Sean Connery as Sybok
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Yeah, Kirk would have to put Sybok into some elaborate trap that Sybok can escape from. The villains even did that to Connery in Indiana Jones (tying him in a chair next to Indy instead of just killing them).
Kirk: Since the brig probably isn't enough to hold you Sybok, we're tying you to the warp core. Since you set the Enterprise on a fixed course past the Great Barrier, the warp core will overheat once it passes the barrier along with you. The only way we'll let you go is for you to tell Scotty how to undo the sabotage you did to the Enterprise.
Sybok: Do you expect me to talk?
Kirk: No Mr. Sybok, I expect you to fry.
I think Luckinbill killed it as Sybok, and created one of the most compelling guest performances in the entire film franchise (not saying a ton...but still). So as much as I LOVE Connery, I'm glad that things went the way they did.
I agree 100%. Last Crusade is one of my favorite movies period...and I wouldn't change a thing with it.
I agree 100%. Last Crusade is one of my favorite movies period...and I wouldn't change a thing with it.
I read somewhere that Shatner turned down ILM because they offered him their B (or some other letter) team instead of A team, not knowing that ILM just named their teams by letter back then and that the letter didn't represent the team's capability or lack of.
It was their 'D' team. Haven't heard that last bit before before always assumed it was to do with the quality (as of Ralph Winters comments about the tests they gave the FX studios for the ending saying ILMs was silly and they would've had their D team as they were all booked up with Indy, Ghostbusters 2, BTTF2 and Abyss). But if Shatner could've had proper ILM all along instead of Bran Flakes Ferren be quite funny (and sad) if true.
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Maybe it was for the best, we don't actually know if Shatner and Connery would have gotten along. I heard Connery got into some pretty vicious rows with the Bond people back in the day. And his last film, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, was infamous for the fights Connery had with the director, Stephen Norrington.
Now it's possible Norrington and the Bond people were entirely at fault and Connery had every legitimate reason to be angry at them, although I remember Connery was still trashing Norrington during marketing of League, saying he should be institutionalized or something, which isn't really professional (if Connery felt Norrington had done something illegal, why doesn't he take it up with the proper channels--although Ray Fisher from Justice League is currently trying to get his grievances with Joss Whedon handled through those channels now and it seems a long process so perhaps Connery didn't want to bother).
But it's a possibility when you bring 2 infamously strong willed and often uncompromising figures like Shatner and Connery together, things can either go brilliantly or very, very wrong.
Now it's possible Norrington and the Bond people were entirely at fault and Connery had every legitimate reason to be angry at them, although I remember Connery was still trashing Norrington during marketing of League, saying he should be institutionalized or something, which isn't really professional (if Connery felt Norrington had done something illegal, why doesn't he take it up with the proper channels--although Ray Fisher from Justice League is currently trying to get his grievances with Joss Whedon handled through those channels now and it seems a long process so perhaps Connery didn't want to bother).
But it's a possibility when you bring 2 infamously strong willed and often uncompromising figures like Shatner and Connery together, things can either go brilliantly or very, very wrong.
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yeah , he was in Zardoz and Outland and Highlander. I don't think he was opposed to nerdy movies
True, and reading any making of books like Shatners daughters book or The Making of the Trek Films, TFF was hardly plain sailing.. I could imagine the dosnt suffer fools gladly Connery becoming enraged on location when various stuff wasn't working right (and maybe the script not being up to scratch) ..imagine the more diplomatic Nimoy having to step in to diffuse any arguing between Shatner and Connery with Spock like cadence! .. Luckinbill on the other hand mustve just felt 'lucky' to be there
(then again maybe Connery was a closest trekkie and been just happy to be in Trek and in awe of Shatner and unable to believe he was sharing scenes with the actual Kirk & Spock!
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I'm not even sure Nimoy was feeling diplomatic at the time... To quote Luckinbill:True, and reading any making of books like Shatners daughters book or The Making of the Trek Films, TFF was hardly plain sailing.. I could imagine the dosnt suffer fools gladly Connery becoming enraged on location when various stuff wasn't working right (and maybe the script not being up to scratch) ..imagine the more diplomatic Nimoy having to step in to diffuse any arguing between Shatner and Connery with Spock like cadence! .. Luckinbill on the other hand mustve just felt 'lucky' to be there
(then again maybe Connery was a closest trekkie and been just happy to be in Trek and unable to believe he was sharing scenes with the actual Kirk & Spock!
Luckinbill: He did not say one word to me for quite a long time, other than “Hello,” because, I found out later, he had really, really pushed hard to have this be a double role, a dual role for him. I don’t know if this is absolutely true. That was the scuttlebutt and I got that from very high up in the food chain of information, that Leonard wanted to play Sybok and play Spock. That would have been a tremendous thing, to do that, but since they weren’t twins, they cast me. I think that Bill wanted a separate actor, and he was right. We were very different people. The best compliment I got was, in the last scenes, 20 or 25 weeks later, Leonard looked at me and said, “You know, you’re terrific in this.” I thought that was a great send-off.
From https://trekmovie.com/2012/05/16/la...oy-nimoy-wanted-to-play-sybok-in-star-trek-v/ . Luckinbill seems to have had a mostly good time with the film and said he was surprised by the poor reception.
Just thinking of all the huge A list stars that were preliminary attached or considered for Trek films.. Eddie Murphy (TVH), Sean Connery, Brando (Soran), Hanks (FC), Arnie (Insurrection), Jude Law (Shinzon), Russel Crowe/Tom Cruise (Nero/Pike ST09), Benicio Del Toro (Khan)
It strikes me as fortunate that they got Michelle Yeoh, who is very much an A-list star, to appear for Discovery.
I was doing some research two weeks ago for something else, and I came across an interview with Luckinbill from about twenty years ago in which he described his film work as terrible, except for Srar Trek V which he said was marvelous and worthwhile. His real love is the theater, and Star Trek V seems to be one of his most fulfilling non-theater roles.
And not a single one was signed.
Nothing against Michelle Yeoh, but on the same level with Brando, Connery and Hanks or Arnie? Not so sure about it...
Are you thinking Western centric or globally? The world doesn't revolve around America. China is the largest country by population. And directors like Zhang Yimou are bigger and more respected than, say, JJ Abrams (who's a fine guy but he himself would say he's done a lot of remakes/sequels than his own movie body of work).