Is Everyone Cool with the Idea of a Recast for Star Trek XI?

[The Old Mixer]

Re: Is Everyone Cool with the Idea of a Recast for Star Trek

^Actually, Bond aged along with Moneypenny until the point that she was recast. Moore was two years older than Connery, so there was no major discrepency in the aging of the Bond character until they cast Dalton.

 

[Kegek]

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The Old Mixer said:
^Actually, Bond aged along with Moneypenny until the point that she was recast. Moore was two years older than Connery, so there was no major discrepency in the aging of the Bond character until they cast Dalton.

Really?

Then it begs the question: Why was Connery replaced with an actor older than him?

 

[The Old Mixer]

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Because Connery left, and Moore was still youthful enough for the job. (He'd actually been in consideration when they started the series, but at that age was considered too much of a "pretty boy" for the part.)

Moore was definitely showing his age in his last couple of movies. And it's natural to assume Connery was older, because he aged much worse.

Also, there had been thought of replacing Connery with Dalton, who was then around 25 IIRC, and doing the whole "Bond's first adventure" angle way back then.

 

[Kegek]

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I see. This is certainly odd, I've rarely heard of an actor being replaced by an older actor, and that's normally only if that actor is pretty young.

Moore was definitely showing his age in the later Bonds. It's interesting these days the roles are skewing younger and younger... hey, maybe Anton Yelchin will turn his final performance as Chekov before he hits 22, for example.

 

[Spider]

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Haggis and Tatties said:
As long as it performs its major function of entertaining me then I'm all for it.

And that says it all for me.

 

[The Doctor]

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Spider said:

Haggis and Tatties said:
As long as it performs its major function of entertaining me then I'm all for it.

And that says it all for me.

Yep.

I couldn't care less about the designs, the story or this movie's place in 'the canon.' We're getting Kirk, Spock and McCoy on the original Enterprise, that's good enough for me.

Though I would have preferred Matt Damon in the Kirk role and Morgan Freeman as Bones.

 

[jimbtnp2]

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Lieut. Arex said:
The problem with the Superman Returns analogy is that it is a reboot, directly contradicting the end of Superman II. Superman apparently tells the President he won't be gone again... then promptly leaves for Krypton. For years.

Regardless of Abrams' proclamations, ST-XI is going to be a reboot, likely retroactively tying the original continuity to the Modern Trek's altered version. By the very nature of the project, it's almost unavoidable, hell, almost necessary for the future of the franchise as CBS/Paramount sees it. As such, I'm totally indifferent to it. Recast it, change the ship, whatever. It may be enjoyable in the way a Trek novel or comic might be, but it won't speak to the original, in the same way the TOS-R project doesn't. The original's done and in four DVD cases on my shelf and I'm fine with that.

um SR is a sequel to SM II - that was the intention and its clear

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

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"Superman Returns" tried to be a remake, a reboot, and a sequel... all at the same time. That is one of its many flaws.

 

[cooleddie74]

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True. I liked it and still do, but the new Superman movie tried to be a sequel to the first two Reeve movies while at the same time changing the look of everything in Metropolis to look more "modern" and gothic the way Tim Burton's Gotham City in the earlier BATMAN films redefined the way mass media saw that universe. Only with SUPERMAN it's hard to swallow that the new movie is directly and canonically tied to SUPERMANs I and II. No mentions of Otis...Ms. Tessmacher...General Zod. Zilch.