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Tom Cruise as Captain Christopher Pike ? Casting Rumor Mill Spinning Fast

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By GustavoLeao / 07:38, 7 August 2007 / Star Trek: Nemesis

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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By: NCC-1701 (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:21:07 on Aug 08, 2007

Paramount and Cruise have very much parted company - sounds like a fake to me.

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