“Heroes” Meets “Star Trek”
July 27th, 2007
It was announced at Comic-Con in San Diego, CA yesterday that “Heroes” star Zachary Quinto will be playing a younger version of “Star Trek’s” Mr. Spock.
The Pittsburgh, PA native is best known for his role as “Sylar” in “Heroes” but has also starred in “24″ and “So NoTORIous”. He will be joined by the original Mr. Spock, Leonard Nimoy who will be reprising his role.
J.J. Abrams who has been tapped to direct the 11th Star Trek movie released cast name but not details of the movie’s plot. It is however suspected that the movie will focus on Spock and Kirk’s younger days at Starfleet Academy.
The as yet unnamed film is slated for release December 2008.
