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New ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Movie Title Announced

‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ will open in theaters on March 3rd, 2023.

Things have been very quiet on the ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ front despite a new movie having been in the works for a while.

Now, though, we finally know what the new movie will be called: ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’.

‘Dungeons and Dragons’, of course, is the game designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and first brought to shelves in 1974. It works by gathering a group of players who create characters – warriors, elves, dwarves, wizards etc. – and sending them on a fantasy quest run by a Dungeon Master.

They explore dangerous locales and battle monsters, all using dice to determine the outcome of clashes or other situations. Players earn experience points (or XP) to level up.

The game has a patchy history of screen adaptations. Many will warmly remember the 1980s cartoon series, which saw a group of kids swept to a fantasy land filled with wizards, dragons and warriors.

Audiences were less happy with the 2000 movie, directed by Courtney Solomon, with Jeremy Irons as a tyrant named Profion looking to overthrow an otherwise peaceful kingdom ruled by Thora Birch’s Empress Savina. It was a notorious flop, though it did generate a couple of sequels, 2005 TV Movie ‘Wrath of the Dragon God’ and 2012’s ‘The Book of Vile Darkness’, which went straight to home entertainment.

Thanks to the rise in popularity of all things geeky (not to mention a big use of ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ by the kids of ‘Stranger Things’), Hasbro – which has been working with Paramount and other studios to mine the games company’s various properties – pushed more than the ‘Dungeons’ project back into development, including a planned, expansive TV universe under the purview of Rawson Marshall Thurber.

Photo of Rawson Marshall Thurber Courtesy of Twitter

Though Hasbro’s key deal is with Paramount these days, Warner Bros. had the ‘Dungeons’ rights for a while and, upon learning that Hasbro had partnered with Universal for a movie from ‘Fast & Furious’ scripting stalwart Chris Morgan, threw its weight behind a more obscure game created by Gary Gygax called ‘Chainmail’, hiring ‘Wrath of the Titans’/’Red Riding Hood’ writer David Leslie to adapt it. That got bogged down in a rights battle until Warners was able to work it out.

Nothing came of that effort, though, and Hasbro, under its Paramount deal, flashed the greenlight for a movie from John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the directors of ‘Game Night’.

The directors co-wrote the latest movie with and been busy making the new movie, working alongside co-writer Michael Gilio. The latter had been in talks to direct the movie at one point, as had ‘The Lego Batman’s Chris McKay, and the pair are credited with the movie’s story.

Quite what that plot is remains locked in a treasure chest for now, though a filing for the movie with the US Copyright office last year listed the following basic synopsis: “An ex-Harper turned thief escapes from prison with his partner, a female barbarian, and reunites with a no-talent wizard and a druid new to their team in an effort to rob the cheating conman who stole all their loot from the heist that landed them behind bars, and used it to install himself as the Lord of Neverwinter. Only the traitor is allied with a powerful Red Wizard who has something far more sinister in store.”

Whether that is the actual storyline remains to be seen, though we do at least know who is starring in the new movie – Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant are all part of the cast.

‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ will roll into theaters on March 3rd, 2023.
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April 22, 2022
Chris Pine Talks ‘The Contractor’

Chris Pine in ‘The Contractor.’ Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

Opening in theaters and On-Demand beginning April 1st is the new action movie ‘The Contractor,’ from director Tarik Saleh (‘Westworld’).

The movie stars Chris Pine (‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit‘) as James Harper, a discharged U.S. Special Forces sergeant who joins a private contracting organization. While overseas on a covert mission, he must evade those trying to kill him and make his way back home safely to his family.

The film reunites Pine with his ‘Hell or High Water‘ co-star Ben Foster, and also features Gillian Jacobs (‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2‘), Eddie Marsan (‘The World’s End‘), and Kiefer Sutherland (‘24‘).

Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Chris Pine about his work on ‘The Contractor.’
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You can read our full interview with Chris Pine below or watch a video of our interviews with Pine and director Tarik Saleh about ‘The Contractor’ by clicking on the player above.

Moviefone: To begin with, what was your first reaction when you read the script for ‘The Contractor?’

Chris Pine: I was really moved by it. I thought it was a really poetic and sensitive take on a genre piece. It’s really a character study that’s masquerading as an action thriller film. I thought it was a great opportunity to have something that was highly commercial and accessible, but also required people to really think and that intrigued me.

MF: Can you talk about the research you did to play this role?

