William Shatner criticizes the Star Trek reboot movies’ use of Leonard Nimoy

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The Star Trek franchise may have been rebooted, starting with 2009’s J.J. Abrams-directed movie, but that doesn’t mean the Original Series was completely left behind. Leonard Nimoy’s Spock appeared in both 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Trek and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Trek Into Darkness as 'Spock Prime'. It’s a move that original Captain Kirk actor William Shatner has now criticized in a new int𒁃erview.

"Le💜onard Nimoy was in some of those films, but it was totally gratuitous," Shatner told the . "They just wanted to put Spock in there and I didn’t admire ✃that."

Shatner, though, would be open to his own return in the franchise on the big screen. "If they could come up with a way of putting a character I pla🎐yed in a movie where it functioned as a point in the movie [and] made the movie move along, I’d be delighted," he said.

For now, Star Trek’s movie future is looking fairly convoluted, even without Shatner. A new Star Trek movie, lined up for June 9, 2023, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:is in the works with J.J. Abrams as producer. It’s not yet known whether it’ll be a continuation of the 'Kelvin Timeline' of reboot movies with Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk and Zachary Quinto’s Spock &𝔉ndash; but that’s likely to be the case with Abrams onboard.

Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley, who is also working on an Alien TV series, 澳洲幸运🉐5开奖ꦦ号码历史查询:is developing a separate Star Trek movie.

He told : "W💯e’re not doing Kirk and we’re not doing Picard. It’s a start from scratch that then allows us to do what we did with Fargo, where for the ꧑first three hours you go, 'Oh, it really has nothing to do with the movie,' and then you find the money."

There was also the hotly anticipated connection between Star Trek and Quentin Tarantino. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:A script has been written, though any further news has yet to materialize. Star Chris Pine, though, told "that to have a Quentin take on it would be treme🐷ndously interesting and entertꦰaining."

On the TV side of things, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Trek Discovery season 4, spinoff Strange New Worlds, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Picard season 2 are all currently in various stages of development and prod꧒uction.

Find out what’s coming to a cinema near you this year with our comprehensive rundown of 2021’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:movie release dates.

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