Bruce Greenwood is the new Pike!!!

[Rat Boy]

JacksonArcher said:
I guess the only other main roles yet to be cast are Spock's parents, no?

Jerry Stiller and Estelle Harris. You heard it here first!

 

[Dale]

If Pike was going to go to a Canadian named Bruce, they should have considerd McCullough... IMHO.

 

[DarthPipes]

Never saw Thirteen Days although I remember enjoying Nowhere Man quite a bit.

 

[Kryton]

Guess I'm the only one who remembers him from St. Elsewhere in the early '80s. I like him. Good choice! :thumbsup:

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

DarthPipes said:
Never saw Thirteen Days

Do. It's awesome. Even though Kevin Costner is in it (with the *worst* attempt at an accent I have ever heard).

 

[Aragorn]

Will Steven Culp show up as Pike's brother Madden Hayes?

With all the worship of Naked Mandy on this board, no one's brought up Greenwood in Exotica, where Naked Mandy actually gets naked? And Captain Pike gets into a fight with Casey Jones?

 

[Cranston]

Brutal Strudel said:

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 .

Not sure I agree with your reasoning here. A lot depends on when we actually see Pike -- is it an "early Spock" segment, sometime many years before TOS? Or is it more or less around the time that Kirk takes command? If it's the latter, then Pike would be 11 years older than in "The Cage"; when "The Cage" was filmed, Hunter was 38, so 11 years later he would have been 49. The difference between 49 and 51 is trivial, seems to me.

But I agree that Greenwood could easily and convincingly play anything from mid-40s and up.

As for the casting, I think Greenwood's an awesome choice. The thing that's most worried me about Pine's casting as Kirk is the question of whether he can convey authority as, well, authoritatively as Shatner did. With Greenwood there's absolutely no doubt, and his presence makes me feel much more comfortable with the entire thing. In fact, I don't care which Starfleet captain he's playing. Just the fact that he is lends the whole thing credibility.

 

[Cranston]

Procutus said:

Now if we could only get someone cast as Gary Mitchell in this film, but it doesn't seem that his character is going to appear.

Yeah, that's disappointing. For a while, when Karl Urban's name was floating around, I had hopes. Seems a better fit than Bones....

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Grandpa! He's 20 years older than anyone else in the movie.

 

[C.E. Evans]

To me, Greenwood is a surprising choice to play Pike, but having seen him play so many different roles in the past though, I think he'll be great. He ain't no Jeffrey Hunter, tha's fer sure, but I think he'll make the role his own.

 

[Franklin]

Brutal Strudel said:
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 .

Another thing to bear about Greenwood being 51 is all he has to do is carry off playing a character seven to nine years younger than him this one time. It's not a long term casting decision. It's not likely we'll see Pike on the big screen ever again.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Another good point.

 

[Avilos]

Kryton said:
Guess I'm the only one who remembers him from St. Elsewhere in the early '80s. I like him. Good choice! :thumbsup:

I remember! Not from the original airings but when TVland reran the show in the late 90s.

 

[pookha]

this pose reminds me of pike

and yeah i can see an older pike here.

 

[Mallory]

I met Bruce Greenwood when Nowhere Man filmed an episode in our office complex and his trailer was parked directly outside my floor to ceiling windows. Great show and Bruce is a quality guy. And I like his casting as Pike.

 

[TK421]

Eh. Not great.

 

[Kokomo]

Samuel T. Cogley said:
Why don't we just ask Captain Pike if he thinks Bruce Greenwood is a good choice?

That thing actually works! I asked him like, ten questions

 

[Akiraprise]

Were they all no answers? Because my Pike was a negative Nellie.

 

[Emher]

Great casting I have to say, Greenwood is one my favorite character actors.

 

[Stardate]

my money was always on Ray Liotta (along with every else who voted in that ST.com poll).

well i didn't vote for Liotta and quite frankly ST.com sucks and Trek BBS rules

Greenwood is a good actor and he will do a good job as Fleet-Captain Pike and i presume giving Kirk his command of the Enterprise. Dont forget Kirk only meet him once prior to Menagerie