First Images Of Zachary Quinto As Spock

JFX Online is the first to post photos of young Spock on line for the upcoming Star Trek movie. For fans of the show 'Heroes', you might recognize Zachary Quinto who plays the villain Sylar. But for the latest installment of the Star Trek franchise, he will play one of the most popular characters on the show, Spock. JFX also has other photos, some with minor spoiler locations, so if you're interested hit the jump.

Star Trek is set to hit theaters on Christmas 2008.

Sylar To Play Spock?

Rumor mill has started up concerning the upcoming Star Trek XI movie. It appears that Zachary Quinto is in final negotiations to play "Spock" in the movie that is set in the academy days of the original series. If you're a fan of the TV series "Heros" you might recognize Quinto as the evil character "Sylar".

Leonard Nimoy is also rumored to make a cameo in the movie but no word if he will play an old "Spock" or an entirely different character.

J.J. Abrams is directing and should hit theaters Christmas 2008.
Hit the jump to read more. [Mania]

And The New Captain Kirk Is........

Alright my friends, I'm finally done with two soul sucking all day meetings that were mandatory, so now I can get back to what's really important, geek stuff.

It looks like J.J. Abrams has rounded out the crew of the Enterprise for the next Star Trek movie. And it looks like Chris Pine will play young James T. Kirk for the reboot movie of this franchise. So the cast as of today is:

Zachary Quinto-Young Spock

Leonard Nimoy- Old Spock

Eric Bana-Nero

Simon Pegg-Young Scotty

Anton Yelchin-Young Chekov

Zoe Saldana-Young Uhura

John Cho-Young Sulu

Rumor of Karl Urban playing "Young Bones" is still unconfirmed.
Star Trek is due in theaters on Christmas day 2008.

Thanks to Mania for this information.

Eric Bana Battles Kirk In Next Star Trek Movie

JJ Abrams is rounding out his cast for the next installment of the Star Trek movie franchise, this time casting the villain who will face off with the younger version of Captain Kirk. Eric Bana of "Hulk" and "Troy" fame will play Nero, which rumor has that he may be a romulan.

Bana will join the cast Zachary Quinto (Young Spock), Zoe Saldana(Young Uhura) and Leonard Nimoy(Old Spock), and Anton Yelchin (Chekov). No word on who will play Kirk and Scotty, but production is scheduled for November.

Star Trek is due out on Christmas day 2008.

[Mania]

Anton Yelchin Is Checkov In New Star Trek Movie

The casting of the 11th Star Trek movie is coming together, and J.J Abrams has already found his Spock. And now it looks like he's found his Checkov with the casting of Russian-born Anton Yelchin. Yelchin will play a younger Checkov in the new movie, and no word if the original Checkov Walter Koenig will be in the movie as the older version of Checkov. Casting is on-going in New York and London for the remaining spots of Kirk, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, and Scotty.

Read more after the jump. Thanks to Hero Spy for this information.

Spock to the rescue!!!

With arcade gaming in danger of going the way of the dodo and multiple iconic arcades in jeopardy, Zachary Quinto appeared at Video West Arcade in Glendale, Calif., to take part in STRIDE gum's Save the Arcades campaign.

Quinto was on hand to raise awareness for the cause and keep the dream alive for gamers everywhere. He posed for photographs, interacted with employees and went head to head with local consumers on classic arcade games.

The event kicked off the Save the Arcades campaign, in which STRIDE is featuring profiles of four iconic arcades from around the country on its Save the Arcades website. Visitors to the site can play an arcade-style video game, with their points scored benefiting the featured arcade of their choice. At the end of the campaign, the arcade that has earned the most points, as determined by participating consumers, will be declared the winner and receive $25,000 courtesy of STRIDE gum.

To further kick off the campaign, STRIDE also recently saved an arcade. After STRIDE discovered that a Philadelphia-area arcade (Challenge Arcade) was within days of closing down, they decided to help by providing $10,000 to ensure that Challenge would stay in business.

[via SciFi Wire]

Uhura Cast & Plot For Star Trek XI?

The casting for the upcoming 'Star Trek XI' movie is slowly coming along. Rumor has it that JJ Abrams has offered Zoe Saldana (Haven, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) the part of Lt. Uhura of the original series.

Meanwhile, 'AICN' is reporting that they have the plot to the new movie. It could be bogus, but maybe not, so I'll just say that if it's not, spoiler alert. Stop reading if you don't want to know anymore about it. You've been warned.

Here's the plot summary/concept according to them:

A group of Romulans will reportedly go back in time to kill off James T. Kirk, and the elder Spock (to once again be played by Leonard Nimoy) must do what he can to prevent that incident and change the timelines back.

AICN is also saying... "The plan is to use this second timeline as a way of rebooting without erasing or ignoring canon. These new voyages of the Enterprise, they're taking place in whatever timeline starts with this story. ... It's basically the same solution Marvel Comics has in terms of publishing, the way they use their Ultimates line to reboot continuity."

Star Trek XI hits the theaters December 25, 2008.

Thanks to Mania for this information.