Winona Ryder is Amanda

[Holytomato]

What!? No pic of Winona as Amanda yet!?

Oh, come on you know the...

 

[Barbados Slim]

Reading Winona's IMDb trivia page has resparked my long-standing crush on her. She's supercute and craaazzzyyy!! She's suffered from depression, afraid of water, had to drop out of a movie because she couldn't get out of bed, too shy to do Leno and is an insomniac.

She's nuts and it drives me wild!

 

[MattJC]

Borgminister said:


Who's that guy playing Iron Man again?

Well with Tom Cruise and Russel Crowe being rumored to be part of this movie and Winona Ryder confirmed to be part of it, I thought I'd make a joke about Abrams' judge of character.

 

[steveman]

Well, this came out of left field. Should be interesting to see where this goes. I think this bit of casting goes in the same vein as Simon Pegg's casting as Scotty -- not necessarily good or bad, but very interesting.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I like Winona and am quite okay with this casting decision.

 

[xanderwess]

I just read on YahooNews that she IS a Vulcan! What? How can Spock be a halfbreed if he's 100% vulcan? And why the hell would I be one of the first people to see this?

 

[Orac Zen]

As someone who's never been particularly impressed by Ms. Ryder's acting - and who counts "Journey to Babel" and Jane Wyatt's performance therein as one of my favourites in Trek - I have to say this piece of casting news is quite a letdown. Hopefully it'll be a "blink and I'll miss it" role. To each their own, however.

 

[Outpost4]

xanderwess said:
I just read on YahooNews that she IS a Vulcan! What? How can Spock be a halfbreed if he's 100% vulcan? And why the hell would I be one of the first people to see this?

They don't know what they're talking about. Amanda is clearly human. No amount of reboot could ever change that.

 

[Therin of Andor]

xanderwess said:
I just read on YahooNews that she IS a Vulcan! What? How can Spock be a halfbreed if he's 100% vulcan? And why the hell would I be one of the first people to see this?

Most of us gloss over obvious typos.

 

[MattJC]

I'll be a bit fair now and say at least they didn't cast Wynona Judd.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Cmndr J Crichton said:
People are gonna say, Winona Ryder is in Star Trek? I have to see that. Fans who haven't seen her in years, and might've missed A Scanner Darkly would like to see her. This movie is going to be huge.

Bigger than "Alien: Resurrection"?!?!

 

[CaptainDonovin]

So anyone pissed she is playing the Vulcan moter of Spock?

here's the linky for that news:

http://www.eonline.com/news/article/inde...=rss_topstories

 

[Cary L. Brown]

Ya wanna know who I think she is? (Which would mean that we don't see her and Quinto together at all...)

I think she's T'Pring!

Just because Spock hasn't seen her since she was a young-un doesn't mean that she can't be in the flick!

 

[Kegek]

CaptainDonovin said:
So anyone pissed she is playing the Vulcan moter of Spock?

I'm dubious. If she was the Vulcan mother of Spock, why would she have a name like Amanda Grayson? The article in question quotes more internet posters than it does Hollywood personalities.

 

[KantPanik]

I found the following on Yahoo's Entertainment page.....

Variety reports the erstwhile Heathers star will play the Vulcan mother of the Starfleet logician, sending Trekkers into a tizzy. Abrams is messing with a key element of the Star Trek canon: In all previous installments of the franchise, Spock's mother was human, not Vulcan (the pointy ears come courtesy of his father's side of the family).

Wait......what?

 

[KantPanik]

This only show Variety is clueless.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

KantPanik said:
This only show Variety is clueless.

Agreed!

The people at Variety probably don't even know that Spock's blood type is T negative.

DUMBASSES!!!

 

[Rat Boy]

Hello, mama!

 

[ITL]

I like Winona. She can act, and she's yummy. Glad she's onboard.

 

[Arlo]

Variety didn't print a typo. They are using a term lifted from European royalty.
"...the Vulcan mother" means "the mother of the Vulcan", the same way Queen Elizabeth's mother's title was "The Queen Mother"*.

Variety owes me a donut now

* or as Sammy Davis, Jr. called it, "half a word".