You know how William Shatner does his usual spoken word things over music? Well the Shat hosted RAW last night and they showed this little segment. Shatner does the same thing, spoken word over music except he’s doing it with superstar theme songs. Check out this priceless video, hilarious.
Kev
There are talks of William Shatner returning to “Star Trek” sequel by JJ Abrams. What about the other original cast mates appearing in the next movie? Do you think it’s possible if they can bring back George Takei as the original Sulu, James Doohan as Scotty, Walter Koenig as Chekov and Nichelle Nichols as the original Uhura to make cameos in the next one too?
Will they even somehow throw in Captain Picard if Patrick Stewart agrees to make a Star Trek return?
It’s funny how everyone wants Kirk and Spock back into the new movies when they forget the other cast mates. I’m sure JJ will somehow write in a cameo spot for other Star Trek actors.
Kirstie Alley made a cameo in JJ’s “Star Trek”, as you may or may not know, Kirstie Alley played one of the leading characters, Lt. Saavik in “Star Trek II, III, and IV”.
Kev
One of “Star Trek’s” writers, Roberto Orci, admits that William Shatner was written in the script for a cameo and they originally had William Shatner do the, “Space, the Final Frontier” narrative voice over at the end, but they took that out too, find out all about it here…
If you haven’t seen the new “Star Trek” movie yet, DO NOT read this article, there are major spoilers in the storyline here:
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1611116/story.jhtml
Shocking!
I’m sure they’ll find a way to bring William Shatner back in the next movie though. They’ll have plenty of time to come up with the right ways to bring him back that’ll make some sense.
Remember that when William Shatner claimed that the new “Star Trek” movie will bomb without him? Well it didn’t!!!! I’ve been saying that from day 1.
Kev
William Shatner held a horse show event and he invited some of the “Star Trek” cast and crew to attend.
See a few pics below!!!
Kev
The NASA space program has announced, they are working on a 3D animated movie titled, “Quantum Quest”. NASA has recently signed the two Captain Kirk actors William Shatner and Chris Pine, also the two Darth Vader actors Hayden Christensen and James Earl Jones to provide the leading voice overs for “Quantum Quest”.
Also in the cast are: Samuel L. Jackson, Amanda Peet, Jason Alexander (“Seinfeld” actor), Sandra Oh, Mark Hamill, Spencer Breslin, and the real life astronaut, the first human being to step on the moon ever, Neil Armstrong, will also provide voice overs for this animated film.
While Shatner missed out the opportunity to star in JJ Abrams “Star Trek”, at least he’ll get the opportunity to star in a film with Chris Pine is better than nothing.
Variety Reports:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117998073.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Sounds very cool, and interesting.
Kev
So you’ve seen the “Star Trek” trailer I posted here in the blog. And you see a young Captain Kirk getting it on with a young Uhura. I’m sure those of you who are not much of a Star Trek fan and you’re thinking to yourselves, “WTF? Was Captain Kirk and Uhura ever in love?”
In answer to your question…yes, they were at one point…since JJ Abrams goal with the new “Star Trek” movie to be a complete homage to the original series…that is why he had to throw the Kirk and Uhura relationship in there.
Captain James T. Kirk had always been known to be a womanizer in the series and the films. In the earlier episodes of the original Star Trek series, there is one episode where Kirk and Uhura were intimate.
The video below…
Kev
Well, it didn’t take long for George Takei to pick up on William Shatner’s videoblog on him ranting about that he wasn’t invited to George and Brad’s wedding. Turns out, that George Takei DID invite Shatner to the wedding. George had a rep send Shatner an invite but Shatner never responded. It was done through Shatner’s manager. It’s been said that Shatner didn’t respond back because he was busy at the time.
TMZ reports:
http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/23/sulu-calls-bs-on-kirk-s-warped-screed/
Here’s a word of advice for ya Bill Shatner, get your facts straight before lashing out at someone. Do yourself a favor and stop whining about things in your videoblogs, go back to doing priceline commercials and writing Star Trek books, the more you bitch about things in your videoblogs with your hot looking daughter, you’re looking like an egomaniac. Don’t take the high road, Bill Shat.
Kev
William Shatner himself responds back to JJ Abrams on why Captain Kirk isn’t in the new Star Trek movie in a videoblog made by Bill and his daughter Liz.
Bill says he didn’t know Kirk was written a cameo and Bill said JJ never asked him to be in it. Bill also explains how he already brought Captain Kirk to life in one of his novels (“The Return” pictured above, that’s the book Bill is referring to, the book is a sequel to “Star Trek: Generations” movie). Bill explains that it was easy to bring Captain Kirk back to life while JJ said it was difficult to do. Bill has nothing against JJ Abrams as he likes JJ as a director and respects him as a person. Bill just feels dissapointed that he isn’t in the new film.
So there you have it. See the video below. Bill’s daughter Liz is very cute looking, she definitely looks like she’s in a legal age, I would say Liz is around her late 20’s, early 30’s, definitely a little around my age I would say. I could date someone like her.
Kev
The “Star Trek” XI helmer JJ Abrams finally opens up on the real reason why William Shatner will not appear in the new upcoming Star Trek film to reprise his role as the adult James T. Kirk. The young James T. Kirk is played by Chris Pine.
JJ said he and the film makers has written a short cameo for Shatner in a quick flashback scene, but Shatner did not want a cameo. He wanted to be in throughout the entire film and be the leading role, he also wanted the film to be about the adult Captain Kirk. The film makers had already planned that they wanted the cast focused on the younger generation of Trek.
Plus, Captain James T. Kirk died at the end of “Star Trek: Generations” and they couldn’t come up with any possible way to bring the character back to life, so they just moved on without the adult Kirk. The adult Spock will be in the new Trek movie, but not Kirk.
More on it here:
http://www.joblo.com/jj-explains-no-shatner
While I’m sure everyone wants to see William Shatner back in the new Star Trek movie, I would agree that it’s a good idea to keep Kirk out. I want to see the adult Spock played by Leonard Nimoy be the star here without William Shatner hogging the spotlight. The movie will do fine in box office without William Shatner. Spock still being played by Nimoy is all we need.
I mean, it wasn’t easy for the writers to figure out how to bring Spock back to life to make the character return in “Star Trek III: The Search For Spock”, the same it would be for Captain Kirk. There’s no sense of wasting years and years of hard work trying to figure out ways to bring Kirk back. So the writers of the new Trek movie had no choice but to move on without the adult Kirk and just focus on the young one.
Kev
If you’re expecting William Shatner to attend George Takei’s and Brad Altman’s gay wedding for the Shat to witness them get hitched in person, don’t count on it. It’s very unlikely that George Takei is going to invite the Shat to the wedding. Takei explained many times in interviews on TV that he had a fallen out with the Shat, in other words, not getting along with each other. The Shat still supports Takei by sending him wedding wishes even though he knows he won’t be invited.
More on it here:
http://www.accesshollywood.com/article/9808/william-shatner-sends-wedding-wishes-to-george-takei/
It’s good to see Shat still being supportive of George.
If you think William Shatner is a super nice guy with a wild sense of humor, in reality, I’m sure he is a complicated and difficult guy to get along with.
After Shat whining about not being in “Star Trek XI” for months and months, just shows it.
Kev
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