Rise of Skywalker cast on Trek

[Greg Cox]

Indeed. Locking in an actor to one role pretty much is the height of absurdity to me.

Actors play different roles over the course of their careers. That's kinda how it works.

Just staying on STAR WARS, I wasn't distracted or confused when Alec Guiness and Peter Cushing showed up in the original movie back in '77.

"Wait! Why is Doctor Frankenstein running the Death Star?"

 

[fireproof78]

"Wait! Why is Doctor Frankenstein running the Death Star?"

That explains why he screamed "It's alive! Alive!" after firing the Death Star.

 

[DarthTimon]

The Trek vs Wars rivalry is silly. They're not rival sports teams or political parties. Why shouldn't they share talent, offscreen and off?

Heck, back in the day, STAR TREK, BATMAN, TWILIGHT ZONE, and THE OUTER LIMITS frequently employed the same actors, writers, directors, etc, and nobody thought anything of it. People working in show business at any given time are naturally going to jump from project to project and job to job. That's just how it works.

Staying OT: I'd love to see Daisy Ridley do STAR TREK, or Zachary Quinto do STAR WARS, or any other permutation.

I can see no reason why we shouldn't want to see actors do different franchises. It would be awesome. I also think most people are more than capable of separating the actor from the character. Otherwise, I'd believe Star Lord was working at Jurassic World, when we all know Owen Grady is moonlighting as a Guardian of the Galaxy...

Don't tell my wife this, but Adam Driver is a fine actor, and Star Trek would be privileged to have him.

As for the 'rivalry', some fans, on either side, take it waaaaaaaay too far. Others - most in fact - realise you can comfortably be fans of both. I have a Star Trek tattoo and a Star Wars-based username for everything.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Don't tell my wife this, but Adam Driver is a fine actor, and Star Trek would be privileged to have him.

He'd make an excellent Romulan.

 

[Malaika]

I think nowadays actors are a tad more privileged in that they don't get 'trapped' into one role the way the tos actors maybe were for example. And audiences not only are fine seeing their fav actors in multiple franchises, they actually WANT to see them play different characters.

Don't tell my wife this, but Adam Driver is a fine actor, and Star Trek would be privileged to have him.

Tell your wife that Adam Driver probably is the best actor of the new star wars trilogy (while in trek it's Quinto for me. And he got the harder character to play too). Though, both casts are quite good overall as all stars play their own character pretty well with what they are given.

As for the 'rivalry', some fans, on either side, take it waaaaaaaay too far. Others - most in fact - realise you can comfortably be fans of both.

That's me . I love both star trek and wars. I think those who see a rivalry maybe don't know them both very well because they are different and in no way mutually exclusive. Trek is about an utopian future, wars is a space opera about a dystopian past/present. Their purposes are different but both made an incredible contribution establishing the 'space' genre.

 

[Greg Cox]

As for the 'rivalry', some fans, on either side, take it waaaaaaaay too far. Others - most in fact - realise you can comfortably be fans of both. I have a Star Trek tattoo and a Star Wars-based username for everything.

At the moment, I'm sipping coffee from a STAR TREK mug with a STAR WARS fleece blanket over my legs, while listening to the soundtrack of CONAN THE BARBARIAN.

Infinite fandom in infinite genres!

 

[fireproof78]

Infinite fandom in infinite genres!

IFIG?

Isn't that a cookie?

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

At the moment, I'm sipping coffee from a STAR TREK mug with a STAR WARS fleece blanket over my legs, while listening to the soundtrack of CONAN THE BARBARIAN.

Infinite fandom in infinite genres!

Traitor!!!!

I'm with you!

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Hell yeah, there's a few Star Wars actors I'd love to see in Trek! Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Ian McDiarmid (would probably make a great psycho admiral or stoic Vulcan)... heck, I'd be happy to see anybody from Rise of Skywalker in a Trek flick!

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Indeed. Locking in an actor to one role pretty much is the height of absurdity to me.

Yes, this is called typecasting, and it was the bane of the TOS cast (and many others).

 

[CorporalClegg]

No.

Frannie McDermott playing Minnesotans is typecasting. Low-tier actors not finding work after their cult TV series ends is tough luck.

 

[Lance]

It really puzzles me when people get so inflexible about actors. "Oh, I can't watch Patrick Sewart in anything, because all I can see is him playing Picard". Then dude, it's you, not Sir Pat, who is to blame for that. He's an actor. Actors act. They change roles, they appear in other franchises. That they become synonymous with a particular franchise or part doesn't bind them to it for life, any more than being a builder by trade means you can't be an artist, or something. People have life choices. If you can't imagine Daisy Ridley in Star Trek, then you're a very inflexible person.

Someone above said Mark Hamill is stereotyped as Luke Skywalker and if he appeared in Star Trek all they'd be able to see is Luke, implying that all Hamill can be is Luke Skywalker. But what did Hamill do? He became the voice of The Joker and proved everybody that he could break stereotyping. Because he's an actor, and actors don't just play one role.

 

[thribs]

I just see Bullock now when Stewart is on screen.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Mark Hamill was typecast as Luke Skywalker for decades (for years, he wouldn't have anything to do with SW -- he wouldn't go to cons, he wouldn't sign merchandise, etc.).

It's only been in recent years that he's gotten back into the fandom.

Which is why he was probably more than glad to see the back of Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi. But that doesn't mean that he can't be seen as other sci-fi characters (an admiral in a Star Trek movie would be great casting for him much as being the Joker was.)

 

[thribs]

Which is funny as I see him more as the Joker now than Luke.

 

[M'Sharak]

[ ... ] Because he's an actor, and actors don't just play one role.

They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...

There's really no reason why one actor cannot play roles in different franchises.

Or multiple roles within the same franchise, as far as that goes.

I've seen guest actors (Jon Lormer in TOS, e.g.) appearing in more than one episode (as different characters) being given as a reason for having trouble watching something, but it shouldn't be. Part of the "suspension of disbelief" contract between storyteller and audience is that you focus on what it is the characters are doing in the context of the story currently being told. Any similarities between its players or tropes to other stories or performances don't at that moment matter.

 

[somebuddyX]

I think it'd be fun and it'd be cool to try new things with them. John Boyega was great as a thug in Attack the Block and Oscar Isaac wasn't a great Apocalypse in X-Men but his acting was good.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I think it'd be fun and it'd be cool to try new things with them. John Boyega was great as a thug in Attack the Block and Oscar Isaac wasn't a great Apocalypse in X-Men but his acting was good.

Isaac was great in Ex Machina.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

I may have said this before and have forgotten so I will say it again.

jj loved star wars more. fine.

when he did the force awakens, he should have left star wars and done star trek beyond, now he leaves star wars In ruins, why trek is still okay and no where near as damaged as star wars.

How did he leave Star Wars in ruins, pray tell? Because he didn't adapt any of the EU books? Or is it something else more purity related?

 

[M'Sharak]

How did he leave Star Wars in ruins, pray tell? Because he didn't adapt any of the EU books?

As I already pointed out here ten days ago, this is off-topic for this thread and for this forum. If they belong anywhere, those would be questions to be asked in the Star Wars subforum. Not here.

Or is it something else more purity related?

Also, I know you know better than to pull up older posts in order to take pokes at other posters. Please work harder on that.