{"id":103,"date":"2007-10-12T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=103"},"modified":"2018-12-08T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T20:04:36","slug":"simon-pegg-to-play-scotty-in-new-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/12\/simon-pegg-to-play-scotty-in-new-star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Pegg To Play Scotty In New STAR TREK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what can only be possibly described as the best casting news of perhaps the entire year, Simon Pegg has been given the role of Engineer Montgomery &#8220;Scotty&#8221; Scott in J. J. Abrams upcoming <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> franchise reboot.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Pegg will be joining Eric Bana (as a villian named Nero), Anton Yelchin (as Pavel Chekov), Zachary Quinto (as the young Mr. Spock), Zoe Saldana (as Uhura) and Leonard Nimoy (the only original <strong>Trek<\/strong> actor returning, reprising his role as, presumably the older, Mr. Spock) in a story set during legendary captain James T. Kirk&#8217;s early years at Starfleet Academy. Production is slated to begin next month, with the movie landing in theaters Christmas 2008.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The film is Abrams attempt to reboot the <strong>Trek<\/strong> franchise for Paramount, which after 40 years, has lost some favor with the casual audience outside of its rabid fanbase. For my part, I gave up on regular doses of <em>Star Trek<\/em> as part of my television diet back around the first season of the <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> series. Bloom was long off <em>Trek<\/em> creator Gene Roddenberry&#8217;s rose and I had moved on to other things, only briefly checking now and then on the franchise, only to confirm for myself that nothing new or exciting was happening there. (Though I did find what I saw of the final season of <em>Enterprise<\/em> to be some of the best <em>Trek<\/em> in years, despite its terrible theme song. But that is really damning with faint praise.) <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Up until this news, I had only been looking forward to this latest attempt at reigniting the public&#8217;s interest in <em>Star Trek<\/em> with only the mildest of interest. But the casting of Pegg, which comes as a surprise as he is someone I hadn&#8217;t even thought of for the part, has raised my interest quite a bit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121106175210\/http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117973913?refCatId=13\">Variety<\/a><\/em>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">In what can only be possibly described as the best casting news of perhaps the entire year, Simon Pegg has been given the role of Engineer Montgomery &#8220;Scotty&#8221; Scott in J. J. Abrams upcoming Star <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/12\/simon-pegg-to-play-scotty-in-new-star-trek\/\" title=\"Simon Pegg To Play Scotty In New STAR TREK\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[21,3,8,35],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-casting","8":"tag-coming-soon","9":"tag-remake","10":"tag-star-trek"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}