? Where were they when Scott Baird took the job helming Star Trek: Nemesis?

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Where were they when the Shat helmed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier?