Leonard Nimoy to Play Spock in Next Star Trek Movie

mcgrew writes "The AP is reporting that Leonard Nimoy will 'don his famous pointy ears again' in the next Star Trek movie, due out Christmas of next year. From the article: 'He greeted the crowd with a Vulcan salute. Nimoy was joined by the newly named young Spock, "Heroes" star Zachary Quinto [Sylar], who bears an uncanny resemblance to Nimoy. Both Spocks were introduced by the film's director and co-producer, J.J. Abrams.'"

Illogical

[nokilli]

Sensors indicate the phenomena is a form of information reference, however, scanners are unable to ascertain just what that information may be.

Spock, have you tried using Google News to find a link to the story that doesn't require registration? :::raises eyebrow not to convey fascination, but annoyance:::

Doh! The message is coming on the viewscreen [guardian.co.uk] now Captain.

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His one scene.

[Anonymous Coward]

He'll be sitting in a rocking chair on his porch, playing his Vulcan lyre and stopping only to yell at kids for walking on his lawn.

Quinto was 2nd choice

[TrippTDF]

The first was Gary Coleman.

"Wha'chu livin' long and prospern' about, kirk?"

Seriously

[Corpuscavernosa]

Kirk: What's that smell?

Spock: That smell is eminating from my adult diaper into which I've recently and uncontrollably evacuated my bowels.

Re:The need for money outweighs the need for digni

[Anonymous Coward]

Ain't gonna happen. It's Star-trek college days.

It's gonna be animal house meet's star trek and it's gonna end with an interglactic kegger.

Basically lots of green bare breasts, Spock will discover his date is really only 14, and Kirk will be screaming for a road trip while they talk scotty into letting them use his brothers shuttlecraft.

It will all come together at the end when the group crashes the awards ceremony in the "death shuttle" with Kirk dressed as a pirate, sulu in buttless chaps hitting on all the men, and the ceremony ending in disaster.

Re:Quinto was 2nd choice

[conspirator57]

Nothing good can come of this.

What about Scotty?

[EveryNickIsTaken]

I'm certainly hoping he does not get replaced by Welshie.

Re:The need for money outweighs the need for digni

[edwardpickman]

That's been Shatner's motto for decades.

Nimoy had better watch out

[shrubya]

Quinto will come to the inescapably logical conclusion that the best way to enact his part with a truly Nimoy-esque Spock character is to go psycho hack saw on Nimoy and EAT HIS BRAIN.

<homer> Mmm, brains... </homer>

Re:So, What's It Gonna Be?

[dctoastman]

Flashbacks of time traveling. :D

Re:Hooray?

[Ford Prefect]

Somebody wake me up when they start making Firefly movies.

Start? They've already stopped!

Re:Illogical

[Anonymous Coward]

Jesus, fanfic sucks these days. What happened to the badly-written "slash"-type affairs between Kirk and Spock?

Sulu, right

[markov_chain]

They should hire that old Asian dude from Heroes to play Sulu's dad

Re:Where *is* Spock these days?

[kidcharles]

Maybe we should search for him...

That's a shame

[niceone]

That's a shame, because he's been wanting to play Kirk for quite a while now.

Re:Another Trek film?

[Goofy73]

It's life, Jim, but not as we know
Not as we know it,
Not as we know it,
It's life, Jim, but not as we know
Not as we know it....

Re:Bringing out my inner nerd...

[Myopic]

I wish it wasn't cool to be a curmudgeon.

Oh yeah? Well I wish it *weren't* cool to misuse the subjunctive mood.

Re:The need for money outweighs the need for digni

[Stele]

Bare breasts, AND they're green? SIGN ME UP!

Re:Quinto was 2nd choice

[Anonymous Coward]

He's got a pocket full of pressed milk curd and a garden full of arborous flora.

Re:So, What's It Gonna Be?

[Minwee]

The Flashbacks are just a result of having a little too much LDS in college.

Re:wondering

[Captain Splendid]

Which is probably why the later seasons had a lot of Data episodes.

It probably had more to do with having a lazy-writer-saving super-smart super-strong character laying around.

WRITER #1: Fuck, I am officially out of ideas.
WRITER #2: Easy. Shit happens, Data figures a way out with his super-brain.
WRITER #1: Naw, we did that last week, remember?
WRITER #2: Ok then. Shit happens, and Data saves the day because he's super-strong.
WRITER #1: Excellent! Let's go get some hookers and blow!

Re:So, What's It Gonna Be?