CP: I spent about three months with a guy, Chris Dunn, out in the desert here in Los Angeles, working, doing close quarters combat and weapons training. I met with Bert Kuntz, who was our technical advisor, who’s a green beret and medic. I read a ton of books and investigated the script with Bert to make sure that things seemed real. That was what I did.

MF: What do you think your character would say is the most important aspect of his life?

CP: That’s a difficult question. I think at first it would be family, God, and country. But by the end of the film it’s just family.

MF: There is a lot of action in the film. Do you do your own stunts and how do you prepare for those scenes?

CP: I generally do everything that I can, that the insurance company will allow me to do. I had an incredible stunt double with whom I’ve worked for many years. But everything is different. It depends on how they want to shoot it. It depends on the time we have. It depends on so many things, but this one was a particularly brutal shoot.

(L to R) Chris Pine and Ben Foster in ‘The Contractor.’ Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

MF: You reunite with your ‘Hell or High Water’ co-star Ben Foster for this movie. What do you like about working with him, and what is the relationship like between your two characters?

CP: It’s always great working with Ben. I wish I could work with Ben on most things I do. It’s nice to go to work with someone whom you have great respect, who you like and who gets the work the same way you do and wants to achieve the same things. We have a shorthand. Obviously, we didn’t have much time on this film. We didn’t have much money. We didn’t have an incredible amount of rehearsal time. So, to get to go to work, get to set, and hit the ground running was really important.

MF: Were you involved with choosing Tarik Saleh to direct this movie?

CP: Yes. 100%. I’d seen ‘The Nile Hilton Incident’ and I absolutely loved it. It’s an Egyptian police noir, starring Fares Fares, who shows up in our film. I think he’s incredibly talented. I heard that he was interested in the script. We met in New York very briefly and then we were off to the races.

MF: What was he like to work with on set?

CP: Tarik is wonderful. He’s incredibly collaborative. He trusted me a great deal. We really just picked this thing apart as my much as we could to figure out the emotional arc and through line of it. It was tricky work and it wouldn’t have worked unless we had open minds. It took me, Tarik, Ben and everyone involved trying to say, “Well, how does this work? Does it, does this make sense?”

Director Tarik Saleh on set of ‘The Contractor.’ Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

MF: Finally, what do you hope audiences take away from seeing the film?

CP: Really this is a story about one man dealing with the effects of his world being turned upside down. We would never see this man losing his job, losing his pension, losing his healthcare and going to do anything else but being a military contractor. That’s the hard thing. Here’s a guy that is, in terms of the amount of money they spend on one of these highly trained warriors, it’s millions of dollars. They are a weapon.

After a twenty some odd years of service as a highly trained weapon, you then get out into the real world and if you’re facing financial troubles, you don’t have enough time to get yourself out of the muck by working a normal job. Whereas you can go and make really incredible money doing something you’re passionate about that you’re highly trained and qualified for. It seemed to make a lot of logical sense, making that move for James.
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March 31, 2022
‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Finds a Captain Kirk

Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk of the Paramount+ original series ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Photo: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved.

Even though ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ promises to show us the adventures of the USS Enterprise before the time of the original ‘Star Trek’ series, it appears that the most famous ‘Trek’ starship cannot entirely do without its most iconic captain. Yes, the show has now cast someone to play James Tiberius Kirk.

Paul Wesley, who might still be best known for playing Stefan and various other characters during his run on ‘The Vampire Diaries’, is the latest actor to inherit the role once made famous by William Shatner.

Of course, these days, there are also audiences who identify Chris Pine from the J.J. Abrams movies as Kirk, though Shatner will probably remain the most recognizable example.

“Paul is an accomplished actor, an astonishing presence and a welcome key addition to the show,” executive producer Alex Kurtzman and showrunners/executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers said in a joint statement. “Like all of us, he is a life-long ‘Star Trek’ fan and we are excited by his interpretation of this iconic role.”

Quite how Kirk will fit into the story is being held behind deflector shields for now, but here’s the wrinkle: he’s not showing up until Season 2, which kicked off shooting shortly after the series was renewed in January.

Season 1, meanwhile, will still focus on Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, who was the commander of the ship in the original ‘Star Trek’ pilot ‘The Cage’, famously rejected by the network and re-tooled into two-part episode ‘The Menagerie’, which showed Pike’s fate to be critically injured and forced to spend time in a life-support mobility device.

