fellowshippers | Karl Urban in talks for McCoy in Star Trek XI

LOL! Does this mean you do not approve?

Sorry I'm so slow on your fic! I'm in school again! But I'm working on it!

Hi there! Don´t worry about the fic, I´m currently totally caught up in my (already second) new job, so not much time for writing. And as for Karl as McCoy - I do love the guy, he is hot, he is sexy and he is a fine actor and I don´t doubt that he could play any role he wants. But, just - hey! this is STAR TREK! I know that not everyone here is a trekkie, but for me Star Trek is just... Star Trek. I love my TOS, TNG and especially DS9, and I just can´t imagine a guy so hot and so slashable playing McCoy (might be because I don´t approve of Trek Slash, sorry). And did you know that they already have Eric Bana signed up to play the villain? I mean, seriously do the producer read our RPS slash too, or where do they get those ideas?
"sorry about the rant, but this is just THE topic for me"

Yes, I heard about Eric a few days ago! :D

This one is being made by J.J. Abrams, the guy who did Lost and I think did Buffy, so he might actually read our fanfics! He's fond of keeping current with what fans like. ;)

btw. where did you get this gorgeous pic in your icon? "stares" Is there somewhere a bigger original to be had? "makes room for a new PC wallpaper"

My icons are all listed with credit to their makers (this one is by

mrbnatural), but it appears to be taken from a Kingdom of Heaven screen capture of Balian.

I'm not certain if she has a full-size of this very one, but I know

teresabloom has a database with THOUSANDS of pictures, all organized into categories, where you might find it. I think she's got a category of Kingdom of Heaven Screen captures (or perhaps just a "screencaps" category and you can find it in there). Good luck!

What I meant to say was "the one you refer to is by MrBNatural" -- not the Paris/Hector one in the other comment.

No. I think he could do a good job with it. He's not just a grunting action-guy type. He's played other kinds of characters too -- check out Price of Milk, for example. And his Cupid in the Hercules and Xena series was really campy. If he can get the accent down, I think he'll be fine. And it'll certainly give the movie some nice eye candy. :)

Angie

Hi, I really don´t doubt Karls acting quality, as I wrote in a reply above, I do believe that he could play anyone he wants. It´s just...."sighs"... well, it might be more my personal view than anything else... For me Karl is the hot, slashable guy about whom I get to read in every second slash story and I do enjoy those! McCoy on the other side... at home in my bookshelf I have over 70 Star Trek novels. I´ve seen the movies, the series, been there done that. Star Trek is like a religion. Well, and you don´t mix religion and slash! :( Ah well....and they have Eric Bana signed up to play the villain! I mean, how will I be able to concentrate on Trek? And where are the good old times, when most of the Trek actors weren´t so goddammed good looking?! "sigh"

Well, just as a data point, I've been a Trek fan most of my life too. I played Star Trek on the playground when I was in first grade, which was when the original series was in first-run once a week on TV. I was a fanatical "Trekkie" as a teenager and collected all the early books (except the Blish adaptations -- I got a couple and they were awful, as though he was working from first draft scripts, ick) and other merchandise. I got a Star Trek belt buckle in like '75. And all my Star Trek stuff was Trek Classic -- Next Gen hadn't been invented yet and I've never gotten into any of the later series anywhere near as passionately as I got into the original. So I know what it's like to consider Star Trek to be your religion, especially the original series, although I'm not quite that fanatical now.

However, Star Trek is where slashfic was born. The whole "slash" terminology comes from the Kirk/Spock designation. You're certainly free to like or dislike whatever you want, and I'll smack anyone who says you "should" or "shouldn't" like something, but I doubt very much you're going to find a whole lot of agreement, certainly not among the female old-time Trek fans, that Star Trek shouldn't be slashed on principle. [wry smile]

And while you can probably find a lot of people who'll agree with you that Karl shouldn't be playing McCoy, most of the folks I've seen express that opinion just don't think he can do it because they see him as big-dumb-action dude. It'd be interesting to find out how many people are unhappy about Karl's casting solely on the basis that he's too hot and slashy [grin] but I doubt it'd be a very large group.

I don't know what to tell you, hon. Maybe the movie'll suck for other reasons and you'll be able to just skip it without feeling like you missed much? :)

Actually, it might. This is the eleventh movie, isn't it? Odd numbered Trek movies usually suck, so you might not have to agonize over whether or not to see it. ;)

Angie

Just out of curiosity, did you intentionally backdate this entry, or is this a strange LJ glitch? I'm in the process of tagging, and I'm a little confused as to why the entry shows up in the calendar for a month ago, but was obviously posted yesterday since this is recent news. :)

Hi, I didn´t backdate the entry, but it could have something to do with my PC, because I have some issues with proper date and time, so maybe it´s somehow related? "confused" Btw, sorry for not asking before, but I hope that it´s ok to make posts like this in here?

Ah, no problem, I just wanted to be sure it wasn't something I need to hound the help desk about. I know some computers are weird about that.

And yes, discussion entries are welcome as long as they relate to LOTR or its cast in some way. This community used to be more all-things-LOTR before it became mostly known as a fic comm, so its all good. :)

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