ST09 Tidbits (Spocks Edition): Nimoy Supports Vulcans [UPDATED] + Quinto Reads Audiobook & Appears in GQ March 19, 2009
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Books, Great Links, Star Trek (2009 film) , trackback
For today’s tidbits at T-49 days we will do something a little different and focus on a few new stories coming from the new two Spocks, Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy. First off Mr. Nimoy has taken up the cause of Vulcan (Alberta, Canada). As for Mr. Quinto, it was just announced he will be reading the Star Trek audiobook, plus he appears in the new GQ.
Nimoy takes up cause of Vulcan (Alberta)
In the last ST09 Tidbits we reported that the two year long quest of the town of Vulcan, Alberta, Canada to land the premiere of the new Star Trek movie had come to an end with Paramount rejecting their request. But that is not the end of the saga, or not if Leonard Nimoy has anything to say about it. The original Vulcan was surprised to learn about the rejection and contacted town officials to implore them to not give up. Nimoy tells TrekMovie:
The people on Vulcan are disappointed that there will not be a screening in their namesake town. I would say “sad” but that would suggest emotion. One would think that Paramount could find a way to resolve this issue satisfactorily.
Nimoy has also given statements to Calgary Herald and Airlock Alpha voicing his support for the Vulcans. TrekMovie is trying to see if there is any flexibility back at Paramount on the decision, but no word back yet.
UPDATE: Paramount has contacted TrekMovie to tell us that they are working with the town of Vulcan to find some way to do something with them, but they are still working out details. When those details are worked out, we will do another report.
Nimoy to Paramount: let my people go (to a premiere in Vulcan)
Quinto reading Star Trek Audiobook + book page length confirmed
Here is some great news for fans of audiobooks. Not only will the audiobook version of the adaptation of the Star Trek movie (written by the legendary Alan Dean Foster) be the first Trek audiobook in years, but it also has a big star reading it…none other than Mr. Spock himself Zachary Quinto. The news was just announced this this week by Simon and Schuster. And book fans will be happy to know the audiobook will be unabridged. It will be available on CD and as a download. The CD version can be pre-ordered from Amazon for $19.79.
In other book news, TrekMovie ahs confirmed that the final page count for the Star Trek novel is 288 pages. You can pre-order the book at Amazon for $10.20. There will be an ebook version as well.
Quinto reading audio book = logical
Quinto style – talks Ryder – wants in on SNL
Speaking of the new Spock, Zachary Quinto appears in the new issue of GQ Magazine, The actor is showing off raincoats, just in time for Spring showers. He also talked briefly to the magazine about the movie noting the curiosity that Winona Ryder plays his mother saying "she’s, like, five years older than me." Quinto also revealed that he really wants to get on SNL. Come on NBC, make it so…how about a Quinto/Pine hosting gig around say…um…May 8th?
Does it rain on Vulcan?
(click image to see more images at GQ slideshow)
That is it for this Vulcan specific Tidbits, but look for another general ST09 Tidbits in the coming days.
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All good things did you see the rumor Chris Pine as Green Lantern
Ugh, that picture of nimoy is a gigantic tease.
shatner for green lantern!
just hope quintos impressions of the crew are better than shatners! he’s hillarious!
Cant wait to see Nimoy in ST : TFB
( I hear Shatner might be in this,,*smiles*)
Coming from Nimoy, that sounds like a declaration of war.
For what it’s worth, I’m all for the premiere in Vulcan, Canada. Petition!
Quinto looks great as Spock, but he would do a perfect Joker aswell!
Look for yourself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNv34c2YJ4
PS Second!
Well… almost.
Remember when The Shat had some adventures in Vulcan? Vulcan Alberta! I think it’s great Nimoy supports the towns cause. It’s a very, very, small town. Town really doesn’t fit, actually. Less than 2000 people live there. They don’t even HAVE a movie theatre!
“I would say “sad” but that would suggest emotion. ”
Thanks Leonard, that really cracked me up!!
bartender,
yes I know about the pine rumor.
curveball
please stop spamming links to your video in every thread.
Speaking of tidbits…has anyone checked that old website ncc-1701.com lately? It’s a shame that they never did anything more with that…
what a waste.
they should have built a screen for Vulcan and had a premier there.
i think they realy screwed up the whole advertising portion of this movie. the writers strike and the change in release date realy put hem off mesage and had to scramble to get things moving. remember this was uppost to be the most secret project in hollywood. nothing gets out pre-durioong or post. its all hush hush. then filming ended, the strike ended the relase was pushed back and they wnated a bigger buzz. and JJ was several days behind schedlue not locking the film till after its origonal X-mas release date. as a reslut the studio falls alover themselvs looking like a keystone cops opperation.
nowonder Vulcan couldnt get a show.