That tragic destiny also played into Pike’s story in Season 2 of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’, where he briefly took command of the ship and, upon learning of what lay ahead, decided to quit Starfleet.

Yet because watching him ride horses and hang out in a wooden cabin doesn’t exactly scream “thrilling space adventure”, he’ll be pulled back to duty for this first run of ‘Strange New Worlds,’ which involves a spatial anomaly initially, but seems to promise more episodic storytelling, “alien/planet of the week” in keeping with the classic ‘Trek’ shows.

Anson Mount as Captain Pike on Paramount+’s ‘Star Trek: Discovery.’

Mount’s Pike is joined by Ethan Peck, who returns as the younger Mr. Spock (the science officer at this point on the Enterprise, and Rebecca Romijn as first officer Number One (whose actual name we’ve since learned is Una Chin-Riley).

The rest of the crew is a mixture of established characters played by new actors and team members we’ve not yet met in the history of ‘Trek’.

Babs Olusanmokun plays M’Benga: A human doctor aboard the Enterprise, who was portrayed by Booker Bradshaw in a couple of episodes of the original series.

Celia Rose Gooding has the iconic role of Nyota Uhura, who oversaw communications on Kirk’s version of the Enterprise but is here seen as a cadet. Nichelle Nichols most famously portrayed her, though in the Abrams reboot, it’s Zoe Saldana.

Jess Bush is Nurse Christine Chapel, the character Majel Barrett played after Number One was rejected following that original ‘Trek’ pilot.

Christina Chong appears as La’an Noonien-Singh, a relative of Kirk nemesis Khan Noonien Singh, who the Enterprise crew won’t encounter until Kirk’s era in charge, so it’ll be interesting to see how she fits into the story.

Bruce Horak is Hemmer, An Aenar officer part of the albino subspecies of the normally blue Andorians, who are also usually blind. And Horak makes Trek history by being the first partially blind actor to star on one of the shows.

Finally, we have Lt. Erica Ortegas, about whom very little is known right now.

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ will launch on Paramount+ on May 5 with the first episode, and releases episodes weekly.

Teaser art for the Paramount+ original series ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Photo: Paramount+ © 2022 CBS Interactive. All Rights Reserved.

March 16, 2022
‘All the Old Knives’ Trailer

(L to R) Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton in Prime Video’s ‘All the Old Knives.’

Digging through past relationships can be a thorny, emotional prospect in the best of circumstances. But when you’re part of the CIA, and the romance is intertwined with a mission gone tragically, treacherously wrong? Well, that’s surely enough to buy a therapist a new house.

No therapy is seemingly involved in the story for ‘All the Old Knives’, which has its first trailer online. Not least because the main characters – Chris Pine’s Henry Pelham and Thandiwe Newton’s Celia Harrison – are, or in her case, were, intelligence operatives who can’t really go spilling their secrets to some stranger, no matter how many certificates they have on their wall or how much confidentiality they promise.

The new thriller, directed by ‘Borg/McEnroe’s Janus Metz, adapts Olen Steinhauer’s 2015 novel. And, unusually, the writer himself worked up the script. Though he does have some experience – he created successful CIA series ‘Berlin Station’.

‘All the Old Knives’ finds him back in espionage territory, as the story follows what happens when the CIA discovers that one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives during a particularly tricky hostage situation on a plane six years previously in Vienna.

Veteran operative Pelham is assigned to root out the mole from among his former officemates at the agency’s Vienna station. His investigation takes him from Austria to England to California, where he is reunited with his one-time colleague and ex-lover Harrison.

The pair are forced to blur the lines between profession and passion in a tale of global espionage, moral ambiguity, and deadly betrayal. And not everyone will leave the reunion alive…
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This latest spy outing for Pine (who starred as Jack Ryan in 2014) also has the actor working as an executive producer. Also in the cast are Jonathan Pryce (having quite the spy moment between this and his role as a retired MI5 agent in Apple TV+’s upcoming ‘Slow Horses’ series), and Laurence Fishburne, who has no little experience in on-screen espionage with the likes of ‘Five Fingers’ and ‘Bad Company’.

And that’s not all, as the ensemble also includes Gala Gordon, Corey Johnson, Colin Stinton and Ahd Kamel.

There’s a definite John le Carré feel to this one, with characters trying to give up the life while others are still deep within it. That’s not surprising, since Steinhauer’s novels have been favorably compared to the spy master’s work.

