http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6918624.stm
Heroes villain Zachary Quinto is to star as Mr Spock in the latest Star Trek film.
The Paramount Pictures film, whose working title is Star Trek XI, revolves around the first encounters between a young Spock and James T Kirk.
Leonard Nimoy, who played the original Mr Spock, will play an older version of the character in the new film.
Guess we'll have to see how the pointy ears fit. He does look a bit like a young Leonard Nimoy, but I have a hard time seeing him as anything but Sylar.
I could buy it. The only problem is that Nimoy, when he was younger, was built more slender than Quinto is. Quinto would be more a stockier Spock, and I don't know if he can pull off the forceful-yet-dispassionate way that Nimoy played Spock at times. Quinto's delivery, I think, would be more like Tim Russ doing Tuvok -- more reasoned, in other words.
I'm not unhappy with the choice, though. And, who knows, he might pull it off perfectly. Matthew Lillard was the ultimate Shaggy in the two Scooby Doo movies, and though he'd played a pothead before, he'd never played one that didn't sound like your generic collegiate-dropout-stoner.
