On a side note, this headline and the next one are Paramount pictures-related + all the Paramount ads on the site (Stardust, Transformers and Iron Fucking Man!!! that one is not even finished!!!)... I really hope they pay big bucks, because it's an invasion. I miss the Tiger Stripe John Wayne ads...

Anyway, in clicking on links and hopping around, I came across a site called Horror-Movies.ca, which I'd never seen before. At their site they have a story about a guy who posted a quick anecdote/photo on the "Unifiction message board", where he states that he was at some sort of movie warehouse sale/convention thingy and at a table selling movie posters he came across one that had the tag line "Monstrous" at the top and then "1-18-08" at the bottom. The poster itself is a shot of a headless Statue of Liberty looking at NYC.

The odd thing is he took a picture of the poster with his cell phone that's incredibly blurry. So was he just a crappy photographer or is this yet another staged stunt to release more viral marketing, to sort of let you know there's a poster coming, but they won't show it to you clearly yet? You got me. Either way, here's the link for anyone interested. And again, sorry if this is old news...

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But that said, is there really some amazing pent up demand amongst the general public for Shatner-less Kirk and Nimoy-less Spock stories that I'm unaware of? I just don't see it myself. To me, those guys are just TOO iconic in their roles. I just don't see it as recasting a character like Tarzan, for example, where people would be more willing to see a new actor or a new take on things.

Hell, let's be honest. If you were sitting in a theater and a Paramount rep came out and said "Ok, we're now going to show you two trailers, and we want you to tell us which one you prefer"...at which point they showed you a "new Trek" trailer starring Damon (or whoever)/Quinto versus a "classic" Trek trailer that showed Shatner and Nimoy going at it one more time. Seriously, which one do you think audiences would go more ballistic and chest bumping over?

Then again, I am the one who argued in the recent HALLOWEEN talkback that perhaps we just have to view Zombie's take on Mike Meyer's as "this generation's version" and as something they can call all their own -- while we old fogeys will cling to Carpenter's version and will have our DVDs to play whenever we want to see "our" version.

I don't know. I just think that for someone of Abram's caliber, if you wanted to put your feet into TREK waters, why couldn't you just do something ORIGINAL so you'd have a wide open path to do whatever you want?

Then again, since this is a reboot, maybe that IS the way Abrams and Paramount are looking at this and I just stupidly missed that point entirely. Maybe it IS their intention to have a wide open field by saying this will be a TOTAL reboot of the TREK universe, and that anything we've ever seen to date -- TOS, Next Gen, DS9, books, whatever -- are all wiped out now. This truly is Day One in the Trek universe all over again, and NONE of that other stuff ever happened. If that were the case, I'd almost salute Paramount for being THAT ballsy and for rolling the dice THAT much given how much you will piss off alot of fans. Then again, the latest plans call for Nimoy to make a cameo or something, so I guess this has to fit into continuity somehow. After all the years of TREK that there have been, I'm sure this thing is going to collide with something in continuity and some fans will bitch, but I guess we'll just have to see what toes Abrams and crew do ultimately step on.

So assuming we have to accept a new crew, as far as casting goes, I have to say I hate -- I mean HATED -- the idea of Damon. First of all, he's freakin' OLDER than Shatner was when he starred in the show. So what's the point in doing a younger Kirk who's actually older? That's rather fucked up. Besides, Shatner Kirk had WAY more spark and life than fucking Matt Damon has EVER shown onscreen.

So if they're casting the parts younger ala Quinto, then I still vote for Chris Evans at this point, in terms of people that come to mind. He was pretty much the only good thing to come out of the FF movies and was the only one who actually showed some real onscreen spark and personality. The way I saee it, those were fairly crappy and disappointing films and he still rose to the occassion, so plugged into an actual GOOD movie, I think Evans could make for a lively young Kirk, and would make a good pairing with Quinto as I try to picture it in my head.

Oh, and I agree with pretty much everyone in the known universe aboutSinese. Bones is supposed to be the older, wiser friend and he would be dead on perfect...

It's a real problem finding young actors who can carry the mail and do the characters justice. I've seen this Quinto kid in a couple of things; and I could never wait for him to get off the screen. If that is the level of actor populating the cast of this film; it's going to end up looking like a senior class production by the kids from '90210.'

So to answer your question, if they can't find a better 'Spock' than Quinto, it doesn't bode well for casting the rest of the roles. I'd start thinking about a re-write or maybe even scrapping the entire project.

I think this offering from TokyoPop's been around for a while, now, but, I paged through it once at l'bookstore and, you know, a treatment with the actual, original "Star Trek" characters CAN be OK. Everyone from Uhura to Scotty, everyboty was there, facing hyperbolic-not limited to-humanoid-shape forms.

Yes, Manga, but, a real decent treatment. Yes, th' magic o'cadoons (Manga-style) true makes the Enterprise in the REAL boldly goes where camera cannot, you know?!?!? Heh. I was impressed.

I hope they lose their color-coded crew shirts on this enterprise.

Doom to all movies that are not made the way I want them made.