ICV2 reports that Paramount announced at the San Diego Comic Con that Leonard Nimoy has been confirmed to return as Spock for the new Star Trek movie JJ Abrams is working on (scheduled for release in winter 2008). Zachary Quinto from 24 and Heroes will play the younger Mr Spock, with Abrams saying he was trying hard to find a way to have William Shatner included in the movie as well. You know, I think I said before that I was a bit worried by the whole idea of a ‘younger days’ of the original characters story because it is so hard to imagine anyone else in those roles, but this announcement makes me a bit more hopeful.
I’ve still got a poster from an event I worked at when Leonard appeared in Edinburgh to support his autobiography I Am Spock (yes, I did get to meet him, no I didn’t do the Vulcan salute) and the crowd of several hundred fans seemed to cross all age ranges and classes, from excited kids and students, geeks and sober-suited businessmen straight from the office; it demonstrated what I’d always kind of known, that Trek goes well beyond the normal SF circle, embedded in and loved by pop culture. Which seems logical to me.
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September 24th, 2007 at 10:05 am
[...] IVC2 reports that JJ Abrams has cast another role for his upcoming Star Trek movie, set in the early days of the characters from the original series while they were still at Starfleet Academy (as many Trek fans will no doubt know the idea of a series set at the Academy was floated as a successor to Voyager a few years back but Paramount eventually went for Enterprise). Actress Zoe Saldana – who will also be seen in James Cameron’s new film Avatar – has been cast to play the young Uhura, joining Heroes’ Zachary (Sylar) Quinto who will play the younger version of Spock, while the one and only Leonard Nimoy will don the famous pointed ears one more time to play the adult Spock for the film. The original Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, will be appearing in Heroes during the second season, joining her classic Trek colleague George Takei who has already appeared several times as Hiro’s father, along with an appearance from Enterprise’s Dominic Keating. You just can’t keep that Trek legacy down, can you? Not that we’d have it any other way. [...]