Eric Bana cast as new villain! Potential spoilers....

[Sharr Khan]

Re: Eric Bana cast as new villain!

Tamek said:

cardinal biggles said:

erastus25 said:
Nero sounds kinda cartoony to me. I hope they end up changing that name. Anyone agree?

Dopey names can be changed right up to the first day of shooting (and thanks to the miracle of ADR, even after shooting!). Dopey actors are harder to work around. Bana is a good pick, and that's what I'm more concerned about at the moment.

Who says that "Nero" is not a code name? Just something they are releasing to the public, and not the character's actual name?

First of all "Nero" is one of the more "Romulan" sounding names we've had on Trek in awhile. Very old school Romulans as Romans in space - I like it.

And don't assume that just because "Balance of Terror" seemed to indicate Kirk didn't know what was up across that border... that maybe he did know.

If you really think an interstellar war was waged and one side didn't seek out details about the other - such as what they looked like, where their home system was... ect you must also assume that both Earth and Federation are pretty dumb and we should all be amazed they won the Earth-Romulan war.

Of course there is that matter of Vulcan being Earth's allies and that they have a vested interest in obscuring their link to the Romulans...

Sharr

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Re: Eric Bana cast as new villain!

CaptainWacky said:

Starship Polaris said:
This is...really, really unexciting.

I suppose if it was Billie Piper cast you'd be excited?

In every sense of the word.

 

[RAMA]

Re: Eric Bana cast as new villain!

A lot of people still seem to want Urban in the role, but Bana's a bigger name for sure, and I do like him better as an actor. Munich was one of my favorite movies of recent times.

RAMA

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

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I bet there's a scene in the movie where Kirk, Spock and McCoy sing "Nero, row, row your boat".

Maybe after they maroon Nero on a water planet.

 

[Norrin Radd]

Re: Eric Bana cast as new villain!

xanderwess said:
I don't think he's a Romulan, I'll bet he's Starfleet. I can't see them casting a big name actor to be in tons of makeup, that according to Canon, can't have any contact with the main characters anyway......I'll bet he's a big shot Captain, gone bad.

Or maybe he's both Romulan AND Starfleet.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

 

[Iceburgeruk]

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Here`s the easiest way to solve the problem of humans nvere seeing that romulans and vulcans are the same.

ROMULANS + HATS = :thumbsup:

 

[xanderwess]

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Infiltrator? That is plausable enough. I am just willing to bet Bana is not in a bunch of green makeup with a Moe hairpiece, and is instead, wearing a Gold shirt with a crazed reason for going bad and siding with the Romulans. Those Romulan guys always look so prissy to me anyway.

 

[Balthier the Great]

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I kinda dig the infiltration angle. I'd much rather have someone who turns on the crew than somebody that shows up dressed like a goth and carrying a murasame.

 

[Ro_Laren]

Quark’s Lobe said:
I think this is sounding impressive! "Nero" sounds kinda Romulan, right?
StarTrek.com Article

It would be interesting to see a Romulan with an Australian accent!!

 

[EyalM]

"Nero" doesn't sound alien enough. How about "N'ero"?

 

[MrPointy]

I need to find a screenshot of Bana as 'Worf' back in his Full Frontal days.

 

[aridas sofia]

EyalM said:
"Nero" doesn't sound alien enough. How about "N'ero"?

How about "N'ot"?

Starship Polaris said:
Actually, the only Roman historian alive at the time of the Great Fire who wrote about it tells an entirely different story - that Nero was elsewhere at the time and rushed back to Rome to organize and pay for the relief effort. The "Nero fiddled while Rome burned" is an apparent invention of later writers.

There were other Roman historians at the time, like Epictetus and Pliny, but none that saw fit to mention the event.

Nero did go off the deep end after the burning of the city. He was blamed, and to divert blame he pinned the cause on the Christians, leading to their wholesale slaughter. He also used the burning as an opportunity to exercise his architectural pretensions, not only as a city planner, but as a palace builder -- building an edifice for himself that required whole new kinds of taxation in order to finance.

Like any big taxer, he got his comeuppance. :thumbsup:

 

[Pro Populo]

Interesting bit of news, this. I'm one of the few people who seems to like Hulk, so Eric Bana in a Trek movie piques my interest somewhat. Can't say I see him as a villain, but apparently he played a pretty mean guy in a movie called Chopper (which I haven't seen). As a Romulan, though? We'll see, I guess.

And "Nero?" I kinda like it. If there can be a Klingon named "Chang," then why not a Romulan named "Nero?"

 

[CaptainDonovin]

Didn't care for Hulk but loved Troy so I'm happy with this. Going to be interesting to see who's next to sign up.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Re: Eric Bana cast as new villain!

xanderwess said:
I don't think he's a Romulan, I'll bet he's Starfleet. I can't see them casting a big name actor to be in tons of makeup, that according to Canon, can't have any contact with the main characters anyway......I'll bet he's a big shot Captain, gone bad.

Captain James Nero Kirk, the evil 24th-Century descendent of James Tiberius gone back in time to change history...

Back to the Future, eat yer heart out!

 

[DarthPipes]

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Good choice! He's not as big a name as a Russell Crowe but he's becoming pretty well known and won't overshadow the film like a lot of big stars would. Haven't seen him in a lot of movies. Didn't like The Hulk but I thought he was excellent as Troy. I think he'll do a good job in ST.

 

[Spider]

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I am just so out of touch with today’s young actors it’s not even funny. I have no idea who banana boy is, and haven’t seen any of his movies.

I didn't they'd get Crowe anyway, but it was a very nice rumor while it lasted.

 

[Admiral_Young]

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Interesting casting choice but I don't like the name sounds too Human for an alien sounding name. I know that the Romulans are supposed to be like the Roman Empire...ah well will wait to see how it fits in the movie!

 

[Wesson]

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Bana is a fine actor with more than a small following. Still, Russell Crowe would have really brought attention and interest to the movie.

 

[Jono]

Re: Eric Bana cast as new villain!

Obviously Nero is in fact a clone of Kirk, with his name been a play on how he is the "son" of James Tiberius Kirk. Also Nero was created by the Romulans as part of a plan to replace the real Kirk in Starfleet and bring down the Federation from the inside.

Obviously something goes wrong and Nero end up loose and wanting to kill his "father" because he is evil for no good reason.

Never in all of history has there been a more original role.