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Chris Pine auditioned for Avatar

Liam — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:22:48 +0000

There are two big space movies being released this year. The first is J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot, and the second is James Cameron’s Avatar. Both are looking like they will be big hits, and the lead actors in both movies have a bit of buzz surrounding them. As well as Avatar, Sam Worthington also has a large role in Terminator Salvation, and is being touted as the next big action star. Chris Pine is also getting similar attention for his role as James T. Kirk in Star Trek, however he told Vanity Fair that he actually auditioned for Avatar (possibly for the role Sam Worthington eventually won):

“There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I’m in a Saturday Night Live skit. One was for Avatar”—James Cameron’s upcoming science-fiction epic—“which was probably the worst audition I ever gave. Another was for 10,000 bc, where I was just, like, on my haunches pretending to be in a loincloth in Burbank.” Pine laughs. “Then the other one was Star Trek. It was all this jargon talk of torpedoes and photons,” which, needless to say, didn’t quite trip off the tongue. Fortunately, he got a second chance seven months later and nailed it.

Even though he didn’t land the Avatar job two things are clear: He has a good agent, and he was obviously destined to be in big sci-fi movies. There are even rumblings that he could end up playing Hal Jordan in The Green Lantern, although nothing is official yet.

Star Trek UK poster

Liam — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:58:37 +0000

Empire, being UK based, were given a cool poster for Star Trek. The poster combines the character shots we’ve already seen for Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) with the sight of the Enterprise under construction.

New Star Trek Banner

Liam — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:58:46 +0000

MTV have got an exclusive banner from J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek movie. I have one comment on this. What on earth have they done to Simon Pegg?! Everybody else looks normal apart from him. Bad photoshop work Paramount!

The film stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, John Cho, Ben Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Winona Ryder, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy, Marlene Forte, and Jimmy Bennett.

Kirk And Spock Star Trek Posters!

Liam — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:45:32 +0000

Paramount have provided half the internet with two new posters from J.J. Abrams upcoming Star Trek movie. They feature Chris Pine as Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock.

The film also stars John Cho, Ben Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Winona Ryder, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy, Marlene Forte, and Jimmy Bennett.

We also have news of the soon to be released trailer from /Film:

The official Star Trek movie website has been updated with a countdown clock. Apparently the new trailer, which will be attached to Quantum of Solace this Friday, won’t appear online until Monday, November 17th at 10:00am pt / 7:00am et. So if you want to see the new Star Trek trailer, your first chance will be only in theaters.

New Star Trek Images!

Liam — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:21:51 +0000

After a rather long silence the Star Trek marketing has stepped up a gear today, with the release of some new images. They all popped up on different sites and the first image gives us our first look at the crew.

From left to right: Anton Yelchin as Chekov, Chris Pine as James T. Kirk, Simon Pegg as Lt. Montgomery Scott, Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy, John Cho as Sulu and Zoe Saldana as Uhura.

From JoBlo we have our first look at Nero, played by Eric Bana.

Below is AICN’s photo of Zachary Quinto as Spock.

TrekMovie got a first look at the USS Kelvin, a Federation starship from the generation before the Enterprise.

MTV has our first look at the bridge of the starship.

IGN got an image of Chris Pine as James T. Kirk coming out of, what may be, the NCC-1701 escape pod.

I will update with more images as they come!

Kevin Smith Has Seen Star Trek And Approves!

Liam — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:16:30 +0000

Kevin Smith is one lucky homo sapien! He saw MI:III and The Dark Knight early, and here in mid-September of 2008 he’s already seen Zack Snyder’s Watchmen and J.J. Abrams Star Trek! I demand him to make me his friend!

While in Toronto this week he spoke to MTV and gave a glowing review of Chris Pine’s performance as a young Kirk. and had good words to say about Zoe Saldana as an equally young Uhura.

“It’s really strong,” said Smith. “[J.J. Abrams] was rejiggering the opening few scenes. It’s one of those things where you first heard about it and were like no they’re not going to redo ‘Star Trek’! And then you see the movie and you think, wow he did pull it off! He turned it into a viable renewed franchise.”
Who stood out among this new cast, I asked him. “Chris Pine is fantastic,” he gushed. “It is a star-making performance. From his first scene forward, this dude is not doing an impression of Shatner. He is doing young Kirk. He doesn’t have the slow delivery mannerisms of Shatner but it’s totally James T. Kirk, the bravado, the self-assuredness. It’s such a great performance. You can’t take your eyes off the guy. Anytime he’s not on the screen you’re waiting for him to get back. And the chick [Zoe Saldana] who plays Uhura is really great. They made Uhura really interesting.”

I’ll admit I haven’t seen one episode of Star Trek, however if the trailers for this are great then I will probably see this next May.

Star Trek Comic Con Posters

Liam — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:50:41 +0000

In their Comic Con Preview edition, Entertainment Weekly has a sneak peek at some posters that are going to be given way at Comic Con next week…and for the first time we have images of actual cast members from JJ Abrams Star Trek.