Trek XI: Cruise as Pike?
by Doc on Aug.08, 2007, under Movies
It’s kind of out there, and kind of unlikely, but IGN is reporting that J.J. Abrams has been wooing Tom Cruise to play a bit part in Star Trek XI as a younger Captain Christopher Pike, Jim Kirk’s predecessor in the center seat on the Enterprise. Strangely, I think he looks enough like Jeffrey Hunter, who played Pike in the original pilot episode, “The Cage”, that it could be pulled off. Of course, they’d need to make him look at least a foot taller…
August 8th, 2007 on 4:09 pm
Cruise
All kidding aside, it’d be a good cameo. There is a slight resemblence to the actor who played Pike in the motorized chair.
August 9th, 2007 on 3:39 pm
Re:Cruise
Perhaps the height issue could be explained away as whatever put him in that chair stretched him out a bit…
ha! just kidding… Feels like Friday.
August 9th, 2007 on 3:58 pm
Re:Cruise
More like the battle with the creature on Rigel IV or whereever it was…I remember Jeffrey Hunter (not the one who played the crippled Pike) being pretty tall.