FYI, I could see Fillion as McKenzie Calhoun... in fact, I think he'd be the PERFECT Calhoun... but not so much as Kirk.
I know who Kirk's gonna be!!!
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Maybe imdb is lying about his age? At 31, he's ONE year older than Quinto. Ah hell, slap some makeup on the guy, he'll look young enough.
They can't go for a Kirk much younger than 25 or so, now that they have a thirty-year-old playing Spock, who is supposed to be a couple years older than Kirk but he's also a Vulcan, and that should make him look younger compared with a human of comparable age. All things considered, I think they're locked into getting a Kirk of around 30.
Geezus, the poor guy doesn't look 40! 
Actually in two of those photos, he looks more like Jeffrey Hunter. Top centre and top right, for those interested. It's the steel blue eyes... whereas Shatner has the more warmer brown.Temis the Vorta said:
Contact lenses should solve that problem, but I have no issue with Kirk suddenly having baby blues!
Oh Paul Rudd! THAT guy, I didn't know his name. He's the "how I know you're gay"/video store exhibitionist guy to me.
Yeah I guess he could be Kirk. Kinda, I dunno - squishy.
But that's the sort of thing you can't really tell. He's always been in squishy roles, what if he had more of a hard-charging leadership-type character? Maybe he could surprise us.Sure is cute, isn't he?
Now here's the irony, he's SEVEN years older than Eion Bailey. Grandpa!
But this is actually a pretty good idea. Rudd isn't a massive movie star, so he'd do TV probably, and he's done TV shows, but he's also recognizable to fans of Judd Apatow. He'd bring in a different fandom from the people who'd come in thru Trek or Heroes.
The crypto-Godzilla remake? Is he the new Greg Grunberg?
It wasn't my idea originally - someone here (still here?) saw that picture of him from that Stephen King anthology last (?) summer, the one based on HP Lovecraft (which is upper middle in my little montage), and alerted us all to his resemblance to Shatner, which wasn't as obvious in BofB, when he was wearing a helmet and covered in mud all the time. But I jumped on the idea pretty quickly as my favorite.
Speaking of BofB, let's not forget Ron Livingston. That series of his is toast, he's got plenty of time. He's not as good a match for Kirk, but close enough I'd say.
Livingston is Gary Mitchell... I mean, just imagine Ron Livingston playing Gary Lockwood's scenes from WNMHGB... he's a near-perfect match, at least IMHO.Temis the Vorta said:
It wasn't my idea originally - someone here (still here?) saw that picture of him from that Stephen King anthology last (?) summer, the one based on HP Lovecraft (which is upper middle in my little montage), and alerted us all to his resemblance to Shatner, which wasn't as obvious in BofB, when he was wearing a helmet and covered in mud all the time. But I jumped on the idea pretty quickly as my favorite.
Speaking of BofB, let's not forget Ron Livingston. That series of his is toast, he's got plenty of time. He's not as good a match for Kirk, but close enough I'd say.
You seriously can't see Kirk in that picture on the top right?
P.S. Shouldn't the title be "I know who's gonna be Kirk!!!"?
ChristopherPike said:
Actually in two of those photos, he looks more like Jeffrey Hunter. Top centre and top right, for those interested. It's the steel blue eyes... whereas Shatner has the more warmer brown.Temis the Vorta said:
In the bottom left picture, he looks like Christopher McDonald as Enterprise C's Richard Castillo.
Bottom left is pretty weird, the way he's squinting. He also appears to be wearing lavender lipstick. I dunno what that was from, maybe some historical epic about the Amish?
I dunno what that was from, maybe some historical epic about the Amish?