9
agreed
Why not have the Premiere at Riverside, Iowa???
Funny about the five-year age diff separating Quinto and Ryder. That’s about the difference between Cary Grant and Jesse Royce Landis, who played his mother in “North by Northwest.”
“i think they realy screwed up the whole advertising portion of this movie.”
How?
#12 – “and JJ was several days behind schedlue not locking the film till after its origonal X-mas release date. as a reslut the studio falls alover themselvs looking like a keystone cops opperation.”
What in the world are you going on about? Tell us all in what any of this has to do with the advertising that you are mentioning and in what way they “screwed up?”
Sheesh – Give the Vulcans a premiere, thier whole planet got black-holed… poor folks…
;-)
#14 That would be great. I second.
Enc
you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. The film was by no means delivered late. They kept to pretty much their original schedule of having it ready for a christmas release but since they had been given five extra months they gave themselves couple of weeks (much of which was cost savings by not paying as much overtime)
the studio said no to vulcan for many reasons, not the least of which are
a. it is in the middle of nowhere (hard to get press to fly to the middle of Canadian prairie)
b. they dont even have a movie theater
Nimoy: “I would say “sad” but that would suggest emotion.”
Love his sense of humour. :]
Having a premiere in a town with no movie theater wouldn’t be logical.
There was an interview with Leonard Nimoy in the new SciFiNow, issue 26. Just came out today. Well, in Ireland and Brittain anyway.
I’m sure TrekMovie can pull a few strings!
I’m with #14, especially if Vulcan doesn’t have a movie theater.
How the hell do they want to have a premiere in a town with NO Movie theater? How the hell do they want to build a Movie Theater in 49 Days… unless they ship some hundreds of chinese workers to this town… ;)
#4 your keyboard must be broken it just keeps typing the same stupid thing over and over?
#6. Curveball
Enough already, that video isn’t all that good, why would Spock be The Joker, why Not Nero?? he Is the Villain after all. Quit hawkin’ that thing.
Hey Maquis be nice I thought it was alright. Plus I hope that Vulcan Gets It’s premiere.
It’s fun to run with this one, especially after Nimoy’s naturally Vulcan statement.
Hell, do it in Calgary.
To me ‘Mr Spock himself’ is Leonard Nimoy
Considering Quinto does Sylar (”Heroes”) on NBC… and NBC is home to SNL, it’s a no-brainer.
“No-brainer”… heh… y’know, Sylar? Brains?
Scotty, beam me up…
Just started watching Heroes from the beginning on Netflix last week. Makes me even more excited for Star Trek as I enjoy Quinto immensely.
Hope he makes it to SNL!
I am somewhat surprised that Nimoy is getting on board. I was under the impression that he had always refused Vulcan’s requests for him to make an appearance. Is he only now getting on board because he knows he won’t have to go through with it? I hope not, I have far too much admiration and respect for that man.
PS:
12. Enc
Sorry dude, you are way off.
288 pages – souonds kind of “skimpy”? Oh and 1st?
25. Selor – March 19, 2009
“How the hell do they want to have a premiere in a town with NO Movie theater?”
They could do it outdoors.
“How the hell do they want to build a Movie Theater in 49 Days… unless they ship some hundreds of chinese workers to this town… ;)”
Not funny.
Is this “Albert” thing a running inside joke or something, Anthony? :P
The premier should be at the ISS.
The Premiere should be at my house! I promise I’ll vacuum…
37–do you mean Albert or Herbert? Because Herbert is indeed a running joke…
40: I meant Albert, because this is the second Vulcan, Alberta-related article I’ve noticed where he (apparently accidentally) omitted the final “a”, but it seems he’s fixed it here, too. Guess it’s just a recurring typo!
Anthony,
This page took a very long time to load. Server?
But thanks for the update
I think it’s scandalous that Vulcan has been declined the opportunity to host the premiere. Okay so there’s no cinema in town but this is hardly the end of the world. I have it on good authority that the mayor recently purchased one of the fancy new fangled wide screen TV’s and his wife makes a half decent meatloaf (allegedly).
I thik we should all start lobbying NBC for a Quinto/Pine SNL episode. That would be too funny and I would love to see them show off their humorous side. Would be great if Nimoy and Shatner “dropped in” and if they all did a skit together.
