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The physical demands of the theater proved to be rather painful for Chris Pine, who is trying to recover from his work on the Lieutenant of Inishmore.
Pine played Padraic, a hard-boiled terrorist, in the play which ran from July 11th through August 8th, but the role took a toll on his body.
A new rumor is floating about and it concerns a role for Star Trek XI‘s Chris Pine.
According to the rumor, Pine is one of the possibilities to be cast as the lead in The Flash.
Although he planned to play sports, Chris Pine discovered that acting was his real passion.
With a family genealogy of actors, it was no surprise that acting called to Pine. “My grandmother was an actress too,” said Pine. “In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal. Crazy, right?”
Last month, TrekToday reported on Alex Kurtzman‘s first film directing job, Welcome to People; and now word comes that Chris Pine is in talks for the lead role in the movie.
Welcome to People was written by Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, and Jody Lambert, and is the story “of a struggling twenty-something man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled twelve-year-old son. Determined to keep the money to solve his own problems, he’s nonetheless fascinated by his unknown kin and makes contact with the two without revealing who he really is.”
Pine is currently filming FOX’s This Means War and will next appear in November in the Fox thriller Unstoppable.
Tom Hardy, best-known to Trek fans as Shinzon in 2002′s Star Trek: Nemesis, will be replacing Sam Worthington in This Means War.
Hardy will play one of two spies who wages black-ops warfare on each other when they both fall for the same girl (Reese Witherspoon). The other spy will be played by another Star Trek alum, Chris Pine.
This Means War is expected to be released in 2011.
Although he seems to be doing quite well as an actor, Chris Pine was more interested in sports when he was younger.
Some actors know from childhood that they want to act, but for Pine, he didn’t discover acting until he went to college and got involved in theater. “It satisfied everything I enjoyed about using your mind and being in front of people and the charge of that,” he said.
Chris Pine is hoping for a little more character development in the next Star Trek movie, including romance.
In a recent interview, Pine spoke about the sequel, and admitted that he didn’t know when shooting would begin. “I don’t know,” he said, when asked. “I haven’t heard. I’m always the last person to find out. It’s sometime next year I know. I don’t know if it’s January.”
Starting this weekend, Christopher Pine (James T. Kirk) will be appearing in The Lieutenant of Irishmore, a dark comedy playing at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Speaking to OC Register to promote the play, Pine said that his Trek role has allowed him to take on a wide variety of interesting roles:
“I’ve been really blessed from Star Trek to get more opportunities than I had previously in my career. And I just wait for the good material. I’ve been lucky in that I’ve gotten to play on the really big stage with [Denzel Washington] and Tony Scott [Pine will star in the upcoming Scott film Unstoppable with Washington]. Counter that with these theater productions, which are a whole different thing. I just try to follow what’s good and what interests me and challenges me and makes me think and engages a part of me. It’s so rare to get all of your muscles firing at once. That’s what I look for in any role.
For Pine’s thoughts on his play, head over to the full article.
The 2010 MTV Movie Awards were held last night and while it was a bad night for Star Trek fans, fans of Twilight were happy with the five awards that came its way.
Both Chris Pine and Zoë Saldana lost in their categories, Saldana losing both times to actors from The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
Chris Pine will be starring in the Center Theatre Group’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
Pine will join Ian Alda, Andrew Connolly, Coby Getzug, Seán G. Griffin, Kevin Kearns, Zoe Perry and Brett Ryback in the Martin McDonagh play, which will be directed by Wilson Milam.
Chris Pine and Zoë Saldana were each nominated twice for an MTV Movie Award.
Nominated for his work in Star Trek XI, Pine will be competing in two categories; Biggest Badass Star and Best Breakout Star.
Chris Pine, Star Trek XI‘s Captain Kirk, is in negotiations for a spy comedy movie.
Fox is trying to sign Pine for the starring role in the buddy spy comedy, This Means War.
Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto were seen at an after-party for the premiere of Rashida Jones‘s new film Monogamy at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Jones (Parks and Recreation), daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton (Mod Squad) is starring opposite Chris Messina (Law and Order, Six Feet Under) in the drama about two thirty-somethings who seem to have a comfortable life and bright future until a job makes Theo (Messina) confront some uncomfortable truths about himself and his impending marriage.
The nominations for Canada’s fourth annual Constellation Awards have been announced, and Star Trek XI has been nominated in four different categories.
The Constellation Awards, honoring excellence in science-fiction film and television, announced their nominations last week in a televised announcement on G4 Canada’s EP Daily.
Following in the footsteps of Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck, Chris Pine (James T. Kirk) will try his hand at playing Wall Street stockbroker Jack Ryan.
Ryan, created by author Tom Clancy, has appeared in a dozen novels, including The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and The Sum of All Fears.