News They can't use stuff from ANY Trek movie!

[Destructor]

Oh my God, I hope season 2 of Discovery reveals this is the Starfleet anthem, and the crew sing it together.

Ha ha ha! We can but dream...

 

[Mudd]

To me, its not a problem, but an amazing lightning-strikes-twice epic coincidence of talent, that we would be lucky to get to watch.



Its really beyond an impersonation.... he captures the whole essence; as an actor, that is talent.

Seriously? No.

 

[Galaxy]

Oh my God, I hope season 2 of Discovery reveals this is the Starfleet anthem, and the crew sing it together.

I can imagine Michael, Spock, and Saru singing this together.

 

[Phoenix219]

Seriously? No.

Have you ever seen any of his work? Not the Youtube videos..... Age of Adaline? Voice acting for Tell tale Joker? He's extremely talented.

 

[cultcross]

Acting a character isn't about impersonating the last guy who did it. When you are cast as Macbeth on screen, you don't impersonate Michael Fassbender because he did it last, you play the character. Same with James Bond. The character of Han Solo is not the same as Harrison Ford. Or at least, it shouldn't be, if Ford himself was worth anything as an actor and Lucas etc as writers. Doing an impression is not the same as acting a part. This is luckily something the JJTrek casting people understood, and it appears from the trailer the same is true of the Solo movie.

 

[Phoenix219]

If you capture the look, the voice, the charisma and the heart, how is that NOT a fantastic feat, and the absolutely best way to recast? Agree to disagree.....well, I just plain disagree... :P

 

[cultcross]

If you capture the look, the voice, the charisma and the heart, how is that NOT a fantastic feat, and the absolutely best way to recast? Agree to disagree.....well, I just plain disagree... :P

It's a great talent for impressions, but impressions aren't acting. New stories put characters in new situations, with new dialogue and interactions with new characters. Your performance needs to address that new story, not be a copy of what went before. It's part of what makes a new show or film new as opposed to just nostalgia. When Daniel Craig goes on set to play Bond, he isn't doing a Connery impersonation, he's playing the character. Even when you don't recast, this is true - Ford in The Force Awakens isn't doing a copy of his acting from Empire, he is playing the character in a new situation.

 

[Mudd]

Acting a character isn't about impersonating the last guy who did it. When you are cast as Macbeth on screen, you don't impersonate Michael Fassbender because he did it last, you play the character.

Exactly so.

It's a great talent for impressions, but impressions aren't acting. New stories put characters in new situations, with new dialogue and interactions with new characters. Your performance needs to address that new story, not be a copy of what went before.

It is almost intrinsic to dedicated fandom that fans love a thing exactly the way it has been, in every detail and including, not despite, its shortcomings. Ticket sales for half the major league baseball franchises for the last century illustrate this perfectly. That was less problematic when the past was permitted to remain in the past; our age's appetite for regurgitating and reconsuming (ick) the macaroni and cheese of our childhoods has made it much more so.