[Anonymous Coward]

"The Flashbacks are just a result of having a little too much LDS in college."

Wait...Kirk and Spock were interplanetary Mormon missionaries?!?

Please, no more movie spoilers!

Re:Sulu, right

[gjbivin]

Yes, there is a certain resemblance...

Re:The need for money outweighs the need for digni

[raehl]

That's been Shatner's motto for decades.

Not quite.

The ... need ... for ... money ... outweighs .. the ... need ... for ... dignity!

There you go. It's not true Shatner unless it's overacted.

what is sadder?

[sizzzzlerz]

Members of a rock band from the 60's or 70's playing country fairs or in Branson or a aging actor replaying a role he did 40 years ago on a cheesy TV show.

Re:The need for money outweighs the need for digni

[Mattintosh]

Now all that's left is for Captain Kirk to yell "DENNY CRANE!" as he tackles a pissed off alien and beats the hell out of it.

Re:Quinto was 2nd choice

[scopius]

My first choice was Ben Affleck, with Matt Damon as Capt. Kirk, Jay as Bones, and Silent Bob as Chekov. Hopefully they will let Kevin Smith make a Star Trek movie soon so that I can see this before I die.

Re:Sulu, right

[GalionTheElf]

Is this some kind of joke I'm not getting? That is George Takei.

Re:The need for money outweighs the need for digni

[Killjoy_NL]

Or fucks it, which is more likely when you look at the Denny Crane and Kirk personalities :)

Re:Bringing out my inner nerd...

[E++99]

And sometimes, just sometimes, something can be successful BECAUSE it's good.

That's true, but it doesn't hold for the instances highlighted (Lost and Alias, although your mileage may vary), so I don't get the relevance of your comment. ...
Or is the meaning of "curmudgeon" in the 21st century "someone who doesn't share my tastes in pop culture, and must therefore be a sourpuss about said culture in general?"

What??? Maybe most statements about art are matters of opinion, but Lost is mathematically provable to be the best TV show in history:

1. The first season, and possibly the entire series, revolves round an integer sequence (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 -- and possibly 108). I say, again, the show revolves around an integer series.
   
2. There's a monster that's apparently made out of smoke, but sounds mechanical, that smashes people against trees, and possibly scans people's brains.
   
3. There are vintage computers hidden in underground chambers, and instruction films narrated by a guy with a missing hand to instruct you on how to use them.
   
4. Many of the characters are meaningfully named after philosophers (John Locke, [Danielle] Rousseau, and [Desmond] David Hume).
   
5. It's full of references to great literature, and models its story and themes on numerous great works. If you notice what books characters are reading, or especially the books they actually mention, you can see parallels that reinforce, or perhaps inspire, the themes of the story.
   
6. The characters are amazing, with the diversity of personality and outlook that you would expect from a random cross section of people thrown together. It draws its inspiration for this from Steven King's The Stand. Cinematography and acting are likewise amazing.
   
7. They sailed past the remains of an ancient giant statue. Only the foot remained, but the foot only had four toes.
   
8. Corpses have a way of disappearing, and then seeming to appear to people as if alive. Disembodied voices are sometimes heard in the jungle.
   
9. For unknown reasons, it is nearly impossible to find the island without an island-based beacon to follow. Similarly, sailing away from the island in an arbitrary fixed direction, seems to bring you back full circle. While magnetic anomalies are established to be present, fans tend to suspect relativistic disturbances to be involved.
   
10. A dude unintentionally traveled back in time in his own consciousness as a result of imploding the hatch that covered the geological electromagnetic anomaly (which for some reason turned the sky purple). An antarctic research team was apparently waiting for this electromagnetic disturbance, and detected it; they turned out to be sent there by said dude's girl, who he's desperately trying to return to (whose name is Penelope, a la The Odyssey).
    
11. It's chock full 'o hot babes.
    

Q.E.D.

Re:Let it Die Already

[corbettw]

Yeah, but you know what they did have? Carriage returns.

Re:Sulu, right

[tcc3]

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I predict a subplot involving Spock, Viagra...

[Octopus]

...and an unscheduled Pon'far, which gives him a stroke. He will end up in a wacky wheelchair like Pike for most of the movie.

Nimoy is notoriously lazy like that.

*BOOOP*

*BOOOOOP*

Re:Photo of one Zach Quinto - yes, very Nimoy-like

[AmiAthena]

Ooh, he's cute! Kind of looks like the love child of Leonard Nimoy and Tom Cruise. Interesting.