Comments on: Tyler Perry Cast In Star Trek

By: sfsilver

sfsilver — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:38:39 +0000

It has the feel of a bald attempt at luring in a market segment to me. Tyler Perry’s acting abilities are on par with hundreds of third rate actors, his rabidly loyal (if clearly not very discriminating) audience is huge though. They’re also not the obvious target audience that comes to mind for Sci-Fi in general and Star Trek specifically.

Sounds like a marketing gimmick.

Hopefully the part is very small.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:15:58 +0000

So is he going to play two characters? Head of the Starfleet Academy and Whoopi Goldberg’s character?

Just kidding.

By: AjaxLou

AjaxLou — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:13:55 +0000

Further to this over at TrekMovie.com:
“Back in September TrekMovie.com first reported that Kirk’s famed solution to the Kobayashi Maru ‘no win-scenario simulation’ would be seen in the new Star Trek. Just this week TrekMovie was tipped off about a role for Perry as well as the post-Kobayashi Academy scene. But UGO beat us to the punch while we awaited confirmation and more details (which is now moot). The only things to add are that this scene was probably shot in the Long Beach City Council chamber and that there is also some kind of student protest over Kirk not being expelled and actually being ‘promoted.’ The protest might be part of the same scene described at UGO or a different scene shot in the LB Council Chamber (standing in for a hall at Starfleet Academy). In Star Trek II Kirk noted that after being caught for cheating he got a commendation for original thinking. It is possible the source was talking about a commendation instead of a promotion, or maybe Kirk was also promoted.

UGO UPDATE:
UGO have run another story noting this TrekMovie.com story and our adding the Long Beach City Council to the mix. They now note:

Based on what my source told me (and for reasons that will become obvious in my next Star Trek scoop which I’ll post later today) I think that this scene happens further ahead in the screen story than the moments I spoke about yesterday. In any case, it looks like this location will be seen at least twice in the movie.

Unfortunately in a subsequent report UGO stated they have decided to not post the new ’scoop’ in order to protect their source.

UPDATE: How Kirk Cheats?
Aint it Cool has a new rumor regarding how Kirk beats the Kobayashi Maru. Their ‘untested source’ claims Kirk “persuades a chick he is banging to alter the simulator so that it is winnable.” AICN also note that it could be total BS so take with a big grain of salt.”

By: Kristina

Kristina — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:12:20 +0000

This has got to be the biggest WTF casting announcement since…ever.

By: RonSalon

RonSalon — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:10:19 +0000

The real Chris wrote: “I really wanna see a trailer.”

ME TOO!

By: chris (the real one)

chris (the real one) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:51:47 +0000

….i must say im not a big fan of mr. perry…..props for what he is doing, creating positive black movies….but that same formula he follows is getting old for me…..madea makes me laugh a little bit but overall she seems very stupid and stereotypical..

any way hes not a bad actor (or a great one) so it should be interesting to see how this turns out….never been a huge fan of trek but i really wanna see a trailer