Simon Pegg to play Scotty In New Trek

[Radbacker]

this is sounding better and better.

CU radbacker

[Peter Wolf]

 
  I want warp drive now Scotty !

  I cannae do that captain ! She is overheating and  she cannae teke nae maurer  !

[the shutdown man]

They also have their Sulu, it's the guy who played Harold in Harold and Kumar (which I happily have not seen)

But this is all shaping up very nicely, now we just need the right Kirk and McCoy.....

[Dudley]

Is there anyone out there wooden enough to play Kirk?

[Satanist]

Heres a radical thought, why not hire a Scotsman to play Scotty instead of some actor doing an offensively bad comedy accent. Or failing that Groundskeeper Willy.

Hoots Mon, ra dylathium christuls cannae tak any merr captan!

[pauljholden]

Yeah, and get a Vulcan for Spock - I've had it up to here with american actors playing aliens - where are the proper alien races, eh?. Proper Vulcan's can't even get into the actors union. Those alienists.

-pj

[Richmond Clements]

Yer man Sylar is playing Spock.

[Leigh S]

Erm... Wasnt Doohan Canadian?

[TordelBack]

Too right.  Greenface might have been acceptable in the 60's, but we've moved on.  There are so few good leading roles for alien actors these days, it's a shame to fill them with humes in paint and CGI monstrosities.  As long as aliens aren't allowed play themselves, crass stereotypes will persist.  Jar Jar alone set back the cause of alien acceptance in Holywood by decades.

[Buddy]

Aren't these actors a bit old to be playing Kirk and chums in the academy (if it is the academy years).

These guys are about the age Shatner was when he was making the first series.

Anyways, Simon Pegg in anything is good news. He's turning into a right wee hollywood star.

No chance of a Spaced special anytime soon then.

[pauljholden]

Course Leanord Nimoy has since distanced himself from the whole 'Alienist' issue - and is pretty ashamed of that 'greenface' period of his life. The book 'I AM NOT SPOCK' really was a searing indictment of that time in Hollywood where aliens were really only considered good enough for background artists roles.

The other problem though, really unmentioned in Nimoy's book was that Aliens were always cast as negative in light of the glowingly perfect humans, unless, of course, the alien was subservient to the human as Spock was.

I think it's a period we can all agree was just wrong, and it's surprising that it's still seen as a stigma to be an alien in Hollywood.

[Dudley]

Never mind - there will always be a role for the alien as the hero's sidekick, with their funny alien way of talking and their special alien way of helping the hero relax and look cool.

It's the only explanation for Chris Tucker's entire career.

[Goaty]

Eric Bana as the villain... sounds good!

[Funt Solo]

Just the slight problem that Simon Pegg never plays anything other than Simon Pegg.  This could be his first acting role.

[pauljholden]

Not sure I agree with you - sure, there's a certain Peggyness to each of his roles, but Pegg played noticbly types of character in each of his roles (Pegg in spaced is NOT the same Pegg in Hot Fuzz)

- pj