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They just announced a new Star Trek movie with Spock and Kirk for next year. I am so excited!

apparently, robbie williams is due to be in it, it has all the robster boards laughing these past few days  :hihi:

Who is Robbie Williams?

He would be doing captain KIRK lol !!!! He now lives in LA and has for 3 years


Robbie Williams (born Robert Peter Williams on February 13, 1974) is a Grammy-nominated and fifteen time[1] BRIT Award-winning English singer/songwriter. He is also one of the few pop acts to have been nominated for the Mercury Prize.[2]

Williams' career began as a member of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to begin his solo career, the band having sold more than 25 million records. [3] Since then, Williams has sold more albums in the United Kingdom than any other British solo artist in history, [4] and has sold 53 million albums worldwide.[1] Williams has so far sold 70 million records (including singles) over the course of his career.[5]

Williams made it to The Guinness Book of World Records when 1.6 million tickets were sold in a single day shortly after he announced his World Tour in 2006.[6]

He also has the distinction of having more number one albums than any other male, barring Elvis Presley. He appears in the list of the all-time Top 100 best albums in the United Kingdom six times, more than any other person or group and has been the recipient of many awards ? including more BRIT and ECHO Awards than any other artist in history[7] the Brit Awards 2005 [8]. He is currently the most successful male artist in the world, for the period 1998-2007, according to the United World Chart, and the third artist overall behind Madonna and Britney Spears.[9]


Wealth
Williams is currently worth an estimated ?100 million (approximately $197 million). In 2006 the Sunday Times Rich List claimed he was worth over ?90 million.[103] Since then Williams' company 'In Good Company' has raked in a further ?17.2 million for the year ending March 2006. This figure does not include profits from Williams' record breaking Close Encounters Tour where he sold over 3.5 million tickets and grossed over $340m, or his latest album Rudebox which shifted 3 million units in its first three months of release. According to HELLO Magazine's 2006 Rich list, he earned ?30m ($59m) in 2006, making him the third highest earning act, behind Elton John and The Rolling Stones. In his five years as a member of Take That, Williams earned an estimated ?5m. Before signing his record breaking ?80m ($158m) contract with EMI in 2002, Williams was worth an estimated ?35m ($69m). Williams is a lifelong supporter of Port Vale F.C., based in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent. In February 2006 he bought ?240,000 worth of shares in the club.[104]


[edit] Charity
Robbie Williams created a charity with the aid of Comic Relief that is set up in his home town entitled Give It Sum, with its goal being to "improve local conditions and strengthen community life by giving money to those who are disadvantaged."[105][97] Williams, with the help of friend Jonathan Wilkes, recently organised a charity football match in an attempt to raise funds in Africa. This match was played in May 2006 at Old Trafford, Manchester. The participants were a mixture of celebrities and professional football players.


[edit] Awards
Main article: List of Robbie Williams' Awards
Williams has won a large amount of awards over the years, including more BRIT Awards than any other artist in music history (fifteen), as well as more ECHO Awards than any other artist ever (six awards in a row).

[edit] Discography
For complete information about upcoming releases, singles, sales figures, charts and other, please go to Robbie Williams discography.

[edit] Studio albums
1997: Life Thru A Lens
1998: I've Been Expecting You
2000: Sing When You're Winning
2001: Swing When You're Winning
2002: Escapology
2005: Intensive Care
2006: Rudebox
[edit] Compilation albums
1999: The Ego Has Landed
2004: Greatest Hits
[edit] Live albums
2003: Live At Knebworth
 [edit] Number One Singles in the UK
1998: "Millennium"
1999: "She's The One
2000: "Rock DJ"
2001: "Eternity"
2001: "Somethin' Stupid" (with Nicole Kidman)
2004: "Radio"
 


[edit] Tours
The Show Off Must Go On (October - November 1997)
The Ego Has Landed (May - June 1998)
One More For The Rogue (November 1998 - March 1999)
Man, The Myth, The Tez Bill (aka Born to be mild) (January - March 1999)
Get Your Coat Boy, You've Pulled!: (October - November 1999)
Sermon On The Mount (October - November 2000)
Sermon On The European Mount (February - March 2001)
Weddings, Barmitzvahs And Stadiums (June - August 2001)
Sing When You're Pacific Rimming Australasian (October - November 2001)
Weekends Of Mass Distraction (June - August 2003)
Cock of Justice/Aussie Typo Tour (October - December 2003)
Close Encounters Tour (April - December 2006)


(http://www.robbietour.com/pix/robbie.jpg)

Did he do a song about angels?

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

It's called angels luv :rofl:

Then I know who he is. I LOVE THAT SONG!

WHO DOESN T ?

One would be mad not to like it... :-*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGzTyhSX7e0

I went to a Star Trek marathon - watched all 6 in one day.....

And I'm the one who gets called a nerd and geek.  :hihi:

 :-*



/jarmo

There was free cereal in the morning! - it started at 6.30am and it was dark when we left the cinema so many hours later.  :smoking:

So much for Paramount giving Trek a rest.
Given how badly they screwed up the ST:TNG movies, I have no faith that they'll do a good job on this one. Especially as they're so desperate for ideas that they're making a prequel. Better start gathering lumber folks, we're going to need an awfully big coffin for this franchise.

I thought Matt Damon was supposed to be in it. I reckon Robbie Williams will be a shit actor, just like his singing.

Yeh, Damon has Kirk written all over him.

I agree.

