Chris Hemsworth is [NOT!] Sarek

[Cranston]

IESB is reporting that Australian actor Chris Hemsworth has been cast as Sarek:

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3685&Itemid=99


[EDIT:

[IESB has since corrected their report, and now say that Hemsworth is playing Kirk's dad.]

 

[Rat Boy]

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Report also confirms that Jennifer Morrison is in the film, maybe as Carol Marcus and that the character is in the script.

 

[CorporalClegg]

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No idea who he is.

 

[ralph]

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Opps, sorry, guys.

The girl in photo is Jennifer Morrison even.

 

[DeafPoet]

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No idea who this guy is, but from his pic at IESB he looks close enough. The coolest part of that article is the Jennifer Morrison/Carol Marcus stuff, IMO.

 

[Cranston]

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CorporalClegg said:
No idea who he is.

Me either. I see that most of the YouTube clips of him have the word "shirtless" in the title.

Not exactly how I think of Sarek....

 

[Rat Boy]

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Cranston said:

CorporalClegg said:
No idea who he is.

Me either. I see that most of the YouTube clips of him have the word "shirtless" in the title.

Not exactly how I think of Sarek....

Hey, he had to have some quality to sweep Amanda off her feet, didn't he?

 

[Dark Gilligan]

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Cranston said:
Not exactly how I think of Sarek....

Maybe that's how Amanda thinks of him on those hot Vulcan nights...

 

[Cranston]

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Dark Gilligan said:

Cranston said:
Not exactly how I think of Sarek....

But maybe that's how Amanda thinks of him...

OK, let's just say then that it adds a ... previously unexplored dimension to the character.

 

[Franklin]

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He's 24. This is the first time I've thought WTF about a casting choice.

This movie must be all over the place in time.

 

[Nerys Myk]

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I echo your WTF.

 

[Orac Zen]

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Cranston said:
... previously unexplored dimension [...]

Not necessarily...

I've never heard of this Hemsworth bloke. Along with the Ryder casting (which I'm...not a fan of), I'm really hoping Sarek and Amanda have a very limited presence in this movie.

 

[Cranston]

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Nerys Myk said:
I echo your WTF.

I'll see your WTF and raise you a "Whuh???"

 

[TK421]

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I'm getting the impression that this is the life of Spock kind of a film, kind of like the first Superman movie.

 

[JacksonArcher]

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Chris Hemsworth is NOT Sarek, but actually Kirk's father.

So...he's younger than Chris Pine, and he's playing his father.

Right.

 

[Cranston]

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JacksonArcher said:
Chris Hemsworth is NOT Sarek, but actually Kirk's father.

So...he's younger than Chris Pine, and he's playing his father.

Right.

Merciful God in Heaven above!

That seems like a much better fit. Probably a flashback / scene set during Kirk's childhood.

This really does seem to be shaping up as a real origin story, at least in scope.

 

[Lumen]

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Does fanon/canon have anything to say about Kirk's father other than him dying?

 

[Cranston]

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Lumen said:
Does fanon/canon have anything to say about Kirk's father other than him dying?

There was an '80s novel called "Final Frontier" (Diane Duane?) that had George Samuel Kirk, Sr. as a protagonist, serving aboard ... wait for it ... the USS Enterprise under Capt. Robert April

Other than that, I don't know.

 

[Rat Boy]

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Lumen said:
Does fanon/canon have anything to say about Kirk's father other than him dying?

Tada!

 

[Frodo Lives]

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Oh please, God no.

I'm not much of a Home and Away fan (soap that Hemsworth was in for a couple years), but usually when there's been nothing else on TV I'll watch it for a bit (Please don't judge me) and every time he came on screen I wanted to throw things. He CANNOT act.

Yeah, he does bear a slight resemblance to Pine, and could maybe pass as his dad - as long as he keeps his mouth SHUT.

This is the only piece of casting I've seriously questioned as well. Everyone else has been top notch.

I'll reiterate everyone else's sentiments - WHAT THE FUCK?!