Maybe they're implying that Sulu is a badguy, since he's in the B&W quadrant like Nero is in the first poster.
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Maybe they're implying that Sulu is a badguy, since he's in the B&W quadrant like Nero is in the first poster.
Do they even have a royalty schedule to compensate actors for having their faces CGI'd onto the heads of other actors? Paramount probably doesn't want to be the guinea pig for what the copyright lawyers will do with that field. "Let FOX or Miramax take the hit for that one," I can hear them saying. "We'll get in after they've got their noses bloodied."
Paramount owns the "likenesses" of most Star Trek actors, and the actors themselves see no money from anything with their likeness on it, like the action figures or PEZ dispensers. CGIing their faces into a movie should be no different -- Paramount owns the right to use their likenesses that way.
Yeah, because CGing faces onto actors whose body type and mannerisms don't match wouldn't be nearly as distracting as having actors who aren't exact clones of the ones we're used to.
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I didn't say it was a good idea.
I didn't say it was a good idea.
It comes down to whatever was in the original contracts. It seems unlikely, but I could be wrong, that William Shatner signed a contract in 1966 that addressed the specific issue of whether they could CGI his face onto some kid's body 42 years later.
This isn't about what is or is not distracting. This is about what is right. As determined by the ultimate arbiters. Us.
I figured you were being tongue-in-cheek^^^
I didn't say it was a good idea.
Our Federation lawyer I'm less sure about.
Keep an eye on him. He's shifty.
Perhaps his eyes would be less shifty with the shade of a sombrero during siesta.
Looks good, but he isn't white enough.I wish they had given pegg a more original scotty haircut, I know it doesn't have to be that way and no I haven't seen the movie to say it isn't at some point but I did a photoshop test here...
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That's a, what, season 1 Scotty haircut? Pegg is more like a season 3, as shown earlier in this thread. But, really, it doesn't matter -- it's not like a haircut will fool us into thinking that Pegg is Doohan... nothing will. One just has to accept buy into it. Two different productions of Hamlet will likely have two different actors portraying Hamlet -- so what?
That's a, what, season 1 Scotty haircut? Pegg is more like a season 3, as shown earlier in this thread. But, really, it doesn't matter -- it's not like a haircut will fool us into thinking that Pegg is Doohan... nothing will. One just has to accept buy into it. Two different productions of Hamlet will likely have two different actors portraying Hamlet -- so what?
Ah, but Hamlet is a less subtle and challenging role than "Scotty."
Give it 400 years...
Now that's what I'm talking about! Why didn't somebody among all those make-up artists think of that? Now he does bare more resemblance with the cropped 'fro' hidden...I wish they had given pegg a more original scotty haircut, I know it doesn't have to be that way and no I haven't seen the movie to say it isn't at some point but I did a photoshop test here...
And I don't want to hear any "tiny moustache" jokes from any of yer...
Probably because they want Simon Pegg to look something like Simon Pegg, and aren't particularly concerned that he look like James Doohan.
They evidently had some concern about matching the actors' appearances as evidenced by their casting choices for the “Big Three,” and last time I looked, Quinto wasn’t walking around in everyday life with a Spock cut. Clearly they are applying different standards of authenticity to the second-tier characters.
However, I think Pegg was always a special case casting-wise. I think he was picked more for his rising popularity—especially overseas—and the demographic that comes attached to him than for any particular suitability to the role of Scotty other than ethnic proximity, which is not to say that he wasn't a good choice. I know half a dozen people who are planning to see this movie only because Pegg is in it, and I think he’s a good enough actor to do justice to the role, hairstyle notwithstanding.
