There are two distinct camps forming about the new Star Trek move – one camp is looking forward to it and the other camp thinks that the world needs an eleventh Star Trek movie like it needs to be dismembered by an angry hooker.
As for hecklerspray, we're yet to decide on where we stand on the new Star Trek film. Yes, it's going to be an opportunistic prequel to a franchise that should have been put out to pasture 40 years ago directed by the man behind Lost – a show that's basically a confusing love story between a bald man and some smoke – but the Star Trek casting will make or break it. For instance, it's strongly rumoured that that the actor playing Spock in the new Star Trek movie will be that bloke from Heroes. No, not the cool Japanese one. Or the mind-reading policeman. Or Invisible Dr Who. Or the boring Indian. Or the heroin-addict painter. Or the wimpy one with the crap hair.
The baddie. Sylar. Zachary Quinto, who plays Sylar in Heroes, will be Spock in the new Star Trek movie. Bet you're glad you read all that nonsense before we told you, aren't you.
It takes a brave man to want to make a prequel movie to the Star Trek saga. Ten movie, countless TV shows and more off-putting Star Trek memorabilia auctions than you can wiggle a tribble at have left an unstoppably mighty legacy to counter. The makers of the new Star Trek movie took a big gamble when they decided to recast the beloved characters from the original Star Trek series like the gay one, the one that pisses out crystals whenever he wants and the one who died and then got stuck up a hill.
But JJ Abrams, director of the Star Trek movie, is a fearless man. It was JJ Abrams who invented Lost – the show where five minutes of plot gets padded out with six years of flashback and interminable scenes of fat people looking mournfully out to sea. It was JJ Abrams who directed Mission: Impossible III even though he knew that all women hated Tom Cruise and people would rather bludgeon themselves with a breezeblock than watch two hours of him twatting around. And now it's JJ Abrams who has decided that the role of Spock in the new Star Trek film will be played by Zachary Quinto, the man who can chop people's heads open with his eyes in Heroes. E! Online reports:
Zachary Quinto's chances of being Spock in the upcoming Star Trek film are looking extremely good. I hear the deal is about to close. Best. Casting. Ever… I checked with a source who confirms that the Zachary Quinto-as-Spock contract is with the business affairs team at Paramount. Business affairs is generally considered the last stop on the deal-negotiation train. The deal only awaits sign-off from outside counsel. Squee.
That's all well and good, but Zachary who? Well, apart from playing Sylar in Heroes – which finally gets shown on BBC2 tonight for the three remaining people who haven't downloaded it already – Zachary Quinto also played a whiny CTU guy in the quite-good third season of 24. And he was in one episode of Lizzie McGuire. No doubt the combination of being able to turn toasters into liquid from Heroes, sort of vaguely being in the background not doing much from 24 and being in awful children's TV shows that make us want to pull off our own skin from Lizzie McGuire will really help Zachary Quinto nail the personification of an emotionless pointy-eared alien in the new Star Trek film.
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