I’m surprised Shatner hasn’t been asked to do a second host gig on SNL.
I have added an update on Vulcan above, apparently it is not over and there will be something done for the town.
Quinto on SNL. That would be really cool. I haven’t watched SNL in a long time, but I would definitely watch that night.
It would suck for the town of Vulcan if the planet Vulcan exploded in the movie they happened to be premiering it.
just a thought.
48
that would b cool
That is an awesome update!
I totally understand that not having a movie theatre in Vulcan makes it difficult to have a premiere there, but kudos to Paramount for looking for a compromise.
They could still have some kind of cool Trek event in Vulcan.
# 39
LMAO!! Can always count on these threads for a good laugh!
Thanks!!
46:
“I have added an update on Vulcan above, apparently it is not over and there will be something done for the town.”
STAR TREK XI
Ayel: “Commander! We have received new information! There is a small settlement in Western Canada called Vulcan!”
Nero: “Vulcan?”
Ayel: “Yes, sir.”
Nero: “Source?”
Ayel: “Someone named JJ Abrams. He lives in California.”
Nero: “I know the guy…Call off the attack on San Francisco! Destroy….Vulcan!”
FIN
Forget the people of Vulcan, the world premiere should be held in Limerick, Ireland.
And why?
Because I live there-that’s MORE than enough reson.
Paramount, I await your response…..
I’m quasi-fashion-challenged, but those raincoats are sweet. Bit out of my price range, though.
And by a bit I mean a lot. :)
The first raincoat image of Quinto (see the full version over at the link) is interesting. Quinto could play Inspector Gadget quite well. Certainly would tie in having a dog named BRAIN. ;)
Vulcan, Herberta, Canada could easily erect an outdoor movie theater screen. We used to call these things “drive ins” but they’re an archaic 20th century Earth concept.
ON the idea of having Pine and Quinto co-host SNL… that’s like a no-brainah brilliant idea. Have them do a skit as salespeople in an Apple Store, pretending their barcode readers are phasers. And of course Pine would say he gets to pretend to be Spock, and Quinto would roleplay Kirk. It would be a hoot.
And having them appear at a Star Trek convention where all the attendees were geriatric… The First Annual AARPTrekcon ;) Could be fun!
And a CHiPs skit, with them playing Ponch (Quinto) and Jon (Pine), with a cameo by Pine’s dad would be rip-roarin’.
Sorry #6, but your Dark Trek sucks, and only a sock puppet would (and did) say otherwise.
Wow. Number 12 has left me speechless. Truly, truly ignorant.
We are in the midst of the biggest Trek media blitz in the history of the future and this is the perception you have? Harry Mudd has some great oceanfront property to sell you on Rigel XII, my friend.
I want this Vulcan thing to be front page news. After all, the New York Times has just covered Star Trek again!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/garden/19trek.html?pagewanted=1&em
Woohoo! Trek is back in the mainstream media!
Good for ZQ and GQ! We trekkies/trekkers/whatever could use a little style! Yeah to ZQ on SNL!
On a more serious note, doesn’t Nimoy’s Spock look blind? His eyes don’t have their usual deep color.
You know, I could be wrong, but I don’t think STAR TREK has ever, ever, EVER been in the news as much as it’s been this year, and it’ll only get bigger. New TREK movie, Shatner vs. Takei, Ellison vs. Paramount, Majel’s death, tidal wave of new merchadise, Shatner’s Raw Nerve… it goes on.
2009 could very well go down as the biggest year yet for all things TREK.
Enough of this foolishness! Open the movie in Romulus, Michigan and be done with it.
I bet *they* have a movie theatre!
60, the only problem is that Romulus is a “bad guy” planet. ;-)
58, I remember when Kirk and Picard were both on the cover of TIME magazine. That was a pretty good year!
Trek has often had a very strong connection to popular culture. I’d almost bet that it is the only major cultural franchise of its kind ever to have had a future monarch play a bit role in one of its TV episodes! (The current king of Jordan, I believe.)
Does anyone else see some “Doctor” from Doctor Who in that last pic of ZQ?
Just saying….
Quinto looks like the new Dr. Who!
