oh dear. not again....
Sep. 7th, 2006 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Just when you thought the franchise had finally died... they're planning Star Trek XI. With new actors cast as Kirk and Spock. So, apparently they've given up on the more recent branches and are trying to get back to their roots... not a bad choice
What do you think, folks? Will this resurrect a dying dinosaur, or will it be the last godawful blow that makes all of us who were once fans wish we'd never heard the name Star Trek?
Also, casting thoughts? Because it's fun to make silly stuff up for things like this. XD
What do you think, folks? Will this resurrect a dying dinosaur, or will it be the last godawful blow that makes all of us who were once fans wish we'd never heard the name Star Trek?
Also, casting thoughts? Because it's fun to make silly stuff up for things like this. XD
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Date: 2006-09-07 06:11 pm (UTC)I'm looking forward to it. >D
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Date: 2006-09-07 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 06:15 pm (UTC)(Note--I have not ignored the new Star Trek offerings out of spite or malice. I just can't be assed to spend the time.)
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Date: 2006-09-07 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 06:17 pm (UTC)Matt Damon has already been confirmed as Kirk. o.o I am still wrapping my mind around it.
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Date: 2006-09-07 06:31 pm (UTC)Now they need Ben Affleck as Spock.no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 06:51 pm (UTC)I think he can do it, but it's just...not... Shatner. o.o I like MD.
Ben as spock = hahahahahahaahha!
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Date: 2006-09-07 09:36 pm (UTC)I'm thinking.... that I might... actually... like Kirk... if he wasn't... portrayed by... Shatner.
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Date: 2006-09-07 06:46 pm (UTC)Personally, I think it's a great idea. J.J. Abrams is producing and has strongly implied that he wants to go back to the old velour uniforms and brightly colored sets. He's also giving Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner input/partial approval of the actors cast as young Kirk and Spock.
Sounds good to me, and I was a Trekkie as far back as 1973....
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Date: 2006-09-07 06:53 pm (UTC)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/
It is noted as rumored though... :(
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Date: 2006-09-07 07:22 pm (UTC)IMHO, it's not a great choice - Damon and Shatner don't look anything alike, Damon is way too old o play a young Kirk, and if he signs, I have this awful feeling he'd want Ben Affleck to play either Spock or McCoy. Besides, why would an actor with more than one successful franchise of his own (the Ripley movies, the Bourne movies) want, or more importantly in Hollywood, *need* to pit himself against an icon like Kirk? This is like Jude Law suddenly deciding that he wants to play Rick in a remake of Casablanca.
I could be wrong, but I don't put much stock in this one....
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Date: 2006-09-07 09:36 pm (UTC)And, of course, there's no denying that Damon has a following that would bring an audience that otherwise wouldn't look twice at a Star Trek film. Honestly, I'm having a hard time thinking of down-sides on this one, the more I think about it.
The trick with this kind of thing is that if they try to cast exactly to someone who looks like a young Shatner or a young Nimoy, they risk either never getting it, or ending up with someone based solely on appearance, which could ruin the production in terms of acting.
In terms of Damon's choice to take the role... what little boy of that general generation didn't want to be Captain Kirk at least at some point in his life?
Now, on the Ben Affleck gripe, that I'll give you. It's a funny mental image in terms of parody (you know they'd put him as Spock...), but I can't see it actually working. I'd like to think neither Damon nor the producers would be that dumb, though.
I wonder who they've got writing this monster...
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:33 am (UTC)Affleck as Spock? Hmmmm, probably not. Scotty maybe? ;P
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:36 am (UTC)Funny image, though, isn't it? I don't know, it should be interesting to see who they come up with...
(You wanted a while ago to see a good picture of Ivanova. *Points to icon* It took me forever to get it to work, but there it is.)
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:42 am (UTC)And yeah, I was thinking of other things he's been in, but when I thought of Dogma, it works.
Can Sean Bean play Spock please? They could dye his hair and he would be sooooo great. I know he could do it.
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Date: 2006-09-08 12:13 am (UTC)I thought the franchise got away from itself with the three other series that followed so I'm looking for something to spark it again. I would love for it to go back to the exploration roots the orginal and Next Gen did so well, with a liberated human race doing all it can to better itself. I think it has a shot, too, if it's played straight since the original Star Trek is parody of itself, now. Great acting and direction can do a lot to revive it.
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:34 am (UTC)You're very right about the potential in this new movie, especially about how the original series is a parody of itself now. I really can't wait to see what they can do to bring it back to life!
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Date: 2006-09-09 04:12 pm (UTC)As far as actors, I honestly hope they get someone unknown for both Kirk and Spock. If it's going to be really young versions of them (like Wes Crusher's age in TNG), then they should be younger than Matt Damon. I can't think of anyone offhand, but just someone new would make it interesting, I think.
I'm a big DS9 fan myself. I grew up with the original series, hated the first couple seasons of TNG but grew to love it later, and I thought Voyager had a lot of potential but never really realized most of it...but DS9 was the one that really did the most with the whole idea. It could have been lame, and in a lot of ways, it should have been lame, but it turned out really well.
Anyway, yeah...the new movie definitely has me interested.