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Transformers 2 vs. Terminator 4
Essential sci-fi reading list?
Brandon Routh no longer under contarct to play SUPERMAN
Jul 03 | Leading sci-fi website, Totalscifionline.com has teamed up with Star Trek Magazine to find out who is the best villain in Star Trek. Together, they want to know the diabolical masterminds who have sent a shiver down your spine and set your heart pounding and the evil geniuses who make it seem good to e bad. The top Star Trek villain will appear on a special commemorative Star Trek
Magazine cover, to be revealed later this year. Your vote could also win you year's subscription to Star Trek Magazine.For information on how to cast your vote, go here
Jul 02 | Doug Drexler's Drex Files blog psoted a couple of making-of for two images in Pocket Books 2010 Ships of the Line calendar. You can see Greg Stewart's "Operation Return", and "We Come In Peace For All Mankind" by Robert Wilde.
Jul 02 | Company of Angels (CoA), which was co-founded in 1959 by actor Leonard Nimoy, is celebrating its 50th Anniversary as Los Angeles' oldest non profit professional theater now headquartered at the historic Alexandria Hotel in downtown LA. CoA is readying to celebrate this milestone in the history of Los Angeles Theater - with a prestigious Charity Awards Gala slated for October 17, 2009 which will honor actor Leonard Nimoy for his role as a founding member as well as veteran actor Robert Ellenstein. "I'm looking forward to celebrating Company of Angels' 50th Anniversary Award Ceremony and Gala." Nimoy says of this special event in which he is proud to be a part of Check out the official website to learn more about The Company of Angels
Jul 01 | There may be no new Boston Legal episodes, but William Shatner is keeping very busy these days. In addition to his new talk show, Raw Nerve, he took time out to film a new TV spot for Priceline, titled Lighten Up. The clip is viewable on the Priceline Travel Blog
Jun 28 | Eight weeks in, Star Trek still drew audiences in eighth ($3.6 million this weekend, $246.2 million overall).
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By GustavoLeao / 21:21, 9 January 2008 / Feature Films
IGN just posted an exclusive interview with actor Karl Urban, the new Leonard "Bones" McCoy in J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie. Here are few excerpts.
IGN TV: You're going from one iconic character to another with your role in Star Trek. How did that role come about?
Urban: Well it was one that I actively pursued and was very fortunate enough to be offered.
IGN TV: You're obviously a very different physical type than DeForest Kelley. How are you approaching the role?
Urban: Again, it comes down to the script and it comes down to following J.J.'s lead and working in conjunction with this great cast that he's assembled and being faithful and honorable to the very essence and spirit of those characters that were created back in the late '60s. Again, it is a case of not doing some sort of facsimile or carbon copy, but really taking the very essence of what DeForest has done and honoring that and bringing something new to the table.
IGN TV: [...] I'm curious if you re-watched old episodes of the show before you began working on the film?
Urban: Well, I've been watching Star Trek since I was, oh gosh, seven years old so I was very familiar with the original series and with those characters. I didn't actually even have to go out of my way to re-watch old episodes. I've just been watching them for over 20 years! [Laughs]
IGN TV: McCoy was usually more hands off than Kirk and Spock, but you have done some pretty physical roles. Should we get ready for a more bad ass McCoy here?
Urban: I can't divulge any secrets. I would love to spill the beans, but I'm really not at liberty to say. But I just will say that the project as a whole is very faithful to the original series and I think that J.J. has a very fresh and exciting approach and I think that he's an incredibly talented visionary. I believe that he is going to reinvigorate this franchise in a really healthy, positive and exciting way. I really think that the Trekkers and the long time fans will be really pleased with it, because it really does honor the very spirit of what we are all really quite crazy about, in a good way.
IGN TV: I happened to go to high school with Chris Pine, so I was excited to see him cast as Kirk.
Urban: He's very good. He's very good. I'm so pleased that we've got someone of his caliber and ability in the role of Kirk, because he's extraordinarily talented and funny. I think he's got a big future ahead of him.
The full interview, in which Urban talks more about Star Trek, can be found here.
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Urban: Well, I've been watching Star Trek since I was, oh gosh, seven years old so I was very familiar with the original series and with those characters. I didn't actually even have to go out of my way to re-watch old episodes. I've just been watching them for over 20 years!
It's nice to hear that at least one of the actors on this project is personally acquainted with the source material. This allays some of my concerns about a brown-eyed Ozzy playing a blue-eyed southerner.
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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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