Simon Pegg to play Scotty in new 'Star Trek' movieOr so Sci Fi Wire is reporting this morning. I am a happy, happy girl today. support
Disqus commentsblog comments powered by Disqus |
posted:
Fri Oct 12 07, 10:08AM categories: talent buzz permalink 10 pre-Disqus comments Disqus comments tip jarshare
relatedbloggyprevious post: movie-ku #25 next post: movie-ku #26 |
|
|
search
follow
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in case of site outages or other emergencies, I'll update my status on Twitter and Facebook)
|
||
follow FlickFilosopher.com no matter where you are online
|
||
share and enjoy
shop to support
support FlickFilosopher.com when you click through here and buy almost anything at:
• Amazon U.S.
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon U.K.
• Amazon Germany
• Amazon France
• Amazon Spain
• Amazon Italy
• Chapters/Indigo (Canada)
• Amazon U.S.
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon U.K.
• Amazon Germany
• Amazon France
• Amazon Spain
• Amazon Italy
• Chapters/Indigo (Canada)
pre-Disqus comments
posted by MBI (Fri Oct 12 07, 12:25PM)
I don't even like Star Trek and that made me happy.
posted by MaryAnn (Fri Oct 12 07, 3:03PM)
I love Pegg and I love Scotty, and now they'll be together. *sigh*
posted by Clayj (Fri Oct 12 07, 3:40PM)
But can he do a Scottish accent?
posted by bonnie-ann black (Fri Oct 12 07, 4:33PM)
he probably can do a scottish accent (at least as well as jimmy doohan did)... but it *does* lead me to wonder -- are there no young scottish actors who could do this role? i mean, i *love* simon pegg but i'm just saying is all....
posted by Clayj (Fri Oct 12 07, 5:12PM)
Bonnie-Ann, my point exactly. I am forced to wonder if they're going with Pegg simply because J.J. Abrams, the director, has worked with Pegg before (Mission: Impossible III) and he likes working with the same actors.
Personally, I think this whole Star Trek prequel thing is unnecessary and I am not planning to go see it when it's released.
posted by MaryAnn (Fri Oct 12 07, 7:08PM)
I dunno, but he can do at least one killer imitation: of Michael Caine. That suggests he's got a good ear.
Anyway, Jimmy Doohan wasn't Scottish, either.
posted by bats :[ (Sun Oct 14 07, 2:03PM)
Now I hope the franchise can be revitalized for another 20-30 years, so Simon can really shine as Fat Scotty...
posted by Cthulhu (Sun Oct 14 07, 2:14PM)
He did a passable scottish accent in an episode of Spaced, the sitcom that "launched" him, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost & co here in the UK...
I also believe it's some form of "Peggist" payback for Ewan's english accent in the Star Wars prequels...lol!
:-)
posted by MaryAnn (Sun Oct 14 07, 6:37PM)
After Pegg's film *Run, Fat Boy, Run* comes out later this month, Pegg's fans will have a rejoinder for that: He's not fat, he's just unfit.
posted by Rykker (Tue Oct 16 07, 6:35PM)
I had pretty much given up hope that there would ever be another Star Trek... anything...
Having Pegg in the cast bodes well, methinks.