He. . . couldn'tpossiblybeas. . . Kirkish. . . asWilliamShatnerwasandwillalwaysbeinthe. . . minds. . . of. . . allthosefamiliarwiththerolehemadefamous! Noactorintheirrightmindwould. . . takethatrole, andinvitetheinevitablecriticismandvile. . . VILEhatredthatdeviatingfromtheestablishedcharacter, the. . . beloved. . .  characterwillundoubtedlybring!

I feel sorry for whoever lands the role of Kirk. What do you do?! Do you ape Shatner relentlessly and thereby turn the movie into a comedy of Ishtaresque levels of humiliation, or tone it down and bore the living crap out of the audience with your portrayal of Generic Spaceship Captain #438572? Either way, you'll be torn limb-from-limb by rabid geeks the world over.

Play it as if he is apeing Shatner - in fact, do a Shatner!

No William Shatner.

No Star Trek.

A 1960s style style Star Trek, like the original TV series could work. Pure action and Matt has done the Bourne films.

High Octane Star Trek!

How Kirk became Captain!

Then surely the role must go to Kevin Pollack. Or, god, I don't know. . . William Shatner?

Nah, you'd need a good character actor to do William Shatner justice.

You know what would be better? Doing what Star Trek has always done, make new characters with new stories. You could still have Matt Damon, you could even call him Kirk - shit, there should be enough Shatner-seed in space to have an entire ship's complement of Kirks. Then you come up with original ideas and make them into films! I know, it's a radical approach that's only been tried five times in the history of the franchise and only succeeded four times but I think that with enough money and enough big-name actors and enough good writers and producers Paramount could make at least ONE Star Trek movie which isn't a rehash of the tv shows. I have faith in them.

So why Matt Damon?  :P
He's not exactly the world's leading character actor.

Leonard Nimoy is in this movie, but no Shatner. The injustice!

When I see 'done like the original 60's series' - I mean done exactly like that. Give it a major comic book feel.

Damon would be able to highlight some quirky aspects about Kirk's character.

Damon isn't ham enough to be a comic-book-Kirk. He has too much taste and/or talent. Ben Affleck, on the other hand, is almost 2D anyway, he'd be perfect for Stolat's Pen-And-Ink Star Trek Project.

I really don't think they'll get Damon for this movie. They seem to be aiming much lower with the other cast members.

He'd bring credibility to the project and I think he has a talent for quirkiness/comedy ( a la Nick Cage)...

Shame about the casting (and vision) then.

Damn, This board just went down about 200 cool points. :hihi:

Same happens every time you mention JBJ....  :rofl:




/jarmo

It's Paramount, they think that just rolling out the Star Trek name again will give them all the credibility they need (given their record so far, they don't have any credibility in the bank to begin with so I'm not sure why they aren't trying harder). There are scores of people with experience in handling this franchise yet the studio puts it in the hands of JJ Abrams, god knows why. And the guy they cast as Spock is, as far as my research can discern, "some tv actor."

So as far as "vision" goes they seem to be running on empty.

Some TV Actor.......ya know!..........David Schwimmer would make great Spock!






Or is that a SNL sketch..........

I would have liked to have seen a movie with Janeway.

That's just disturbing. And who would play Bones? Stephen Colbert?

 

You wrote that the same way Sam Neil says: I would have liked to have seen Montana.........in the Hunt for Red October!



Who is Janeway? Who is Steven Colbert?

Yeh, Bones would be the tricky one to cast. Would you go for the Scottish Accent?

Connery for Bones!

scottish accent....... bones?.......... if you were have the ST fan you are tring to pull off you would not have made such a grievous error when speaking of the prgional cast. I was even going to let slide the "i watched all 6 movies statement as there are many people that just dont like next gen, and only like TOS, however with such a obvious mistake put forward I must call Bull Shit on you sir. Go rewatch the marathon of all 6 movies and tell me again bones has a scottish accent.

could never happen.

Heh, I thought the "Matt Damon for Kirk" comment easily outweighed the numeric issues. I'm sure that De Kelly and Jim Doohan are slap-fighting in their graves over that last one though.

 :rofl: :rofl:

Yeah I apologize for putting this board in the RED with the cool pts.

Isn't it Dr Bones McCoy?


You see I did the marathon, beacuse I thought it would be a cool thing to do........ ::)

I guess you're trying to tell me that Scotty would be the Scotsman!

(I now know why there was something niggling my brain before I went to sleep last night)? :rofl:

Ok! OK! So I 'm not a geek.........

Ok, then.

It would have to be Alec Baldwin doing a Welsh accent. Solved.

Maybe GNR's 'Dead Horse' could be the theme tune....

If ever a series needed a total reboot its Star Trek - i wonder how many mins into the film it will be before we have time travelling, borg technology and problems solved entirely by nonsensical technical terms...

Yeah, because the general public is just calling out for The Further Adventures Of Characters We Don't Care About. It's a cult/geek franchise which survives on the bloated wallets of the fans they already have, who flock to every new iteration. If the public weren't interested in the characters the first time around why would they now flock to the franchise to see Star Trek's Animal House: Lil' Spock?!

I'll bet my ass that this reboot is a one-off, completely failing to revive the franchise and encouraging Paramount to "retire" it yet again. Until the next executive suite cull, that is.

What I don't understand is why Spock was the only Martian on the Enterprise. ???

Maybe this new movie'll have more. That'd be pretty cool.

Ok, bring Jackie Chan in - we need to know more about the Asian guy!

Mr Sulu?