Best news yet to come out of the new Star Trek movie reboot. They’ve just landed one hell of an actor for their bad guy (always a key role), Eric Bana. Bana will play a villain named Nero, although at this point nothing is really known about him, or if he’ll be human, Romulan, Klingon or what.
Bana has shown over and over again that he is a major talent, and a little while ago we heard word that the studio really wanted a top notch name actor for the role of the bad guy… and man… they pulled it off. I never even had Eric Bana’s name cross my mind for a role in the film until I heard about this. GREAT choice.
There are many things they’ve been doing right for this new Star Trek movie (Rebooting the franchise, casting Zach Quinto as Spock, this movie with Eric Bana), but I STILL can’t get over the fact that once again they’re going back to the tired, done a million time plot device of “A problem with the timeline” story arch that worked great once, but has become a proverbial crutch for the Star Trek franchise the last decade and quite frankly I’m sick of it.
Time will tell, for today, things with Star Trek are on a high note. Landing Bana was a great move.
