‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Sulu and Bones for Series Finale
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It reaches out it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out — One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out
Ehhh.... Thomas Jane turned out to be one of those "you can't say anything anymore" types in recent years. Not thrilled.
The internet seems to know exactly nothing about Kai Murakami.
Murakami is a theatre actor who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK.
IGN has details and a photo.
Nice, thank you!
Can you share some background on Jane? I really enjoy his stuff and would hate to have to stop recommending him.
I admittedly didn't look very hard, but this is what I found.
Honestly, it's such a word salad that I can't possibly be mad about it, if only because I was unable to decipher what, exactly, he was talking about.
The thing that stood out to me in particular was that he wasn't above working with the Daily Wire on that one movie, I forget the name, it was basically Die Hard at a school. Could be worse, yes, but I've become wary of him.
No, that’s disappointing enough. Thanks for the info!
Thomas Jane seems the wrong age bracket to be playing Bones. Unless the finale is being told in flashback? Hopefully he’s not stepping off a holodeck a la Enterprise finale.
Only a decade older than Kelley was.
TOS starts way after SNW, so the actor playing bones for this series should be younger than Kelley, not ten years older. Unless the finale takes place years later. We’ll see.
We have to take into account that, generally speaking, a 50-year-old jobbing actor on low-budget TV in 1966 looked a good deal older than a 50-year-old Hollywood actor tends to look now. (Hell, I'm not that far from 50, not Hollywood glam by any stretch, and I still look noticeably younger than my boomer parents did at my age and way younger than my Depression-era grandparents looked at my age.)
Physically, under modern makeup, lighting, and filming, I could see this guy looking very similar in age to Kelley in TOS.
I was just pointing out an observation.
But hey… full grown adults used to be normally cast as teenagers.
A time jump wouldn't surprise me - IIRC, there were two three-month gaps in between episodes during season three.
He's only ten years older than DeForest Kelly was in 1966. Of all the original main characters I accept having aged up actors, Bones is the one that I most easily accept.
Scotty should be too though.
In TOS, he’s clearly 10 years older than Kirk. In SNW it looks like it’s the opposite!
And, to the extent that age of the actor implies the age of the character, Kelly and Doohan were about the same age.
Of all the original main characters I accept having aged up actors, Bones is the one that I most easily accept.
That doesn't mean I need or want to accept other actors being aged up just to match. Bones being played by someone a little older is not a huge deal.
Oh, I agree. I just think having more age appropriate choices for other characters would have been nice too.
Spock and Uhura seem to be roughly the right ages for the time the show is set. But Kirk is too old (the actor hides it well, lucky bastard) and Scotty far too young.
And McCoy makes no sense if cast too young given the nature of his personality, relationship to Kirk, etc. So, like you, I would prefer to go older as opposed to too young, like they did with Scotty.
I think it’s the inconsistency that bugs me.
Nah, Spock's too young, vulcans age slow.
You sure about that? Ethan Peck is four years older than Nimoy was when he started to play Spock. The current iteration of Spock only feels younger because Ethan clearly has a good skincare routine.
And he’s a lot less likely to be a regular smoker. That will age you.
I would prefer if he did, and it turned out it was all a deranged fanfic by Regemont Barkley.
And of course the cover picture is two random other actors...
No, that's them. I believe the caption is the photo credit.
Oh okay, that's extremely confusing x)