February 28th, 2007 by dd
From Lost to the frontiers of Space
It was officially announced that Lost creator JJ Abrams will direct Star Trek XI. As a result, casting news is heating up, with all kinds of exciting speculation about where the Enterprise is headed.
IGN claims Matt Damon is talking to Paramount about playing Captain Kirk. He’s long been rumored as Abrams’ first choice for the part. Now that the script is finished and JJ is set to direct, this would be the time to bring him in for a pitch. For the role of Spock, rumor has it that King Kong and Hollywoodland star Adrien Brody is in play. For McCoy, Paramount is talking to Gary Sinise for the role of Doctor “Bones” McCoy.
George Takei, Asian American Pioneering Actor
Those three are supposed to be pretty close to getting cast. IGN also mentions Daniel Dae Kim, who plays Jin on Lost, as a contender for the role of Sulu.
The Dumpling isn’t a Trekkie by any stretch of the imagination but Daniel deserves to be in a role where he gets to speak his native language, English, because apparently the Korean he speaks on Lost is too painful for native speakers to bear.
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January 6th, 2007 by dd
It’s been quite a whirlwind year for Masi Oka, the combustible, endearing, instant star of the American hit series, Heroes. His easy-going demeanor and non-conventional Hollywood background has made him one of the more popular figures in Tinseltown.
Recently, he chatted with E! Entertainment about the future of his character, Hiro. There aren’t really any spoilers so no need to fret if you’re a fanatic about the show. As a teaser, there’s talk of filial piety tension, possible smoochy smoochy, and something about a dinosaur. Want more? Read the full interview after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »
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November 20th, 2006 by dd
Superman had Jor-El. Batman has Wayne Manor. And now Hiro Nakamura has Captain Sulu.
Figuring all great Heroes need to have come from somewhere, the hit NBC series has tapped Star Trek icon George Takei to play the father of Hiro Nakamura, the plucky Japanese office worker who happens to be able to bend the space-time continuum.
E! Online’s Kristin Veitch reported Monday that a new character “who has been around a lot longer” was joining the serialized drama, which has become one of the few solid new hits of the 2006 television season, attracting more than 14.4 million viewers a week.
“This is absolutely brilliant,” Masi Oka, who plays Hiro, told TV Guide. “Hiro’s father is this big honcho who shows up in America with his bodyguard. He has this whole elaborate scheme to kidnap his son and take him back to Japan.”
Which probably won’t go over too well with Hiro, who, after traveling five weeks into the future just in time to see New York go boom, has journeyed to the States to save the world. Read the rest of this entry »
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