Last week, rumors began to rise about the cast of the next Star Trek film. Badass Digest published a report that there was a scene in Star Trek 3’s script involving William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, claiming that is a very plot-driven and integral scene. The reports remained rumors, with director Roberto Orci telling TrekMovie that he would not confirm nor deny the rumors to help keep his options open, and Shatner tweeting that he had not been approached about the role.
Shatner stated that Abrams did not want him to tell anyone about being contacted, and Shatner agreed. When Shatner returned from Australia, he realized “ It’s all over the internet that the director has held an interview and said they want Shatner and Nimoy to be in the next movie. I’ll bet you J.J.’s frothing at the mouth at this point. So the news is out that they have an idea that they want Leonard and myself… they might want Leonard and myself in it. But I would love to do it. But how do you get me fifty years later into the movie? I mean how do you rationalize it. I know it’s science fiction, but even I couldn't come up with an idea. So that’s the news on that.”
If the reports are true, this would be the first time that Shatner and Leonard Nimoy appear on screen together as Kirk and Spock since 1991’s Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and the first time Shatner would play Kirk since 1994’s Star Trek Generations.
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Oh and why was it JJ making the call? Orci to big to call Captain Kirk himself?