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Chris Pine Confirmed as the New James T. Kirk

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By GustavoLeao / 15:21, 15 October 2007 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Actor Chris Pine is definitely in to play the new James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams new Star Trek movie, reports /Film and Trek Movie Report. Pine has dropped out of the Joe Carnahan-directed "White Jazz," which was apparently the final thing standing in his way of saying yes to Abrams and Star Trek.

On his blog, Carnahan said, "The young man playing Junior Stemmons has opted to 'go where no man has gone before' and thus, had to bow out of WHITE JAZZ. I've been talking to him this past week and knew how tough the decision had to be for him. I don't envy ever being in that spot but I gave him my full support, even if it meant he didn't do JAZZ. I get it. You don't get opportunities like that often and I told him as long as he could control as much of that process as possible and not get sucked into doing lesser sequels as a result of taking this gig, then good luck and God bless."

Carnahan has promised a role to Pine in Killing Pablo, his Pablo Escobar biopic which is set to go into production June 2008.

There are still no indications that William Shatner has been asked to play the older Captain James T. Kirk again in Abrams movie.

The original reports are here and here.



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By: Yesterday's Lemmiwinks (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:44:40 on Oct 16, 2007

I'm not chomping at the bit to see Shatner, but can you cite to me where anyone on the production team says that Nimoy's Spock is going to be portrayed in/from a time after Kirk's death? This story does involve time travel, after all...

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By: Beamer (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:27:14 on Oct 16, 2007

First of all, I agree: this would not be an issue if Nimoy had not been cast.

But second, I disagree that the appearance of Kirk would not work. E.g., a quick and dirty solution would be a "snatch" out of the nexus prior to his being killed. But then there is the Genesis planet concept and there's the venerable time-travel crutch (which if we believe what we read, they're already using...again).

So it is not out of the realm of thought to have the "76 year old" back in the saddle again...out where a friend is a Vulcan (to abuse the song!)

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By: John Calvin (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 10:13:44 on Oct 16, 2007

How do you know that the old Spock scenes take place in the 24th century? What if the are set before the events of Generations.

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