Exactly. I'd prefer the best person for the role over the most famous person who wants the role any day.
Why not a Trek movie with "A" List actors?
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Exactly. I'd prefer the best person for the role over the most famous person who wants the role any day.
...which would have been months old by the time the movie hits theatres. I don't think it would be an issue by then.
Love your avatar, by the way!
And yet Walk Hard was a tremendous amount of fun, and Reilly gave a fantastic performance in Chicago. Huh. Go figure.
How about a cast that has Eric Bana, Winona Ryder, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, maybe a cameo from Tyler Perry, and some promising up and comers like Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, and John Cho.
...Yeah, I went there.
In all seriousness, I don't see the point of a cast saddled with A-Listers. Most of them couldn't pull of the material convincingly, anyway. Imagine Angelina Jolie spouting technobabble. Trek has always been a franchise best suited to people who are set to become A-Listers after they've been on Trek. Kirstie Alley, Ashley Judd, Famke Jansen, Kierten Dunst, etc. I don't see why you'd want to change that and end up ballooning the budget.
...Yeah, I went there.
In all seriousness, I don't see the point of a cast saddled with A-Listers. Most of them couldn't pull of the material convincingly, anyway. Imagine Angelina Jolie spouting technobabble. Trek has always been a franchise best suited to people who are set to become A-Listers after they've been on Trek. Kirstie Alley, Ashley Judd, Famke Jansen, Kierten Dunst, etc. I don't see why you'd want to change that and end up ballooning the budget.
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Yeah, in the new cast, we have some rather well-known names, like Bana, Ryder, and Pegg. Big, but not too big that they overshadow the film.
Personally I hope this never happens. It was bad enough having a lead who many kept comparing unfavourably next to Quantum Leap. With a major Hollywood actor, an uphill struggle against the baggage only increases. When Zachary Quinto got the Spock role, I assumed his look would pull the performance enough away from Heroes... Too soon to say based simply on a split second clip, but watching him in the trailer, I'm less convinced somehow.
Thank you.
In the mid 70s, on the strength of their partnerships in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting", Paul Newman and Robert Redford were being touted for Spock and Kirk in what eventually become ST:TMP.
Roddenberry offered Walter Koenig the chance to play... Chekov's father!
Roddenberry offered Walter Koenig the chance to play... Chekov's father!
They already did a Trek movie with A-List celebs.
It was called Galaxy Quest.
It was called Galaxy Quest.
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Commodore
Kelsey Grammar - "Captain Morgan Bateson"
Samuel L. Jackson - (rival Starfleet captain)
Tom Hanks - (2nd rival Starfleet "Acting Captain")
Michael Biehn - (Jackson's First Officer, formerly a Maquis Lieutenant under Michael Eddington.)
John C. Reilly - (Hank's Chief Engineer / "Acting First Officer")
Gweneth Paltrow - Morgan Bateson's Chief Medical Officer
[Dr.] Samantha Elizabeth Baker-Chapel (Grand-Niece of TOS Character Nurse Chapel.)
Samuel L. Jackson - (rival Starfleet captain)
Tom Hanks - (2nd rival Starfleet "Acting Captain")
Michael Biehn - (Jackson's First Officer, formerly a Maquis Lieutenant under Michael Eddington.)
John C. Reilly - (Hank's Chief Engineer / "Acting First Officer")
Gweneth Paltrow - Morgan Bateson's Chief Medical Officer
[Dr.] Samantha Elizabeth Baker-Chapel (Grand-Niece of TOS Character Nurse Chapel.)
God. Could you imagine if the movies were cast with A-listers? It was already bad enough with Shatner commandeering lines from Koenig, Takei, et al and those douches Stewart and Spiner mucking about in the scripts for Insurrection and Nemesis, but could you imagine if a REAL A-lister got their hands on the script for a Trek flick, making demands that shittify the productions? No thanks.
I'd prefer they keep relative unknowns until they feel they're too big for their britches and decide to provide "creative input" then have some nebulous anomaly kill their character off and replace them with some other douchebag who appreciates being paid exorbitant amounts of money to drone on about technobabble without having to chime in and give their two cents on the script.
I'd prefer they keep relative unknowns until they feel they're too big for their britches and decide to provide "creative input" then have some nebulous anomaly kill their character off and replace them with some other douchebag who appreciates being paid exorbitant amounts of money to drone on about technobabble without having to chime in and give their two cents on the script.
I seem to remember Kelsey Gramer in a captain uniform already. He took out the Enterprise quite a few times with his little Miranda class.
Soyuz class starship. USS Bozeman.
With high profile actors come high profile salaries (Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart did their best to suck the budgets dry for the TNG movies as it is, and they're hardly A-list), and high-profile demands/negotiations etc.
You'd struggle to get Tom Hanks to sign a 3-movie deal, for example. Relative unknowns? Yeah, they'll do it.
Also, you want to be watching the characters, not the actors.
You'd struggle to get Tom Hanks to sign a 3-movie deal, for example. Relative unknowns? Yeah, they'll do it.
Also, you want to be watching the characters, not the actors.
In theory, I don't have a problem with the idea of casting a big name actor for a Trek movie. I don't go to see movies because of what actor is in it, but a lot of people do. You put Tom Hanks as the star of a Trek film and there's some guaranteed box office because of that.
There are other problems, however, especially when you're trying to set up an ensemble cast with some balance. With only one name actor, you'd probably end up with the focus on them. You'd have to cast at least 3 big names, and now we're getting way over budget.
Yeah, and once you start talking about 3 picture deals, the budget goes way out of control, and the special effects start looking like the ones from Star Trek V
There are other problems, however, especially when you're trying to set up an ensemble cast with some balance. With only one name actor, you'd probably end up with the focus on them. You'd have to cast at least 3 big names, and now we're getting way over budget.
Yeah, and once you start talking about 3 picture deals, the budget goes way out of control, and the special effects start looking like the ones from Star Trek V
Is Ashley Judd A-list now? Bring back Robin Leffler! The first Starfleet Captain in a catsuit!
Let me just say this... "Hey, wouldn't it be a neat idea if we took a really popular guy like Richard Pryor and built our next Superman movie around him?"
Yeah, enough said...
Now, granted, the Superman franchise is actually an example of films that managed to take a group of A-list actors and make it work, ala the first film. But somehow I just predict Trek going the Superman III route...
Yeah, enough said...
Now, granted, the Superman franchise is actually an example of films that managed to take a group of A-list actors and make it work, ala the first film. But somehow I just predict Trek going the Superman III route...