Fans of "Fringe" waited patiently throughout the show's first season to meet the enigmatic scientist William Bell. That patience was rewarded in the form of a brief cameo by actor Leonard Nimoy during the season's closing moments and in an extended scene earlier this year.
But based on the words of Nimoy himself, Bell's days on "Fringe" could already be numbered. The actor spoke with Hero Complex about his role on "Fringe," admitting that his turn as the scientific rival of Dr. Walter Bishop's could be at an end. Read more...
Editor's Note: Thar be spoilers ahead, so beware if you haven't seen "Star Trek"...
FROM MTV.COM:
This past weekend, $76.5 million worth of people saw Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy on-screen in J.J. Abrams’ blockbuster reboot “Star Trek.” The one person they didn’t see, however, is larger-than-life “Trek” icon William Shatner.
During the course of the film’s production, a bizarre battle of words erupted between Abrams and the 78-year-old original Captain Kirk over a never-filmed, top-secret scene. Recently, we got the spoiler-heavy details on the very different ending once intended as Nimoy and Shatner’s final time together on-screen.
“It’s true, we did write a Shatner scene,” Roberto Orci, one of the film’s writers and producers, explained.
Continue reading 'Star Trek' Writers Reveal The William Shatner Scene That Never Was
Over the last few weeks, “Transformers” director Michael Bay has spent a considerable amount of time telling us about his favorite Earth-invading robots, and even revealed the Transformer he hated so much that he decided to kill it. But these days, he’s wrestling with the final touch: Who will voice his new “Transformers” robots, and will a “Star Trek” legend be amongst them?
“I’m still not done with all the voices,” Bay explained to us recently when we brought up “Revenge of the Fallen” robot casting for the film, which hits theaters on June 24th.
As loyal fans of the robots-in-disguise remember, Mr. Spock himself - Leonard Nimoy - was the voice of characters like Galvatron in the 1986 cartoon “Transformers: The Movie.” And “Revenge” writer Roberto Orci has said that he’d like to see Nimoy return for the summer blockbuster. Further clouding the issue, however, is the fact that Bay and Nimoy are…related? Read more...
