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I take it you didn’t see, oh, The Pianist, or Summer of Sam or Liberty Heights or Bread and Roses or Oxygen or The Thin Red Line or Harrison’s Flowers or The Jacket or…wait, this is Adrien Brody we’re talking about, right? What the heck have you seen him in that makes you only think of him as a goofball with no gravitas???
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I have seen most of those films, and Hollywoodland, and King Kong besides.
I also saw Brody on stage at the Oscars.
Brody just does not have “command presence,” which Spock must have.
I really like Sinise–really I can’t think of a better choice for a young McCoy. As for the rest…I think I’ll withhold judgment. I’ve thought for a while now that Trek needs regular reboots, like they do in the comic book world. Just withhold the essentials, toss out the 40 years of baggage and take a fresh look regularly.
[QUOTE=eleanorigby]
I would think that Spock would be the one that would be hardest to “replace”.
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I disagree—Spock will be the easiest to replace. Practically every actor who’s ever appeared on Star Trek from TNG onwards as a Vulcan has essentially emulated Nimoy’s performance. Tuvok from Voyager may as well have been Spock himself.
[QUOTE=featherlou]
I agree on every point (and also think he would be perfect as Spock) except he is the wrong age to play alongside Damon and Sinise.
Zachary Quinto is dead sexy, man, and I’m not fooling.
ETA: Star Trek: Battlefield Earth? That sounds cool!
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True enough. Not only is he quite a few years younger than them, but he looks it, too. Such lovely skin… Where was I? Oh, yeah. Dangit, now I want my Quinto-Spock. With younger actors (or at least younger looking) he could probably pull it off, but he’d look like a kid compared to Matt Damon and Gary Sinise, even if he’s only thirty to Damon’s 36. He is closer to the age I’d expected them for this film, though. Not Academy aged (pleasegodno) but just pre-show.
Dangit. Now that I have Quinto in my head I’m trying to cast the movie around him instead of dealing with the actual rumors about casting.
[QUOTE=anyrose]
Then he shows up 80+ years later in TNG on his last legs - so the character would have been about 185
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He was 203 when he died of Bendii syndrome, a degenerative neurological disease which ISTR Picard saying “affects mainly Vulcan men over 200 years old.”
That’s according to Wikipedia. I’m not saying your math is wrong (or Wikipedia’s, for that matter); I blame Trek canon.
[QUOTE=Seven]
Matt Damon might pull it off. He did such a great job in Team America.
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I, too, have a great respect for Brad Pitt as an actor. I think he will take home an Academy Award some day, probably after his looks fade a little more and he starts getting taken more seriously.
I had thought of Purefoy as Spock, but dismissed him as “too old” for this particular movie. I know Sinise is over 50, but Bones is supposed to be quite bit older than Kirk, right? How their ages compare to Spock’s, I couldn’t say.
Livingston is a great suggestion for Spock … I totally missed him. He’s only a few years younger than Purefoy, but looks a good 5-10 years younger on screen. Livingston seems to me to have the right look … great eyebrows
If they were looking to go really young, I think Shia LaBouef (Holes, Transformers) has the right look for Spock. Whether or not he has (or needs) the gravitas and chops, I’m not sure.
If they were looking to go really young, I think Shia LaBouef (Holes, Transformers) has the right look for Spock. Whether or not he has (or needs) the gravitas and chops, I’m not sure.
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I dunno, he’s maybe a little too pretty.
I’d choose Jonathon Schaech. He’s got the dark intensity, strong nose and striking jaw.
Gary Sinise is 52 years old. DeForest Kelley was only 46 when he began playing McCoy.
