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Zachary Quinto in Negotiations to Play Spock in Star Trek XI ?

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By GustavoLeao / 16:11, 11 July 2007 / Star Trek: Nemesis

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According to CHUD.com, Heroes villain Zachary Quinto is "in negotiations" to play the young Spock in J.J. Abrams Star Trek XI movie.

Quinto told Starburst Magazine a few months ago, "When the news about the next Star Trek movie began to surface I became inundated with e-mails and links to websites where people were saying, 'Zach Quinto should play [young] Spock'. I started opening myself up to the idea and I think the exploration and immersion to be done with such a character would be amazing."

"I tend to be the type of personb who acts from a very visceral place and reacts emotionally to situations, and to 'become' a character that is completely the opposite of that is one of the reasons why I'm an actor. I would love the opportunity to understand what it is to only operate from a place of logic and look at things so specifically from that perspective."

If Quinto is indeed cast in Star Trek XI then that would require heavy retooling of the Heroes filming schedule as Star Trek's fall shoot would conflict with the series.

Official casting announcements for the movie are expected to be made at this month's Comic-Con in San Diego.

This information is preliminary, of course, and entirely rumor.

The original report can be found at CHUD.com.



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By: Captain Patti (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:12:44 on Jul 15, 2007

This guy as a young Spock? COME ON THE guy doesn't even look like Nimoy.

More prequel crap.

Bring back Rick Berman!


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oh HELL no | Report this post to moderator
By: Plaid Ninja (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:36:34 on Jul 13, 2007 | Edit History (1)

Disrupt Heroes for this? HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL no.

NOT cool.

Though he would be good for the part. I could live with a Trek delay though, to accomodate Heroes.

Sorry, but I love that show and as much as I want to see more Trek I really want a great season of Heroes. Especially since this is just a single film. That's a whole season that can be impacted.


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Makes sense | Report this post to moderator
By: Poetwarrior78 (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:39:55 on Jul 13, 2007

The Quinto rumour (which has been around for awhile) is the only major Trek XI casting rumour so far that makes any sense to me. I think he'd be terrific, so I hope there's some validity to this.

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    By: Glassman Cometh (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:30:02 on Jul 13, 2007

    I'm with you on this one...he'd be great, and much better 'hip' casting than Adrian Brody who has only prove one thing to me...he just has no wow factor. Quinto looks the part, where as Brody will just bring his usual boring charm...

    So...yeah..I'm so with that...

    Chaotic


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personb? | Report this post to moderator
By: Chimera06 (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:24:02 on Jul 11, 2007 | Edit History (1)

This Chud site is not legit, nor is the spelling of the person posting, being the "type of personb..." that might make it all up. Maybe he made it up.

Untill JJ Abrams announces official cast members, ignore these things.


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    By: sb2004 (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:52:34 on Jul 11, 2007

    I can't speak to the site, but Quinto is getting a lot of buzz online as a possible choice for the role of Spock. He has my vote and has ever since I first saw him play Sylar.

    However I do take this report with quite a few grains of salt because of the reference to "Heroes filming schedule" since, presumably, Sylar was killed off at the end of Season 1. And even if he wasn't there has been no official announcement that he's coming back for season 2. For Quinto to break a spoiler like that seems somewhat unlikely.

    Al


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