I’m surprised Paramount may actually make a) a quick decision and b) a smart decision to use a natural tourist attraction a promotional event. These guys seem to make so many mistakes usually (backing HD-DVD to the bitter end, not letting Shatner do a director’s edition of ST:V, being cheap) but it’s good to see Paramount throwing money around in the name of Trek!
wow, i love the movie cap of nimoy, and the picture of quinto in that raincoat is delicious ;-)
anyway, I am a bit disappointed that nimoy doesn’t read the audiobook. is it just one reader, or maybe he has a guest appearence?
No one thought it was kinda funny that Nimoy’s quote says “the people ON Vulcan” …?
I mean, I get that his statement is meant to sound a little like Spock, but I thought it was funny…
Did you see the price of those raincoats? I wouldn’t pay that much for a raincoat even if it included ZQ. When you pay that much for a raincoat, you would never want to wear it when it rains for fear that it might get wet!!
Star Trek has always been about possibilities. About what we can be when we removed the petty restrictions we place upon ourselves – like greed, racism, etc. So why not explore the possibilties of building a dedicated Sci-Fi Theatre in a small town? Maybe in time a Vulcan Institute for fans (and others) to come to meditate and commune while enjoying the open vistas the Canadian prairies offers?
Great news about the audiobook! I’ve enjoyed the production quality of S&S past releases in this regard. It’s not just someone reading w/ silence behind them. There is music, sound effects (sometimes cheesy, sometimes genuine) and genuinely good performances. I enjoyed all of James Doohan’s readings, he could eleveate a so-so book to truly enjoyable audio. Esp. considering he did so many trek voices on the TOS and on the animated show anyway, it always provided a little “audio consistency” to the trek world. John DeLancie was also a great reader. And then they found a gentleman whose name I don’t recall at the moment for the novelizations of ST:I and NEM and he did a dead on Patrick Stewart. The audiobooks are a great way to pass some time and enjoy a story and I have all teh best hopes for ZQ’s reading of the new movie’s novelization!
@60 – Let’s go one better. Do the premiere at midnight in Vulcan, Alberta; Romulus, Michigan; and Riverside, Iowa. Oh, and San Francisco, the home of Starfleet.
April 4 premiere in Sydney, Australia? Huh? A full month before the worldwide premiere? I wonder if someone got their months wrong.
Man, it would be so great to watch this movie in Vulcan, Alberta with all the locals there. I think it would be hilarious everytime Nero is on screen talking about destroying Vulcan or attacking Vulcan or Kirk says: “We MUST get to Vulcan before they do…” or whatever.
Just imagine the raucous laughter of the local residents as they think about everyone fighting over their little prairie town, LOL!
lordy, he’s thin. either of them.
You just lost a poster to this site. I will not sit here and kowtow to a bunch of hitleresque people who sit by while other’s antagonize, make comments about ones personal life that are ad hominem and irrelevant and while you and the other ‘contributors’ sit by and watch without stating a single word about their ‘tone’. If you want some ‘civility’ show some god damn equity with regard to how you mete out ‘warnings’ or you will lose people. I am making a thread about this on several trek forums and warning people who have an opinion other than ‘JJ is my daddy’ to stay away from this fascist site. And it IS fascist no matter how you try to paint or justify it. Have a nice day.
#73—Lol.
What the heck are you talking about?
As for whatever it is you are categorizing as “fascism” and “hitleresque”, you–my friend– are in serious need of a lesson in history and political ideology. Your analogies are disgusting and cheapen the horrendous experiences of those who know and understand all too well what meaning those kinds of terms actually have.
#73
JJ is NOT my daddy. If your allegations are true, this comment will be removed by the webmaster immediately.
Rants can be fun but they hardly ever win people over.
Heck! What’s up w/ Simon & Schuster and their riduculous price gouging on the audio adaption of the film! The audio cd is twice+ as much as the printed book which takes far more raw materials(paper/binding), than to simply press a blank cd for a few cents with data(and a piece of cheap cardboard as pkging! Come on S&S,…. milking Trek fans once gain like the good ol’ days? At least the audio “is” unabridged!
For that price you should have gotten the whole cast to do voice work on it! Can we say 98% profit, I knew you could!
#67: And you know what they say about fashion… it’s something so ugly we have to change it every six months.
Those knee length raincoats that are so fashionable now are going to seem quite silly next year when they realise they let your knees get wet, as opposed to the full length versions.
quinto is not spock
only nimoy is spock
Ahaaaa. Quinto looks really good in that raincoat. No, seriously, he does.
“…Quinto reading Star Trek Audiobook …”
Yay! (But y’know that Nimoy has that voice… that just sounds AWESOME. But Quinto’s a’ight. ;3)