Matt Damon as Captain Kirk?
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Damon: I'd Play Kirk In Trek XI
Matt Damon told SCI FI Wire that he's open to assuming the role of Capt. James T. Kirk in the proposed 11th Star Trek movie, but denied previous rumors that he is already in line for the iconic role, which was originated by William Shatner. "If the script was good, I'd do it," Damon said in an interview while promoting his latest film, The Good Shepherd. "But, yeah, I heard that [rumor]. I think J.J. Abrams or somebody said that at [a] press junket or something, and it got picked up [by the media and Star Trek fans]."
If Damon were to win the role of Kirk, he would become the first actor to play the character since Shatner played him in the original 1960s Trek and its subsequent spinoff movies.
Abrams, who co-created ABC's hit SF series Lost, is set to co-write and produce Trek XI and may direct it as well. Abrams previously directed Mission: Impossible III.
Pretty much everything surrounding Star Trek XI remains a rumor at this point. Abrams is overseeing the project, and he's confirmed that he had courtesy conversations with Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock, but other than that, nothing official has been released yet about the film's plot, casting or other key details.
Damon is best known to genre fans for his roles in The Brothers Grimm and The Bourne Identity, as well as Oceans Eleven. —Ian Spelling
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Not to be the cloud over the sun, but too bad that TNG has finally ended after Nemesis. I guess they are trying to do what James Bond did and go back to their roots. I say do more Borg and Klingon movies!
Josh Gray
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Gah! So we're going to get the eleventh installment of a tired, tired old franchise ahead of the second installment of a fresh franchise. No wonder I hardly ever want to go to the theatre...
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Sweet Baby Jane, Matt Damon as Captain James T Kirk of the starship Enterprise. Let me guess Ben Affleck as Mr Spock. Hey put George Cloony as Scottie. Sweet Baby Jane I wouldn't let Matt Damon command a shuttle ride to the rings of Orion. Capt Kirk is king of space monkey sex. Nookie to CK is why he joined Star Fleet. Didn't we have enough of the lame French captain always rubbing on Ensign Crusher. I got it put Matt Damon on the landing party wearing a red shirt. Yeh thats the ticket. Its hard enough dealing with BSG remake of really good show to garbage.
Well I am totally disgusted.
"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".
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No! We must not allow Matt to sully himself with such roles! Someone go slap some sense into him!
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I liked him in the Bourne Identity/Supremacy, but I just don't see him in a captain role. Maybe they need Nathan Fillion, but I'd rather they just do another Serenity because that is what Sci-fi should be. I agree that Star Trek is getting really old, and they should just let it end with dignity. After all it did have a very long and proud run.
Josh Gray
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What they should do with Star Trek is hire a few of the people doing the novels to show-run a post-Voyager series, and give them leave to play fast and loose with the franchise bible's rules (that "no non-human captains" rule? Gone. The "no non-Starfleet crews" rule? That's the second one to go).
A TV series based on the S.C.E. or New Frontiers series would rock hard. So would an I.K.S. Gorkon series (though I'm personally kinda burned out on Klingons by now). Romulan Civil War. Cardassian reconstruction. Ferengi social reforms. Bajor-as-Federation-member (giving a citizen's-eye-view of just how the Federation works, and how the Bajoran Militia is folded into Starfleet).
The Trekverse is every bit as big and complex and nuanced as the Firefly 'verse, it's just that everyone's so obsessed with TOS that it's more lucrative to keep trying TOS: Redux than to actually do anything NEW!!!
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I'm not so much against Matt Damon assuming the role of Kirk as I am JJ Abrams taking the reins of the Star Trek franchise. I'm probably alone in my opinion on Abrams, but I think he's the worst thing to happen to TV in a long time.
I'd honestly rather let Stuart Baird come back and direct Star Trek XI. At least he knows how to put a movie together, even if Nemesis was kinda off.
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As exciting as a new Star Trek movie sounds, I don't think Matt Damon would be a good choice for Kirk. Not reason, why...my personal feelings.
personally. I wish they did a Voyager follow up. I want to know what happened to the crew after they got home. Anyway...2008 Star Trek movie. Woohoo.
"When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl, when you can't do that...You find someone to carry you."
You don't truely understand that quote. Until you needed it.
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As exciting as a new Star Trek movie sounds, I don't think Matt Damon would be a good choice for Kirk. Not reason, why...my personal feelings.
personally. I wish they did a Voyager follow up. I want to know what happened to the crew after they got home. Anyway...2008 Star Trek movie. Woohoo.
"When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl, when you can't do that...You find someone to carry you."
You don't truely understand that quote. Until you needed it.
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