Yet despite a seemingly compelling story, the movie has had some issues on its journey to the screen: Kate Winslet and Idris Elba were at one point seriously considering the lead roles, with Neil Burger attached to direct before they all moved on to other things. And Michelle Williams was starring opposite Pine until development delays meant she didn’t have time on her schedule.

You’ll be able to watch ‘All the Old Knives’ on limited theatrical release and via Prime Video on April 8.

(L to R) Chris Pine, Thandiwe Newton, Laurence Fishburne, and Jonathan Pryce in Prime Video’s ‘All the Old Knives.’
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March 3, 2022
Chris Pine and Co. Back for New ‘Star Trek’ Movie

(L to R) Anton Yelchin, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, John Cho and Zoe Saldana in ‘Star Trek’ (2009). Courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

Ever since ‘Star Trek Beyond’ failed to launch at the box office, the big screen flagship of the ‘Trek’ franchise has been lingering in Spacedock, unsure which course to chart. Now, though it appears that Paramount is ready to engage the warp engines again, with Chris Pine and the rest of the current crew busy making deals to return.

The news comes as part of Paramount’s Investors Day presentation, in which it unleashed enough news to choke the Doomsday Machine, including an early season 2 renewal for the ‘Halo’ TV series (which is only just about to debut), lots of future ‘SpongeBob’ movies and more ‘South Park’.

Yet word on a return for ‘Star Trek’ crew who first boarded the USS Enterprise in J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot of the franchise is perhaps the most exciting revelation.

It looked for a while as though Pine’s Captain Kirk, along with Zachary Quinto’s Spock, Zoe Saldana’s Uhura, Karl Urban’s Dr. McCoy, John Cho’s Sulu and Simon Pegg’s Scotty might never return to the final frontier, but Paramount is now going at full speed to put them on a new mission.

Abrams himself made the announcement. “We are thrilled to say that we are hard at work on a new ‘Star Trek’ film that will be shooting by the end of the year that will be featuring our original cast and some new characters that I think are going to be really fun and exciting and help take ‘Star Trek’ into areas that you’ve just never seen before,” he said. “We’re thrilled about this film, we have a bunch of other stories that we’re talking about that we think will be really exciting, so can’t wait for you to see what we’re cooking up. But until then, live long and prosper.”

(L to R) Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine in ‘Star Trek’ (2009). Courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

Yet Abrams won’t – as with ‘Beyond’ – be directing (though he’ll produce via his Bad Robot Company). Instead, ‘WandaVision’s Matt Shakman has that job, and he’ll work from a script by ‘Avatar 2’s Josh Friedman and Shakman’s ‘WandaVision’ colleague Cameron Squires. Their screenplay will be based on an earlier draft by Lindsey Beer and Geneva Robertson-Dworet.

As for what’ll happen in the movie? That’s being kept behind the shields for now, though it’s unlikely to be the rumored time-travel concept that would have seen Kirk meet his dad, played (briefly) in Abrams’ original movie by Chris Hemsworth. Actors’ pay deals reportedly scuttled that idea, though it could be resurrected. (Does anyone have a Genesis device to hand?)

And while they appear to be drifting in a nebula for now, the planned expansions of the ‘Trek’ movie universe by ‘Fargo’s Noah Hawley and cult director Quentin Tarantino are still out there, waiting for their chance.

‘Star Trek’s fortunes have certainly turned around of late, with the TV side of things expanding exponentially, and now some positive forward movement on the theatrical end. Of course, any new movie will have to deal with the tragic loss of Anton Yelchin, who played Chekov in the previous three adventures, and hopefully the team will go the respectful route and have his character off on another mission rather than re-cast.

Still, with luck, a late 2022 shooting start means we could have a new ‘Star Trek’ movie beaming into theaters by the end of 2023. That’s news to even make Spock giggle.
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February 15, 2022
Rawson Marshall Thurber producing ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ TV series

Photo of Rawson Marshall Thurber Courtesy of Twitter

If you were to ask us who might be put in charge of a ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ TV series, we’d probably have picked noted fans of the game Vin Diesel or Joe Manganiello. Hasbro and production studio eOne have instead gone for someone with more behind-the-scenes experience, hiring ‘Skyscraper’ and ‘Red Notice’ director Rawson Marshall Thurber to oversee a new, live-action adaptation of the fantasy roleplaying game.

