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Difficulties of Casting Shatner in "Star Trek"Posted: December 18th, 2007 by WorstPreviews.com Staff
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Roberto Orci, co-writer of director JJ Abrams' highly anticipated "Star Trek" movie, told Sci Fi Wire that there's still a possibility that William Shatner may appear in the movie. However, that's less of a possibility than before, since the film is currently in production.
"There are two things," said Orci. "One, from our point of view, we are still hoping to find a way. Secondly, one of the difficulties that was brought up and discussed with Shatner when we all met him and pitched him ideas is that Trek fans are sticklers for their canon. [And,] unfortunately, Shatner's Capt. Kirk was killed in Star Trek VII [1994's Generations]."
There was no such problem bringing back Shatner's co-star, Leonard Nimoy, as an older Spock, joining a cast of new actors to inhabit the roles of the Star Trek crew. But Kirk's death complicates the matter of bringing Shatner back, said Orci.
"The difficulty there is not just ignoring that or explaining it in an unsatisfactory way merely to get him back in," he added. "So that is the struggle: the rigors of canon and not phoning it in just to have a cameo."
Still, it could happen, Orci atested. "From my point of view, it's a very long shoot, and things change. It's just whether we can figure it out."
Another possible problem: The ongoing writers' strike prohibits members of the Writers Guild of America - which includes Orci - from making any changes to the script until the strike is settled.
Click here to read more about "Star Trek."
Source: Sci Fi Wire
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Metafact writes:
on December 18th, 2007 at 10:16:19 PM
Okay, seriously, enough already. There have been about a dozen stories about how Shatner is upset that he's not in the new Star Trek, and the writers did everything they could, and the strike makes things difficult, blah, blah, blah. Can we report some REAL news regarding this movie now, please?
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hoopcom writes:
on December 19th, 2007 at 1:23:31 AM
A sure fire way of adding Shatner without taking away from Kirk's death would be to have him as a holographic image of Kirk just like the doctor on Deep Space Nine. Then Kirk could give up loads of space travel knowledge and help during fight situations.
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