Simon Pegg to play Scotty In New Trek

[Dark Jimbo]

He played a yank in Band of Brothers.

[TordelBack]

And Pegg/Angel in Hot Fuzz is a brilliantly realised character - simultaneously loathesome and yet utterly sympathetic. It's a better suggestion that the last one I heard, the Doctor off of SG: Atlantis.

[Buddy]

So... your suggestions for Kirk & McCoy....

[Richmond Clements]

Kirk is an actor I've never heard of.

Link: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=21234" target="_blank">Here you go.

[the shutdown man]

I always liked the suggestion of Gary Sinise for McCoy, but since it seems they're aiming for such a younger cast, I doubt that's gonna happen.

[satchmo]

They seem to be going for geek friendly casting, what with Simon Pegg and Sylar doing Spock. Panderers! :)
I've got a hardcore Trekkie mate who has washed his hands of this film affair, but he loves Spaced. Maybe this news might change his mind a bit?
I had heard James McAvoy was going to be Scotty.

[jabish]

I had heard that James McAvoy was doing it as well. It was printed in an Irish newspaper that he had signed on. Pity. He would've been great. Did a couple of days on atonement with him last year, great actor and really nice guy.

[TordelBack]

What was that noise?  It sounded like a name being dropped!

[jabish]

And very heavily too :-) They cut me lines from the film so I may as well get something out of it! (apart from the long spent money of course!)

[Buddy]

Also... what Enterprise designs are they going for... traditional original series or rebooted Enterprise series.

It ticked me off when they re did the design for Enterprise so I'm all for the 60's version.

[monty--]

I want bright red banisters and flashing lights with no point!

[paulvonscott]

"It ticked me off when they re-did the design for Enterprise so I'm all for the 60's version."

I'm no big Trek fan, but I remember the episode of one of the spin-offs, where the aged Scotty was taken to a 'hologram' version of the old enterprise deck.  Persoanlly I felt a bit embarresssed for him, and was surprised the crew didn't snicker.

Surely what trekkies should hope for is something which is a re-design but captures the spirit of the original, and perhaps even blurs your view of the original one with this.

[opaque]

There is the potential for Scotty to have put on a fake accent once his career got going and he's actually from Gloucester! ;)

[Hoagy]

Slightly off the topic.
I watched TNGNemesis tonight and I thought Data could have done with some serious botoxing.

[vzzbux]

Perhaps they will go for model ships instead of CGI and keep the string showing, for nostalgia sake of course..........and a Blue alien with a pink tongue and red lips.........



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