Trek casting news.

[lance_sibley]

Trektoday.com and Trekmovie.com are both reporting that Zoe Saldana has been cast as Uhura in the upcoming Star Trek movie. Full story here.

Interesting choice. She does look a bit like a young Nichelle Nichols. I don't know anything about her acting skills, though she's been pretty busy over the last six or seven years. Her IMDb profile includes a couple of episodes of Six Degrees, episodes of Law & Order and L&O: SVU, Drumline, The Terminal (of which there's a clip on the Trekmovie site) and Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl.

Comments

[jj79.livejournal.com]

The cast is starting to take shape, but the biggie is still out there.

Who will play Kirk?

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I expect that Kirk will be the last part cast, if only because they're going to be really careful and see every actor in Hollywood who's even a remote possibility.

Or, who knows - maybe they've already cast him, but they're not announcing who it is until the end of the process to create anticipation. ;) (I don't know if that would even be possible, to be honest, though I guess they could get the actor and his agent to sign a non-disclosure agreement, under pain of losing the part if they break it.)

So, I guess that if anyone knows, it would be you - is there any credence to the Russell Crowe rumour at all?

[jj79.livejournal.com]

Everyone seems to be running with the Crowe idea right now and I guess the movie needs at least one A-list actor to headline. Quinto might be a geek A lister, but not a name for the mass audience. Maybe there's going to be a big name for Kirk and they want both to headline? As a fan, I'm not wild about Crowe. I just don't like him as a person or him as an actor. Overrated, self involved and makes pretty crappy movies.

My best guess is casting will come out very slowly. Spock was July-ish, Chekov was August, Uhura was September...I'm guessing Sulu, Scotty and Bones will finish up the year. Maybe a design of the Enterprise in January. Abrams and Paramount will want to make a splash with the Kirk actor. I'm guessing comic-con next year (July). But the other question then becomes how you keep it secret if filming starts this fall.

God, I sound like such a geek.