Sylar is the new Spock
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.
For 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.
