Yeah I know, I just saw the story out in the wild and posted it to this thread. Not that I believed it for a second.
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... and apparently, They chose to put it on the wrong end of the pig.
Yeah that's a fair point. I never really found him convincing as a Picard clone, with no resemblance at all except being bald, and I think seeing Patrick Stewart playing against himself, and playing evil would have been compelling. So from the first time I saw the film I wondered what it might have been like had they done it that way.
But as you said the writing and direction were bad and that probably wouldn't have saved it. Which is sad because ultimately I think it could have been an excellent film. I kind of like the ideas, just not the execution.
And that baldness was unintentional. The Nemesis script describes Shinzon as having "long flowing blond hair." But Tom Hardy had to shave his head for another movie he finished filming not long before Nemesis began and since he didn't have time to grow long flowing hair or dye it blond, they decided to keep him bald.
The movie didn't seem to know how to address the similarity of lack thereof between Patrick Stewart and Tom Hardy. Picard and Shinzon's early conversation in the Romulan Senate Shinzon explains why he looks so different than Picard did at a younger age with thing like a broken jaw and whatever from hardships of life as a slave in a mining camp, but then later in the movie Picard pulls out a picture of himself as a cadet looking exactly like Shinzon.
I didn't know that he was intended to have long hair. I think I would have liked that.
The photograph was particularly jarring considering we had seen Picard with hair in Tapestry and Violations.
Shaving a head could well be a thing...you know, like people do now.
Perhaps. They also get fillers injected into their lips which would explain Shinzon/young Picard's much larger lips. Picard was apparently the shorn-headed Lisa Rinna of Starfleet as a cadet.
They could have quite easily, yes. But, oddly, nobody ever thought of it. One more example of how half-assed that movie was.
All the kids were doing it.
I saw a random Facebook story that Michael Dorn made a cryptic tweet about being called back by Starfleet.
Could mean nothing. Or something awesome.
Could mean nothing. Or something awesome.
https://trekmovie.com/2021/04/19/co...t-return-isnt-for-a-paramount-star-trek-show/
It’s likely not for TV or film, in any case. I’m guessing either Star Trek Online or something similar.
It’s likely not for TV or film, in any case. I’m guessing either Star Trek Online or something similar.
Having done this for about 5 years in my early 20's before growing it back, and with my hair thinning to a point I'll soonish be doing it again, I laugh at people calling Bald Shinzon/Cadet Picard a continuity error.
Like do you understand how hair works. It's reshooting "Caretaker" because Janeway let her hair down all over again.
I didn't say it was a continuity error, I just think it was surprising. When I went from hair well past my shoulders to a buzz cut, my coworkers found it jarring. And seeing a young Picard bald for the first time was likewise surprising.
I chuckled.
I doubt it is STO, he hasn't been back because he wasn't happy with how the game treated Worf and Alexander.
Turned out to be a mobile game.
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