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By GustavoLeao / 07:38, 7 August 2007 / Feature Films
IGN has posted an article claiming that a trusted source confirmed that producer/director J.J. Abrams would like to have an A-list star cameo in his upcoming Star Trek movie. According to the IGN source -- whose scoops have always panned out in the past, according to the site -- Abrams is wooing his MI3 star Tom Cruise to cameo in the new Star Trek in the role of Captain Christopher Pike.
According to IGN, Abrams is said to only be talking to Cruise at this point; that doesn't mean Cruise will actually agree to do it. There was still bad blood between Cruise and Trek studio Paramount some time ago, but in recent months the door was open for a reconciliation. IGN says that a Cruise cameo would be a favor to Abrams and not to Paramount.
Cruise is not opposed to doing cameos in big-name movies, last doing such work in Austin Powers in Goldmember.
Christopher Pike was captain of the starship Enterprise for many years, as the immediate predecessor to later Captain James T. Kirk, and succeeding Captain Robert April. He was played by the late Jeffrey Hunter in the 1964 pilot The Cage.
IGN also reported that Paramount are looking at another A-lister for the role of the villain.
This information is preliminary, of course, and entirely rumor.
The original report can be found here.
UPDATE: Rumor Denied
Arnold Robinson, a publicist for Mr. Cruise, told Trek Movie Report that this story is "not true." The site has also not been able to get any confirmation of the story from any sources.
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Who cares what Cruise is like in the real world?
L. Ron Hubbard, creator of Scientology, is referred to as "Source" by Scientologists, and all of Hubbard's writings are revered as immutable, sacred scriptures -- thus his Church sanctifies lying and racism. A hate-based doctrine is the antithesis of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek.
Why would we knowingly subsidize a viral hate-based agenda? Scientology requires its members to donate hefty portions of their income to the Church. When Cruise makes money from box-office or DVD sales, a nontrivial amount of cash goes to Scientology.
Cruise's next film, Valkyrie, has him in the lead role as the anti-Hitler German army officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. The German government sees this as effectively whitewashing the vocal Scientology belief that psychiatry is a "Nazi pseudoscience" responsible for the WWII holocaust. Von Stauffenberg's eldest son has stated, "[Cruise] should leave my father alone."
Panorama: "Scientology & Me" @ YouTube Part One, Two, Three, and Four.
60 Minutes: The Cult Awareness Network. (YouTube)
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The only difference between [Christianity and Scientology] is truth and deception: One divine revelation, the other a belief/philosophy developed by a man.
If only there were just a conflict of theology.
Scientology is so crooked that even the peace-loving Canadians twice hauled the Church into a court of law, for breach of public trust and libel. One of the convictions resulted in the largest libel award in Canadian history.
In the US, Scientology auditor and chief supervisor Gabriel Williams repeatedly raped a 16 year-old Scientologist who had been ordered to live with Williams while she worked at Scientology's Mountain View organization. Williams allegedly told the girl that his actions were her fault, because she'd been evil in a past life. Williams' subsequent felony convictions for statutory rape and sexual battery required him to register as a sex offender with the State of California. After Williams' conviction, the young girl's family said they had endured death threats, stalking, and other harassment. (NY Post)
American free-speech activist Keith Henson sought political asylum in Canada (which was temporarily granted), because he feared for his safety in US prison after his conviction for public criticism of the Church. Henson was convicted under an obscure clause of California law that forbids "interfering with a religion", a misdemeanor.
The EFF reports, "Henson was not permitted by the judge to offer an explanation of why he was picketing, for example, and one part of the evidence used against him appears to be based on an online joke made on Usenet about actor Tom Cruise and 'cruise missiles.'"
BBC: Inside the Church of Scientology (YouTube)
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Then you have guys like me who have hated the little sissy boy Cruise ever since "Risky Business," and his equally annoying roles in "Top Gun" and "The Firm." I'll also never forgive Cruise for the manner in which he dragged down Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning performance in "Rain Man."
Yeah, he did good for a change in Mission Impossible, but he also had a hand in that stupid MI-2 -- biggest waste of a movie ticket since "Mr. Mike's Mondo Video." He was also in "Eyes Wide Shut," the worst movie I DIDN'T see (thank God for spoilers).
Here's a guy who's been married to three hot babes -- one older, one his age, and one younger -- yet his "lavender" reputation persists. Nuff said.
If you get Cruise for Trek XI, you have an uphill battle with 40-some guys like me, who remember him when and have hated the little wimp for a quarter century.
Notwithstanding, will I go see Trek XI if Cruise is in it? Yes, of course. They could cast Kermit the Frog as Captain Pike and I'd show. And TPTB know it.
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GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show!.... You've turned an enjoyable little job, that I did as a lark for a few years, into a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME! -- William Shatner on Saturday Night Live (1986)
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Cruise can act. That's all I need to know.
And if it's not true, then oh well.
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...this is more a question of ethics, but Star Trek encourages free-thinking while Tom Cruise is doing his best to brainwash America to believe in Scientology (or whatever) and reject any other way of thinking.
Hmm, you mean exactly what Christians have been trying to do for YEARS? Please.. the guy is an actor. Just because he is in a film doesn't mean he is trying to convert the masses a la a Christian missionary. Hell, I love Top Gun but you don't see me begging girls on my street to have silent births do you? C'mon now, grow up.
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