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Only Christopher Pike left from the Main Cast then?

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Any rumours on the front runners? What chance he'll be the headliner in the film's cast?

They're looking an older actor compared to those so far. 20 years or more than Chris Pine, since Kirk became the youngest Captain in the fleet. My math is a little rusty but Jeffrey Hunter would've been 39 when they made "The Cage" and it's set 13 years before "The Menagerie" according to a line of dialogue.

I hope they at least get someone with a passing resemblance to Hunter. Based on the debunked Damon/Brody/Sinse rumours, I guess Ray Liotta is pretty much out of the question now. A shame since I doubt Star Trek would be beneath him. He recently did a great TV show called 'Smith' and looked fit enough for action scenes. At 52 his age would certainly be in the right ballpark.
 
I'd think they could take some liberties casting Pike. Probably no one in the "mass audience" has ever seen "The Cage" or even "The Menagerie". Certainly not enough times to remember or care what Jeffrey Hunter's Pike looked like.

It could be the role is not too large, leaving an opening to try as long as possible to get a big name to do a cameo as Pike.
Can't get the big name? Then casting Pike may actually be as easy as drawing from a pool of generic "leader type" actors floating around Hollywood.
Again, it depends a bit on how big the role is.

Pike's age is problematic since the one thing that seems certain about the movie is it moves through time. It could be Spock sometime on Pike's Enterprise. So, a younger Pike. It could be around the time Pike hands Kirk the keys to the Enterprise. Then he'd obviously have to be older.
 
wamdue said:
was it even confirmed he was in the movie?
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According to the latest over on Star Trek.com's main page:
"With the announcement of Karl Urban as McCoy, this completes principal casting for the main bridge crew. Christopher Pike is one of the big parts remaining to be cast."
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ChristopherPike said:
wamdue said:
was it even confirmed he was in the movie?
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According to the latest over on Star Trek.com's main page:
"With the announcement of Karl Urban as McCoy, this completes principal casting for the main bridge crew. Christopher Pike is one of the big parts remaining to be cast."
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I wonder by 'big part' do they merely mean that he's one of the recognisable character names to fans and in whose casting we'll be interested. Or does he actually have a big part in the movie. I hope it's the latter. I've always been interested in this character.
 
ChristopherPike said:
I guess Ray Liotta is pretty much out of the question now. A shame since I doubt Star Trek would be beneath him. He recently did a great TV show called 'Smith' and looked fit enough for action scenes. At 52 his age would certainly be in the right ballpark.
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What? After making Turbulence, Dungeon Siege (Uwe Boll!!!!) and Wild Hogs, of course Star Trek is beneath him! :lol:
 
Neal McDonough with his hair re-darkened would make a superb Pike, and would be a better "fit" than Ray Liotta...

No one's going to mind that he plays a character 100 years later in the universe. Plus, he's a friend of Star Trek: he'd do it I'm sure as a cameo without asking for lots of $. Liotta would cost.
 
Pike and that of Kirk's parents are the only supposed big roles that need to be cast.

Hopefully Abrams can get big names for them.
 
It could be Spock sometime on Pike's Enterprise. So, a younger Pike. It could be around the time Pike hands Kirk the keys to the Enterprise. Then he'd obviously have to be older.
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Of course, both of those ideas are mostly conjecture, not actual Trek pseudohistory.

We know Spock served under Pike for eleven years, but we have no idea how much of that took place aboard the Enterprise. And we know Pike had the ship before Kirk, but we don't know if somebody else had it in between.

Do we have a complete casting list? Or might we yet find out that a supporting role will be given to a character named Captain Smith, the first commander of NCC-1701, and to another named Commodore Jones, the fourth commander who served between Pike and Kirk?

Timo Saloniemi
 
I think the actor who plays pike should look like the LAST actor to play Chris Pike -- Sean Kenney (who also played Mr. DePaul in a couple other TOS episodes).

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Sean_Kenney

He was the ONLY actor to play Pike in an episode that ACTUALLY AIRED in the 1960's or 1970's (except for the archival footage of Hunter from the failed, UNAIRED first pilot - which I say doesn't count. :p)

Therefore I think KENNEY = PIKE.

So, If he doesn't look like Sean Kenney, I will boycott this film. ;)
 
Just as a point of reference... Jeffrey Hunter was 37 when he appeared in "The Cage." "The Menagerie" was set 13 years later, so that suggests Pike would've been around 50 at the time. This movie is probably set a few years earlier, so we'd probably be looking at an actor in his upper 40s or at least someone who can pass as that age.

It's possible, of course, that the scenes with Pike would take place earlier; indications are that the movie jumps around in time. However, according to "The Menagerie," Kirk only met Pike when the latter was promoted to fleet captain (which may well have been when Kirk took over the Big E).
 
qstor said:
Isn't TOS when Kirk got the keys? I can see canon problems already.
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I'm not sure what you mean. Kirk was already in command of the ship as of the second pilot. There was no "origin story" ever depicted onscreen; they just started with the mission in progress (this was the '60s, after all).
 
I have a wild prediction. A black actor will be cast as Pike and probably someone along the lines of Morgan Freeman.

I'm not being sarcastic or ironic. Just watch.

Cheers

Alex
 
23skidoo said:
I have a wild prediction. A black actor will be cast as Pike and probably someone along the lines of Morgan Freeman.

I'm not being sarcastic or ironic. Just watch.
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Not such a wild prediction... though Morgan Freeman may be a little old for Pike... but I don't think a change of race for the Pike character would make many heads explode... and there's an as-yet-unnamed Starfleet captain's role available... maybe that'll go to a woman?
 
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