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Beam them up stat! Matt Damon, Adrien Brody and Gary Sinise are in talks to play the Big Three in the Star Trek XI movie next year.

Fresh from Oceans 13 and The Departed, Damon is pegged for the role of a young Captain James T. Kirk, previously played by the Shat-tastic William Shatner.

Meanwhile, Oscar winner Brody (King Kong, The Pianist) is slated for the role of Mr. Spock, which was immortalized by Leonard Nimoy, and CSI: New Yorks Sinise could revive the cranky Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (made famous by DeForrest Kelley).

Also, this week Lost creator J.J. Abrams announced he will direct the film.

Source:  http://www.ecanadanow.com/news/entartainment/matt-damon-to-play-captain-kirk-20070701.html

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I'm ambivalent at best. I'm an avid trekkie, but I couldn't bring myself to watch the last film they put out. They're not only beating the dead horse of the franchise, they've already flayed the body to the bones and are now wearing away at them.

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From what I understand, Matt Damon playing Kirk and Adrien Brody playing Spock was just rumor.  I believe that those roles have not officially even been cast yet.  Read more at TrekToday.  From one of the screenwriters, Roberto Orci:

At the Sci-Fi Wire, Orci was asked about casting rumors involving big-name stars such as Matt Damon and Adrien Brody. The screenwriter would only comment with a smile that he'd "read all those rumors, too," but then at the IESB elaborated that the filmmakers might not even want to cast established stars. "[The] star of the movie is Star Trek, you know, so another way to think of it is we feel confident in what the material is and what the paradigm of the movie is that were not trying to shove an Academy Award winner down your throat to sell it. Which doesnt mean that we might not end up there but it's not our first place to go there with that."
J.J. Abrams will direct, however - that being old news by now.  smile  The script is being written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Transformers, M:I3, Xena, Alias).


-- Edited by TitusTodd at 09:15, 2007-07-03

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I don't consider myself a "trekkie" by the way.  I did like the last movie and the last series (most of it) which I guess qualifies me as a non-trekkie.

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NO! Let the franchise die... please... last movie I saw was the one where TNG crew goes back in time... and after that bit of fluff to appease the rabid trekkers and trekkies, I decided the whole thing has jumped the shark once too many times.

While I can see Damon and Sinise physically imitate the roles as younger versions of the characters, they both have way too much work under their belt in other areas for them to be believeable as the character. I don't know who Brody is, never seen his work.

Damon as Kirk: "Four hundred... thirty... people... alldependantupon... my decisions... I swear to ***, if I even feel somebody behind me, there is no measure to how fast and how hard I will bring this fight to your doorstep. I'm on my own side now."

Sinise as McCoy: "D***** Jim! I'm Lt. Dan, not Leonard McCoy!"

I don't care what anyone says, you can not replace the nuances of the characters the original actors created without it becoming a caricature... May as well bring in Leonardo DiCrappio to play Scotty and Brittany Spears to play Nurse Chapel... rolleyes

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Although I moved out of my parent's basement in 1996, the ST franchise still has the power to compel me to watch whatever they put out.

I am simply grateful that nobody is saying the name Wesley Crusher.

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Looking for a hilarious parody with some great lines where the boy is told to shut up, but couldn't find it... instead, I found this, and it is pretty good...

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It won't be the same without the original cast. They should just let it go. The die hard pureists will hate it anyway. I didn't see the last movie either because it looked stupid. I have been catching the re-runs of Enterprise on Sci Fi. I actually like this series better than some of the other Star Treks. It seems more in line with the original premise, to go where no man has gone before. It's almost like seeing it all for the first time again.

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I was all set to be a die-hard purist and hate it. But the idea is growing on me. Enough to be curious, anyway.

What was the last movie everyone's hating or not seeing?

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I forget what it was called, but it was all about Captain Pick-hard fighting a clone that the romulans made of him. Data gets a death scene, from everything I hear.

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Huh. I guess I didn't see it either.

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I didn't bother to see any of the movies after First Contact... I don't even know how many there were after that one...

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