Lots of Thirteen Days alumni showing up in Trek, it seems! 
Bruce Greenwood is the new Pike!!!
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Excellent casting choice. I love Bruce Greenwood.
Count me in the 'Never would have thought of him, but I think he's superbly cast' camp. Not a bad lookalike for Hunter and defintely has the authority for the role. And he's reasonably well known but not so much as to overshadow the others.
I also think it's cool that an actor who played JFK is playing a captain of the Enterprise, given ST's 1960s origins and the apparent similarities between the late President and Captain Kirk and the influence of the JFK-inspired space race on Trek. Coincidentally, his 13 Days onscreen brother Steven Culp was supposed to be Picard's new XO in NEM and played Major Hayes in ENT.
I also think it's cool that an actor who played JFK is playing a captain of the Enterprise, given ST's 1960s origins and the apparent similarities between the late President and Captain Kirk and the influence of the JFK-inspired space race on Trek. Coincidentally, his 13 Days onscreen brother Steven Culp was supposed to be Picard's new XO in NEM and played Major Hayes in ENT.
Not convinced by the physical resemblance at all. He's the right age range certainly but my money was always on Ray Liotta (along with every else who voted in that ST.com poll).
If he's only onscreen for a minute or two, then I guess he's a cheaper option and it matters little who's Pike. I'm hoping Greenwood's one of those chameleon type actors given a few Jeffrey Hunter films to study... Bruce should get his complimentary DVD of The Cage and copies of The Searchers (1956) and The Frogmen (1951). Judging by his performance in Thirteen Days, he specialises in mimicry. Pike was a tortured soul with a short fuse... He should take it from there.
If he's only onscreen for a minute or two, then I guess he's a cheaper option and it matters little who's Pike. I'm hoping Greenwood's one of those chameleon type actors given a few Jeffrey Hunter films to study... Bruce should get his complimentary DVD of The Cage and copies of The Searchers (1956) and The Frogmen (1951). Judging by his performance in Thirteen Days, he specialises in mimicry. Pike was a tortured soul with a short fuse... He should take it from there.
He's too old but he's a good choice.
He wasn't really a physical match for JFK either, but he and Stephen Culp stole the show from Kevin Costner in Thirteen Days.
Very good news.
Good solid choice.
As far as age goes, Hunter had just turned 38 when "The Cage" was filmed in 1964. They have 11 years, four months, and five days to play with in Spock's time serving with Pike (of course, some of that pre-Cage).
So, Greenwood's age can (and probably will) make good sense to the story. Also, Greenwood is a young looking 51 -- that is, he can easily pass for mid-40s.
As far as age goes, Hunter had just turned 38 when "The Cage" was filmed in 1964. They have 11 years, four months, and five days to play with in Spock's time serving with Pike (of course, some of that pre-Cage).
So, Greenwood's age can (and probably will) make good sense to the story. Also, Greenwood is a young looking 51 -- that is, he can easily pass for mid-40s.
Darnit it Maxwell Everett! I was just about to say, "Come on! You know the rules. 
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Great pic! :thumbsup:
What's with this, "He's too OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!"
Remember, the movie isn't set during Kirk's Academy, oops sorry "Starfleet Academy 90210" days.
"Great pic! :thumbsup:
What's with this, "He's too OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!"
Remember, the movie isn't set during Kirk's Academy, oops sorry "Starfleet Academy 90210" days.
That's exciting news. Bruce Greenwood is one of my favorite actors.
Anyone see him as a WWII submarine captain in Below? Good movie and he's great in it.
Anyone see him as a WWII submarine captain in Below? Good movie and he's great in it.
not a physical match at all. does he have blue eyes? Jeff Hunter was a hunk, a pretty boy. Greenwood is decidedly not.
excellent actor, though, and he's got charisma. methinks he'd be the right age for Pike for the era they might be filming.
and finally we've got 'nother Canadian as the Captain of the Enterprise! woo-hoo! the Canucks must be happy...
excellent actor, though, and he's got charisma. methinks he'd be the right age for Pike for the era they might be filming.
and finally we've got 'nother Canadian as the Captain of the Enterprise! woo-hoo! the Canucks must be happy...
Holytomato said:
Darnit it Maxwell Everett! I was just about to say, "Come on! You know the rules.
Great pic! :thumbsup:
What's with this, "He's too OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!"
Remember, the movie isn't set during Kirk's Academy, oops sorry "Starfleet Academy 90210" days.
During the period we saw Pike in TOS--11 years before "The Menagerie"--Pike appeared to be a man in his mid-thirties, late thirties at the oldest. By the time he was confined to the boop-boopmobile, he would still have been younger than this guy and Kirk was a full captain at that point. (The dialogue of the episode makes this worse when Commodore Mendez refers to Pike as being "about your age, Jim" which would make him no older than 40 while he was in the wheelchair. I think we can safely ignore that for this discussion.)
So any Pike who is visibly older than his early forties in a film showing a pre-TOS Kirk and Spock is too old. He may still do a fine job and it's hardly a deal-breaker (not for me, at least; the creative team may be but that's a different insult-filled discussion), just a statement of apparent fact.
Franklin does make a good point, though, and they might be able to make it look as if Pike is a good five or six years younger than Greenwood. If I could accept Shatner and Nimoy et al. in 1979 as being only 2 1/2 years older than they were in 1969, I can handle a 51-year-old Greenwood as a, say, 43-year-old Pike .
Why don't we just ask Captain Pike if he thinks Bruce Greenwood is a good choice?
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