Dammit, I'm a doctor, not a casting director!

posted by Grant on October 14, 2007 10:44 AM in Geek Culture, Movies

I don't know if any of you are interested in the new Star Trek movie that's due out around Christmas of next year, but some of the recent casting decisions are giving it promise. Not to mention that J.J. Abrams is the guy in charge of the whole shebang. I've never seen Lost, but I know lots of you Geekkateers really like it. Plus, from past interviews and such, JJ seems like he's interested in making a film that honors the Trek legacy, rather than just cashing in on a known franchise.

Spock was the first role to be officially named, with Zachary Quinto stepping into the green-blooded shoes. And they've been saying that Quinto is really diving into the role, spending lots of time with Nimoy himself and really getting to know him.

Uhura and Chekov have also been filled, but not by anyone that I'm familiar with. And just recently, Scotty and Sulu have been announced, and I'm kinda excited by it.

Simon Pegg, whom you may know as Shaun of the Dead has been officially confirmed to play Montgomery "Scotty" Scott. While John Cho (Harold of "and Kumar" fame) has been placed in the role of Hiraku Sulu. The call for Pegg to be Scotty really kinda came out of nowhere, but I think he should do a good job. Hell, he basically was a Scotty-type character in Mission: Impossible 3.

Oh, and our favorite gay deep-voiced Asian superhero daddy, George Takei, has given his support to Cho for the role of Sulu, unconcerned that Cho is Korean rather than Japanese.

So all that leaves us with is casting for Kirk and Bones. Chris Pine and Mike Vogel have both been rumored for James Tiberius Kirk. And the latest on Dr. McCoy is that Karl Urban is the favored choice. But none of this has been confirmed.

Also, I suppose they might be looking for a Nurse Chapel, but no word on that situation at all.

Who do you want to see as Kirk and Bones?

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New Penny Arcade Adventures Screenshots

posted by Grant on June 21, 2007 9:51 PM in Games

From their new upcoming game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, the crew at Hothead games and Penny Arcade have released a handfull of screen shots.

The game is shaping up to look pretty slick (no pun intended), but we really don't know a whole lot about it at the moment other than Mike does the art, Jerry does the writing, and Hothead fills in the rest. Oh, and it's a kind of an adventure/rpgish type game with gameplay along the lines of classics such as Maniac Mansion and the Monkey Island series.

Take a look at some of these:

Seems like there's gonna be a fairly extensive player creation in the game.

The cel shading looks fairly nice. It's definitely the way to go for a comic-inspired game. And even though it's in 3D, it still seems to capture Mike's particular style pretty well.

Here we see what may be motivation for your character, as well as a grammatical error. The "their" is hopefully just a temporary placeholder for the correct gendered pronoun depending on which gender your character is.

The battle system looks like it could be fairly simple and intuitive.

I'm a pretty big PA fan and I'm looking forward to this game, but am remaining cautiously optimistic.

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