The companies are looking to build something along the lines of ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Lord of the Rings’ and are hopeful that whatever Marshall cooks up will lead to a universe that blends TV and movies. The show doesn’t yet have a home, but with Thurber’s deal at Netflix, you can certainly imagine the streaming service showing an interest.

“We don’t want it to just be one show, so we are building out, developing out a multi-pronged approach for television, a number of scripted shows and unscripted,” eOne’s Michael Lombardo told Deadline last year.

Thurber is also excited, tweeting about the new opportunity and his history as a player. He’ll write and direct the pilot for the show, but no details were released beyond that.

Once the purview of a nerdier corner of pop culture (which has since moved much more mainstream), ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ is the game designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and first brought to shelves in 1974. It works by gathering a group of players who create characters – warriors, elves, dwarves, wizards etc. – and sending them on a fantasy quest run by a Dungeon Master.

They explore dangerous locales and battle monsters, all using dice to determine the outcome of clashes or other situations. Players earn experience points or XP to level up.

The game has been adapted for screens before, most notably in the 1980s cartoon series that saw a group of kids transported to a fantasy realm by a rollercoaster and being forced to fight for their lives and their way home.
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In 2000, Courtney Solomon directed a movie based on the original game concept, starring Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch and Marlon Wayans. It was castigated by critics and proved to be a huge flop at the box office.

A new movie is now in post-production, directed by ‘Vacation’ and ‘Game Night’ duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, starring the likes of Chris Pine, Justice Smith, Michelle Rodriguez and ‘Bridgerton’ breakout Regé-Jean Page.
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Not much is known about the tone of that one – there’s a chance it could be more along the lines of ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’, which had fun with the concept while keeping the peril and stakes intact. It’ll be in theaters via Paramount on March 3 next year.

Thurber, meanwhile, is also writing the scripts for two sequels to last year’s action-adventure comedy ‘Red Notice’, which starred Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot.
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February 1, 2022
Chris Pine to Play John Dean, Nixon Lawyer Turned Watergate Whistleblower

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A pivotal figure of the Watergate scandal is getting the big screen treatment, with Chris Pine set to play lawyer-turned-whistleblower John Dean in a new feature.

Variety has the scoop on the project, which chronicles the political exploits of Dean, who served as White House Council under President Richard Nixon from July 1970 through August 1973 — right at the heart of the scandal that imploded Nixon’s presidency. The film is set up at Amazon Studios, and Dean himself will serve as an executive producer on the feature.

According to Variety, Dean was known as the “connoisseur of cover-ups,” and “became a crucial Nixon whistle-blower by offering testimony that implicated the president in the historic cover-up” of the break-in at the Democratic committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, during Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign. In exchange, Dean pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, and received a sentence of four months of house arrest. He remains in the public eye today as an author of numerous books and a political commentator, and has been outspoken against the Republican Party and the current administration.

The script for the film — currently untitled — is being penned by Evan Parter, who Variety notes is an “Up-and-coming screenwriter … whose scripts have appeared more than once on the annual Black List.” Amazon scooped up the flick after hearing only the pitch, so expect production to take some time as the film comes together.

[via: Variety]

August 19, 2019
Chris Pine to Play Walter Cronkite in JFK Assassination Drama ‘Newsflash’

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Chris Pine is about to become the most trusted voice in America.

The “Wonder Woman” and “Star Trek” star is attached to play iconic CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite in the drama “Newsflash,” according to Deadline.

“Newsflash” takes place on November 22, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Texas. The movie looks in depth at the day that television network news came of age, and that Cronkite became the most trusted TV newsman of America.

Mark Ruffalo is attached to play Don Hewitt, Cronkite’s producer, who helped navigate the chaos in an unimaginably tragic day in America.

The movie will also feature Dan Rather, then a young reporter who happened to be in Texas and was among the journalists who frantically dug for truth after reports went over the wire that gunfire rang out in vicinity of the president’s motorcade.

No director is attached yet.

August 2, 2019
15 Things You Never Knew About ‘Star Trek’ on its 10th Anniversary

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It’s now been ten years since Paramount Pictures rebooted one of the greatest sci-fi franchises of all time and gave us a brand new “Star Trek.” This film helped reinvigorate the franchise and made stars out of the likes of Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana. While we continue the wait for a a fourth movie that may never happen, enjoy this fun trivia about the making of this epic reboot.

