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Matt Damon Says J.J. Abrams Wants A Much Younger Kirk in Star Trek XI

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By GustavoLeao / 19:09, 20 July 2007 / Star Trek: Nemesis

IGN posted a video interview with actor Matt Damon in which he denies the rumor that he was in talks to be cast as the new James T. Kirk in the upcoming Star Trek XI movie.

Damon says that he talked to producer/director J.J. Abrams about the ‘internet rumor' and reveals how Abrams told him they are looking for a ‘much younger,' Kirk and that the film is ‘the early years' of Kirk. Damon thinks they are looking for an actor closer to 20.

Here is a quick transcript of the video, cortesy of Trek Movie Report 

IGN: have you been approached to play Captain Kirk?

Damon: No, that was an internet rumor. In fact I saw William Shatner commented on it which I thought was great. He said "I think he would make a good Captain Kirk" which I thought was really cool. But now, in fact I know that JJ is directing it and I talked to JJ and said "what is the deal" and he's like "no, the Kirk in my movie is much younger, it's like the early years." So I think he is hiring probably like a 20 year old actor or something.  So no it's just an internet rumor.

IGN: oh, it would have been awesome...

Damon: oh thanks, maybe if they do the progression then I can play him

You can watch the video here.



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I Don't Have A Problem With Damon | Report this post to moderator
By: Jean-Luc (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:04:55 on Jul 21, 2007

if it took place in year four or five of TOS, but I've thought all along they'll need a younger man to play Kirk(maybe around 25) if the movie will be about his first Enterprise mission.

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RE: "oh, it would have been awesome..." ----- WHAT!!?!?! | Report this post to moderator
By: SciFiPulse (Odo's file, contact) @ 05:43:45 on Jul 23, 2007

From what have read over the last few months am inclined to just wait and see.

1. Sure it is Kirk and Spocks first adventure, but have not read anything about it being aboard the Enterprise, I suspect that part about Enterprise is just fans jumping to conclusions.

2. For all we know this whole Kirk thing could be the biggest bluff ever and they are following the adventures of George Kirk who according to the Book world of Star Trek was the first security chief aboard Enterprise under the command of Robert April.

3. It could also be a story about one of Captain Pikes Adventures a few years prior to the one we bore witness too in the original Star Trek pilot episode 'The Cage'.

The fact is all we have to go on are a handful of cryptic interviews by Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman and J.J. Abrams. All have mentioned kirk, but for all we know the kirk they are mentioning could be him as a young boy tooked up in bed listing to his dad tell him a bed time story about his adventures about the newly commissioned NCC 1701.

Now I look at it this way. Its been a long time since we had a Star Trek movie. The last one that fared well was First Contact which lets face it re wrote Star Trek canon and was still a massive hit for Paramount. So this new flick cannot do much worse than Nemesis did. So instead of whinging about what may never happen how about we all just wait and see, look at the promos when they come and base whether we go and see it on those.

I think the lack of information for this new movie is by and large a good thing.

I mean I had a copy of the Insurrection script for a whole 8 months before that movie was released and that movie wasn't as commercially successful as FC, it actually did performed below expectations.

Then we all got the script for nemesis well in advance of release and look at how fast that tanked.



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RE: "oh, it would have been awesome..." ----- WHAT!!?!?! | Report this post to moderator
By: Grizzlor (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:19:27 on Jul 21, 2007

Regardless who is in the film, or what it is about, there remains this real question. Is Star Trek marketable at the box office? Nemesis did terribly, yes, and Enterprise was largely a flop. You have to wonder just what kind of interest remains? The days of TOS or TNG rerun every day after school are over. Are there new Trek fans? One positive is that the Matrix and Star Wars prequels are out of the way now. And the success of Transformers (stunk in my mind), Casino Royale (very good), have shown old franchises can still work. Or has Star Trek been reworked and retold so many times by now?

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RE: "oh, it would have been awesome..." ----- WHAT!!?!?! | Report this post to moderator
By: NEXUS (Odo's file, contact) @ 21:29:47 on Jul 20, 2007

Bad idea.

Nobody wants to see Kirk and co. as children.

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RE: "oh, it would have been awesome..." ----- WHAT!!?!?! by Captain Patti @ 08:47:17 on Jul 23
RE: "oh, it would have been awesome..." ----- WHAT!!?!?! by The TREKMAN!!!!! @ 02:53:44 on Jul 21
RE: "oh, it would have been awesome..." ----- WHAT!!?!?! by seventhstar @ 22:54:17 on Jul 20
    RE: "oh, it would have been awesome..." ----- WHAT!!?!?! by ericerickson592 @ 05:23:18 on Jul 21
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