Comments on: Luckinbill: Nimoy Wanted Another Role In Star Trek V

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:26:00 +0000

All so so true!

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:39:00 +0000

Or Sir Ben Kingsley, for that matter. Did he get his OBE for never turning down a role? Prince of Persia… Thunderbirds… Oh ye gods, Thunderbirds, why???

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:38:00 +0000

Or Malcolm McDowell. Neither one of them ever turns down a job, no matter how um… crappy.

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:37:00 +0000

That’s more like it.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:18:00 +0000

Fine, whenever one has to cast a respectable character in a piece of sci-fi B-movie drivel, David Warner is always available.
And probably very cheap.

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:13:00 +0000

“Anybody but Lawrence Luckinbill” should have been Sybok. I’m sorry, but the man has the screen presence of a wet can of dog food. They needed a more charismatic performer.
Better still, Sybok should not have been Sybok. It was a horrible idea in the first place, and like Gene Rodenberry, I would prefer to pretend it just never happened.

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:11:00 +0000

Go watch Time After Time, and then come back and apologize. David Warner can play an excellent, charismatic villain.

By: JohnS

JohnS — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:36:00 +0000

Considering how much dislike for the script that Nimoy and De Kelley had… I’m calling Hollywood PR BS nonsense on this story. It is no secret that both these main actors thought the script was a disaster from the very beginning – and both requested major changes because they felt their characters were not in keeping with the way they had portrayed them… So for Nimoy to want to play a 2nd character in a story arc (Spock supposedly still feeling inferior because of his human side) that he felt had already been wrapped up… yeah – no – can’t see it. It sounds more like a story told to Luckinbill to soften the blow of being treated coldly by Nimoy.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:44:00 +0000

Similarly, Patrick Stewart playing Shinzon would have been fun. Tom Hardy may be popular now and getting people to give the film a few curious second looks, but he’s ill-served by his material and direction. Stewart just by way of casting would have been very unnerving. Not sure they would have kept the Troi mind rape scenes though…

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:42:00 +0000

It’s true, whenever one has to cast a vaguely respectable character in a piece of sci-fi B-movie drivel, David Warner is always available.