Friday, October 12, 2007

Cho is Sulu, Pegg is Scotty in Star Trek!

ComingSoon.net:

John Cho (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) has been cast as Sulu, the Enterprise's helmsman, while Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) has signed on to play Scotty, the ship's Scottish chief engineer, in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek feature for Paramount.

Already on board are Eric Bana as the villain, Nero, Zoe Saldana as Uhura and Anton Yelchin as a young Chekov, the Russian-born navigator, as well as Zachary Quinto as a young Spock. Leonard Nimoy, who originated the role of Spock, is on board as well. Chris Pine is in talks to play the young Kirk.

The movie is expected to shoot from November-March.

Plot details are begin kept under wraps, but it is understood that the movie chronicles the early days of the Enterprise crew. The lead roles remaining to be cast are Christopher Pike, the first captain of the Enterprise, and Kirk's parents.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hulk smash puny starship!

11:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Simon Pegg is hilarious, but as Scotty? I'm having less & less confidence in this Trek...the only thing keeping me going is that it's JJ Abrams, so keep hoping his plan will actually work, whatever it is...

10:14 AM  

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