Simon Pegg to Play Scotty

In response to yesterday's casting news about Chris Pine possibly taking the captain's chair for the new Star Trek movie, apparently Simon Pegg will be playing the role of Scotty. Simon Pegg is known for his role as Shaun in Shaun of the Dead and more recently for his leading role in Hot Fuzz. "Pegg joins Zoe Saldana as Uhura, Anton Yelchin as Chekov, John Cho as Sulu and Zachary Quinto as Spock in the film which reportedly, and logically, 'chronicles the early days of the Enterprise crew.' Leonard Nimoy will also put in an appearance, while Eric Bana signed up this week as the movie's villain, Nero."

English Scotty???

[lobiusmoop]

As a Scotsman, I'm somewhat miffed that an Englishman is playing the role... This is almost as bad as Mel Gibson (an Ozzie) playing William Wallace for goodness sake!

Re:let it die

[Belacgod]

Bond started sucking when they ran out of Ian Fleming novels. Casino Royale, being originally written by Fleming, restored the guiding force to the series. Expect it to suck again now that they're out of books again.

Re:Impossible.

[DragonWriter]

The problem with making a Star Trek Babies movie is that there is absolutely NO THREAT to any of the characters.

Is this really an issue? I mean, seriously, was there such a threat in the series (any of them) to anyone but anonymous redshirts? None of the major cast were killed off during the series except Tasha Yar. Really, the Trek format isn't about serious threats (from the audience point of view) to major characters, even though there are occasionally such threats from the characters POV.

Yeah, so we know they aren't going to pull (without breaking continuity, which perhaps shouldn't be considered inconceivable in a Star Trek prequel) a TWoK -- if only because reversing it in a subsequent movie has been done before; but then how many times in hundreds of TV episodes and dozens of movies has a major character death (or departure to join the Q, whatever) happened in Trek anyway? The rare occasion when it does happen it gets its power from the fact that the fans "know" its not going to happen, even if the overt situation is one which seriously threatens it.

So, really, I don't think much is lost by making that slightly more inconceivable than normal.

Re:Shatner is the greatest

[Rogerborg]

Those who mock the Shatner, those who dub him 'cheesy' or 'over the top' should ask themselves this: at what point during his performance of Kirk do you ever, even for one second, doubt that you are watching the captain of the starship Enterprise?

Shatner - like Doohan - is a method actor. When the camera is on him, he actually believes that he is in command of a starship, and his belief is what drags us kicking and screaming along with him. Love him or hate him, you could never catch him playing it at one iota less than warp 9 [memory-alpha.org]. This new guy? Pwwwpt. He's just an actor. He's not the captain of the Enterprise.

Shatner. Is. Kirk.

Star Trek: The Documentary Series era. Is. Shatner.

Re:Wrong guy to do Montgomery Scott.

[Darinbob]

Get a REAL Scot to do it. Ewan McGregor for the win.

The drawback is if Ewan insisted on doing another nude scene.

Paul Mcgillion...

[Akaihiryuu]

...is who I was hoping to see at Scotty. AKA Dr. Beckett on Atlantis. The characters (Scotty and Beckett) are supposed to be from the same place in Scotland, while the actors (Doohan and Mcgillion) are both from the Vancouver. Paul's already got the accent down, and I think he even looks like a young Doohan. This sentiment was echoed by Doohan's son Chris (who was going to try for the role himself until he saw Paul audition). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGillion [wikipedia.org]