STAR TREK: ERIC BANA & CHRIS PINE

One announcement and one rumor in the world of Star Trek today. First of all, Eric Bana (Troy, Hulk) has been cast by J.J. Abrams in the role of “Nero,” presumably a Romulan villain who, if rumors are true, is the one leading a mission into the past to destroy Captain James T. Kirk and the Federation itself.
   Interestingly, during the making of Troy, Bana made a comment regarding the saga he was involved with that could fairly easily be applicable to Star Trek as well: “I think one of the reasons it’s lasted so long is that it’s a story you can lay over any period of time, and there’s a lot of relevance. I’m sure that’s why it’s stood up for so long. And it’s a thoroughly entertaining story. It has so many elements we can all relate to. Of revenge and love and love for country, love for family, ego – so many elements there, that it’s completely timeless.”
   One slightly disconcerting thing about Bana’s character: the Romulans have long been viewed as a an allegory for the ancient Romans, which is all well and good and plays very nicely. That being said, does the villain of the piece really have to be named “Nero?” That seems about as subtle as the original series’ “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield,” where two aliens try to kill each other because although each of them has a face that’s literally half white and half black, one of them says of the other in explanation of his hatred, “Isn’t it obvious? He’s white on the wrong side!”
   The rumored casting concerns actor Chris Pine, whose credits include The Princess Diaries 2 and Just My Luck, in the role of the aforementioned Kirk. At the time of the latter’s release, Pine expressed that he did feel luck had played a certain part in his career to date.
    “I took part in a theater festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated college,” he explained. “Then I was in Los Angles thinking, ‘I am going to go to New York.’ I had decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and, of course, the universe told me that I was not meant to go. Suddenly a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie. I think when you go and ‘throw it all away’ and stop getting attached and you say, ‘Whatever happens, happens,’ you don’t invest too much in anything in particular, and things work out.  As an actor, it’s easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, ‘Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?’ Yet here I am, so I am lucky.”

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We knew it was going to be huge, but we also knew that if we let ourselves be daunted by it, then we would fail. So we always set ourselves tasks: we’ll just get through this and we’ll be okay.