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Leonard Nimoy Says New Star Trek Movie Will Revitalize the Entire Franchise

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By GustavoLeao / 07:47, 13 January 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Journalist Peter Hossli sent to TrekWeb excerpts of a yet to be published interview with Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy. Here is the excerpts of the interview regarding Star Trek. Thanks to Mr. Hossli. Please visit his website at Hossli.com

Let´s talk about "Star Trek". 

Nimoy: Why? Is this really necessary? 

Currently you´re preparing another "Star Trek" movie. You play Spock as an old man. What  kind of ailments does he have? 

Nimoy: [laughs, then picks up a photograph] whenever you go to Rome next time you need  to visit Villa Borghese. You´ll find Canova´s Paulina sculpture. It´s simply gorgeous. Yes, I´m  in the new "Star Trek" movie. Let´s leave it at that.

"Star Trek" still has tremendous culture resonance. How has its impact changed over the  years? 

Nimoy: I haven´t paid much to what´s been happening to "Star Trek". I´ve been out of it since  1989, almost 20 years. Now were going into a project that in its own way is going to be a very  important project if it works. It will revitalize the entire "Star Trek" franchise. It will be a very big, very expensive movie, much more expansive than any of the movies I was involved with.  I directed two "Star Trek" films, the last one I directed, the budget was about 27 million dollar.  With this one, the budget will be about 150 million dollars.

More from Nimoy can be found at Hossli.com 

For more info about journalist Peter Hossli, click here



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By: seventhstar (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:45:52 on Jan 13, 2008

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I have went on these sites and read comments back and forth on William Shatner being in/out of this project. By my count, seems more want him in than out. Many who want him in are still angry about his death in "Star Trek Generations" because many feel that it was not a proper send off of Kirk. I agree. Gene Roddenberry had already died prior to "Generations" and I don't think he would have been pleased with what they did to his Kirk character. I wish Kirk's involvement with Trek would have stopped with "Undiscovered Country", which was a proper send off. But that’s not what happened.

On non-Trek boards, when the subject comes up, it seems to me that even there the number of people that want to see Shatner back as Kirk outweigh those who don't or don't care either way.

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