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    Grant

    Sylar is the new Spock

    posted by Grant on July 27, 2007 8:57 AM in Geek Culture

    It has now been 100% confirmed, via Comic-Con panel, that Zachary Quinto will be portraying the pointy-eared legend of Mr. Spock in JJ Abrams's new Star Trek movie, which is due out by Ecksmas of next year.

    sylarspock.jpgFor those of you who missed Heroes or just didn't read the title of this post, Quinto played the villain named Sylar. Plus, Leonard Nimoy himself will be reprising his role, returning as an old Spock at some point in the movie. I think that's a pretty good sign that someone is taking the time and consideration to make this movie something really good, instead of just milking a franchise. It'll be quite a change for Quinto, who will go from a crazy evil guy, driven almost exclusively by emotion to, well, it's friggin' Spock. I don't need to describe Spock to you, do I? If I do, I have no idea how you managed to accidentally type our URL when you meant to go to iliveinacave.com or something.

    Young Kirk has not yet been cast and Abrams also wants to try to fit Shatner in the movie somehow.

    The fine folks over at TrekWeb have a transcript and video of the panel from Comic-Con.

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    Zac says:

    posted July 28, 2007 12:40 PM

    It's like you guys are hanging out at this other message board I frequent. Both the WWN news and this got posted there. But like I said there, how is it possible for Old Kirk to make an appearance? He was presumed dead when he was sucked into the Nexus. He finally came out of the Nexus 90 years later when he helped Picard stop Dr. Soren, dying in the process.

    There's no place for Old Kirk & Old Spock scenes to take place that makes sense.

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