1. The origins of the reboot can be traced as far back as 1968, when “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry announced at a fan convention his plans to create a movie prequel detailing the formation of the Enterprise crew.

2. Before this film materialized, Paramount was developing a different reboot called “Star Trek: The Beginning.” This version would have been set during the Earth-Romulan War and centered around Kirk’s ancestor Tiberius Chase.

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3. The crew relied on an abandoned Budweiser plant factories to depict the cluttered engine rooms of the Enterprise.

4. John Cho was initially reluctant to play the role of Hikaru Sulu, as Cho is Korean American and Sulu is Japanese American. However, original Sulu actor George Takei encouraged Cho to take the part.

5. In certain scenes, the special effects team had to completely reanimate Eric Bana and Leonard Nimoy‘s mouths. That’s because Bana severely injured his teeth and Nimoy’s dialogue was changed during the older Spock’s first encounter with Kirk.

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6. Kirk is shown eating an apple during the Kobayashi Maru training sequence. This mirrors a scene from “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” where an older Kirk eats an apple while recounting the story of that infamous scandal. According to director J.J. Abrams, this homage was completely accidental.

7. Winona Ryder was cast as Spock’s mother Amanda, despite being only six years older than Zachary Quinto. This is because the film was originally supposed to include an early scene of Amanda giving birth to her son.

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8. “Star Trek: The Next Generation” star Wil Wheaton provided voiceover dialogue for many of the Romulans on Nero’s ship.

9. Karl Urban‘s Dr. McCoy mentions joining Starfleet after going through a nasty divorce. This pays homage to an unused story from writer D.C. Fontana, which was originally written for Season 3 of the TV series.

10. There’s a reason Nero is MIA for so long in between traveling into the past and battling the Enterprise crew. A deleted subplot reveals that Nero and his crew were captured by Klingons and imprisoned for several decades.

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11. IDW Publishing released several tie-in comic books that flesh out the events surrounding the film. 2009’s “Star Trek: Countdown” explores the events that led to Nero’s journey into the past and features Captain Picard as a major character. 2010’s “Star Trek: Nero” expands on the movie’s deleted Klingon subplot.

12. This turned out to be the final “Star Trek” film Majel Roddenberry worked on. Barrett provided the voice of Starfleet’s computers dating back to the original TV series. She passed way in December 2008, two weeks after completing her dialogue for the reboot.

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13. A lucky few fans were given a surprise early screening in April 2019. The Alamo Drafthouse advertised a screening of “The Wrath of Khan” with a special 10-minute preview of the reboot. Instead, Nimoy and the film’s writers interrupted the film and asked attendees if they’d rather watch the new “Star Trek” instead.

14. Paramount initially planned for a fourth film in the reboot series to follow 2016’s “Star Trek Beyond,” one which would bring back Chris Hemsworth as George Kirk. However, the film was canceled in January 2019 after negotiations broke down with Pine and Hemsworth.

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15. “Star Trek” may be getting rebooted all over again. Quentin Tarantino has pitched his idea for a movie and has voiced an interest in directing after completing work on “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
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May 8, 2019
Sebastian Stan Takes Over for Chris Evans in ‘The Devil All the Time’

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The upcoming Netflix drama “The Devil All the Time” lost one “Captain America” star, but then gained another.

Chris Evans had to drop out of the film due to scheduling problems, and he has now been replaced by his frequent MCU co-star Sebastian Stan, Deadline reports. Taking the role puts Stan in a cast that also includes Tom Holland (yet another MCU star), Robert Pattinson, Jason Clarke, Mia Wasikowska, Riley Keough, and Bill Skarsgard.

“The Devil All the Time” is based on Donald Ray Polluck’s 2011 novel of the same name. The story centers on a man named Arvin Russell, following him from childhood to adulthood, as he encounters serial killers, corrupt law enforcement, and other unusual characters. Antonio Campos is directing the film from a script he adapted with Paulo Campos.

In addition to his work in several MCU films, Stan has starred in movies such as 2018’s “Destroyer,” 2017’s “I, Tonya,” and 2015’s “The Martian.” Some of his upcoming films include “The Last Full Measure,” “Monday,” and “Avengers: Endgame.”

“The Devil All the Time” is being produced by Randall Poster, Max Born, and Nine Stories’ Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker. Anne Marter and Jacob Jaffke are executive producing. The film does not yet have a release date.

[via: Deadline]

February 14, 2019