"Anybody"
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news:160320081041222525%%anybody@anywhere-anytime.com...> In article <47dc43a6$0$14354$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, "Wouter
> Valentijn" wrote:
>
>> Anybody wrote:
>>> In article <13tnu21ekunpte7@
corp.supernews.com>, "Steven L."
>>>
earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> (not quite so) Fat Sam wrote:
>>>>> Steven L. wrote:
>>>>>> Excerpts from an interview with Simon Pegg, who plays Scotty in the
>>>>>> upcoming Trek XI:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "I have to go back next week for a couple of effects shots but
>>>>>> otherwise I'm done. Eric's [Bana] only just started". he said about
>>>>>> the production.
>>>>>> Pegg says the new Star Trek prequel is a very serious
>>>>>> science-fiction movie. "It's not at all ironic. It's not a jokey
>>>>>> take on the original series. It's a faithful and loving instalment
>>>>>> in the ongoing mythology of the show".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pegg reveals that there will be sequels to the new movie featuring
>>>>>> the new cast.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "I was slightly worried about tying myself into a franchise for
>>>>>> nine years. It was obviously something to think about, but J.J
>>>>>> said, "If the worst thing that happens is we get to hang out every
>>>>>> three years and have great fun, what's the problem?" I thought
>>>>>> that was a great argument".
>>>>>
>>>>> Plus, having played a major part in any trek story, he'll find
>>>>> himself comfortably sat in the first class compartment of the gravy
>>>>> train for life. There will always be Star Trek conventions for him
>>>>> to attend and get paid handsomely for doing so.
>>>>> I'd say that's an even better argument.
>>>>
>>>> Not if he wants to avoid being typecast as a Star Trek actor, which
>>>> is what will happen if he is stuck with the franchise for nine whole
>>>> years. James Doohan was never able to avoid being typecast as
>>>> "Scotty" and couldn't find work elsewhere after TOS was canceled.
>>>>
>>>> Shatner and Nimoy managed to find other plum assignments (Mission:
>>>> Impossible, T. J. Hooker, etc.). The rest of the regular TOS cast
>>>> weren't as lucky. They never escaped their TOS typecasting.
>>>
>>> Semi-true. "Scotty" did a couple of other roles and so has "Ulhura"
>>> and "Sulu", but not many ... then again very few actors get multiple
>>> big roles, especially the "non-stars" of a show.
>>
>> Once a sidekick always a sidekick?
>>
>> Let's look at the Great Eight (making that up just now of course,
consisting
>
> Some of those roles will of course come from before they were in Star
> Trek, and some will be were they played themselves rather than an
> actual character (eg. George Takei on an episode of Psych that played
> here recently).
So yet again Anybody's got nothn'
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