Spock is my hero!
We are a political news site, but every once in a while you are going to have to put up with news on some of our obsessions. You know about our loves for the Gamecocks, Hootie, NASCAR, and Red Stripe, but here’s a dorkier one that you may not know: a couple of our contributors LOVE everything Star Trek and Star Wars. And lately we’ve become quite obsessed with Heroes.
So we are just peeing ourselves with excitement over the news that Leonard Nimoy will return as Spock in the new Trek movie. And Zachary Quinto who plays Sylar on Heroes will be playing young Spock.
Yeah…we really are geeks. Here’s the story:
Nimoy to reprise Spock role in Trek film
By SANDY COHEN
AP Entertainment Writer
SAN DIEGO –Leonard Nimoy isn’t through with Spock yet. The 76-year-old actor will don his famous pointy ears again to play the role in an upcoming “Star Trek” film due out Christmas 2008.
“This is really going to be a great movie. And I don’t say things like that lightly,” Nimoy told a gathering of 6,500 fans Thursday at Comic-Con, the nation’s largest pop-culture convention.
He greeted the crowd with a Vulcan salute.
Nimoy was joined by the newly named young Spock, “Heroes” star Zachary Quinto, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Nimoy.
Both Spocks were introduced by the film’s director and co-producer, J.J. Abrams.
“This is a series I loved as a kid,” Abrams said, acknowledging that he was “more of a ‘Star Wars’ kid than a ‘Star Trek’ kid.”
“This matters so much to so many people,” he said. “I’m honored to be here and do this.”
While the character of Captain Kirk has yet to be cast, Abrams said that William Shatner, who played the role in the original TV series, would likely also have a part in the film.
“It has to be worthy, of him and of you,” Abrams told fans, adding that production is slated to begin in November.
One fan asked Nimoy what he thought of his “replacement.”
“It was logical,” the actor said dryly. He then closed with Spock’s classic line: “Live long and prosper.”
July 27th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Whoa, whoa! Come on now! As a contributer, please do not lump me in with the your obsessions. I think Hootie is garbage, the Gamecocks are historically one of the worst programs to ever grace a D-1 football field, and NASCAR is for backwoods, bumbling, retards, who at times make me ashamed to call Charlotte home. Oh, and Star Trek? Seriously?
Ill give you Redstripe, as it is delicious and Heros is mildly entertaining.