Star Trek is beaming up Winona Ryder. Paramount Pictures and director JJ Abrams have set Ryder to play the Vulcan mother of a young Spock (Zachary Quinto). Scripted by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the film revolves around the Starfleet Academy days of the crew of the Starship Enterprise. Chris Pine has been set to play Capt. Kirk, Simon Pegg will play Scotty, Karl Urban is Dr. McCoy and Eric Bana will play the villain, Nero.
This is the first casting I'm skeptical about. As far as I'm concerned, they don't get any more irrelevant than Winona Ryder. Also, if this Variety article is correct, she's playing a Vulcan. Any geek knows that Spock's mother was human not Vulcan, so I'll just assume that's an editorial error. Otherwise there will be some kind of geek revolt.
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