If we’re going by character, not by looks, I’d cast
Matthew McConaughey as Kirk - reckless, goodlooking, rascal.
John Malkovich* as Spock - cool, calculating, aloof
Keifer Sutherland as McCoy - good natured, emotional, down to earth
*Yeah, yeah, he’s 54. Big deal.
Well, wasn’t Spock supposed to be, like, 100 years old during TOS?
I’m gonna go ot on a limb and say because you never auditioned for them… 
Only read half the thread but I can see the trend towards the majority of the fans staying away from this movie in droves. I reserve judgement until I learn more about the plot
Not that I think it matters much, but Adrien Brody’s father is Jewish, as was his maternal grandmother, though his mother is Catholic. So, he’s ethnically Jewish, at the very least.
As I think he’s an excellent actor and find him quite handsome in a Nimoy-esque sort of way, I think Brody would probably be the best bet for Spock of any recognizable name out there. I’m not too sure on Damon as Kirk, though. If I got to make the casting decisions, though, I’d say choosing actors who aren’t yet well known would be the best way to go.
Perhaps 30? His human mother, Amanda was 50 or at the most 60.
^ :dubious: ^
I’ll stick by my long-standing assertion; just about any sci-fi on the big screen (or little screen) is better than no sci-fi.
I think the casting is interesting, and I think Gary Sinise will be brilliant, because he owns any screen he’s on. Actually, Gary Sinise is more of a likeable “everyman” - he might have been better cast as Kirk. I’ll wait and see how he does irascible.
Brody as Spock? Eh. I’ll wait to see about that, too.
Damon as Kirk? I don’t think that will totally suck. He has a certain amount of charm.
Well, apparently, Shatner will be in this film as well. Word is that “Old Kirk” will give advice to “Young Kirk” at some point in the plot. Of course, they could do something totally stoopid and have it being Old Kirk telling his great-grandkids about his adventures when he was Young Kirk.
What’s the art direction going to look like? If it’s pre-TOS, then having uber-sexy stuff (let’s face it, the iPhone is cooler than Kirk’s communicator) is going to make the TOS episodes look funny (If they had touchscreens, why’d they go to those big clunky buttons?), if it’s post-TOS TV, then it might work, unless it’s fancier than everything that comes after.
We’ll get less of Blade Runner and Serenity-type movies/TV shows and more Battlefield Earth and A Sound of Thunder-type ones.
(See, scifi is like sex, you can say that even bad sex is better than no sex, but when toothless starts eye humping you, you sing a different tune.;))
That would indeed be “stoopid”, since we all know that he’s dead.
So it will work in a methane atmosphere where touch screens fail. ^ :dubious: ^
The Iphone will not communicate with a spacecraft traveling faster than light, BTW.
Not that I’ve tried it, not being able to afford one.
Agreed. You could buy Nimoy stepping in to take command of the Enterprise as necessary. Brody? I don’t think so. He just seems like a goofball. No gravitas.
I like Damon’s work. I have no problem seeing him take a stab at playing Kirk.
Actors I could maybe see as Spock: Kevin McKidd, James Purefoy, Guy Pierce, Ron Livingston, and yes, even Ben Affleck (I really don’t get all the Affleck-hate out there in the internet echo chamber. I think he does fine work. In Hollywoodland, for example. And Og knows Affleck and Damon have some chemistry as friends.)
Count me in as another who finds Brody to be odd-looking, in a bad way, and an overrated actor besides. I’m stunned that they chose him to portray Spock.
(correction mine - sheesh, cp, get it right :))Actually, that’s going to be the new feature in the iPhone 4.0 (they’re saving it til then to give the physics and aeronautics folks a chance to work out the logistics of FTL travel)
Now that’s an interesting idea. He does have that rascally charm the role requires. So does Russell Crowe, come to think of it.
Crowe might be getting a little long in the tooth for the role, though (43).
Time delineation causes “Caps Shift”, which AT&T hasn’t been able to deal with.
He’d be good at fights. 
And hell, the guy who looks like Deforest Kelley is 51.
It what? That movie totally sucked. :rolleyes:
In my opinion, of course.
The trouble with the original series is that its only redeeming grace over the long haul was the interaction between William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForrest Kelley. It wasn’t the characters that made the show, so much as the actors who played them.
Now, this is both a good and a bad thing. On the good side, it means that someone with talent as a writer could cook up a plot and a screenplay that would actually be exciting and interesting. Such a movie would kick ass, theoretically.
The bad thing is that the names Kirk, Spock and McCoy are so inextricably linked to the way they were played that it simply beggars imagination that anyone would be happy with even a well-done movie using different actors. You might just as well make them be on a different ship with new characters and back stories.
I think Sinise is a brilliant choice to play McCoy. Matt Damon can surprise you. I have no opinion on Adrian Brody.
The important thing is that they get rid of Rick Berman and the other clowns that have ruined the franchise. Put Star Trek in the hands of a good director willing to take a chance with a different direction, and it’s possible that they could come up with something brilliant. Or, it’ll be total crap.
Shit, of course he is. Damon is an excellent, versatile actor, and his credentials are a lot better than Craig’s were before Craig became James Bond.
I think Sam Stone has, as is often the case, gotten past the sizzle and pointed at the steak; what matters is whether or not they’re smart enough to hire a director and a screenwriter who will throw out the crap they’ve been producing for the last ten years and generate a fresh new look.
That article is dated July 1st of this year…three days ago. It’s a Canadian news site, and they put the date before the month. This story from the same site is dated 18-06-07, and I guarantee you it’s not from the sixth day of the 18th month of this year.
I don’t mind the casting, but I’m disappointed it’s going to be another Kirk-era prequel story. I think what the franchise needs is fresh characters in a fresh setting, in a time after Voyager’s return to Earth (i.e. later than any time period we’ve already seen depicted).
God, I hate these stupid board requirements.
Amen, Brother.