Simon Pegg to Play Scotty

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 12, 2007 @10:15AM from the take-ship-go-to-mum's-kill-phil-sorry dept.

In response to yesterday's casting news about Chris Pine possibly taking the captain's chair for the new Star Trek movie, apparently Simon Pegg will be playing the role of Scotty. Simon Pegg is known for his role as Shaun in Shaun of the Dead and more recently for his leading role in Hot Fuzz. "Pegg joins Zoe Saldana as Uhura, Anton Yelchin as Chekov, John Cho as Sulu and Zachary Quinto as Spock in the film which reportedly, and logically, 'chronicles the early days of the Enterprise crew.' Leonard Nimoy will also put in an appearance, while Eric Bana signed up this week as the movie's villain, Nero."

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Re:English Scotty??? by coaxial · 2007-10-12 11:46 · Score: 0, Redundant

Yeah, no one can play a Scotsman like that Canadian James Doohan huh?
Re:English Scotty??? by TobascoKid · 2007-10-12 12:23 · Score: 0, Redundant

Mel Gibson is American. http://imdb.com/name/nm0000154/bio

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Re:English Scotty??? by STrinity · 2007-10-12 12:31 · Score: 0, Redundant

As a Scotsman, I'm somewhat miffed that an Englishman is playing the role... This is almost as bad as Mel Gibson (an Ozzie) playing William Wallace for goodness sake!

Doohan was Canuckian, and Gibson's a Merkin.

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