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Nolan North Cast in New Star Trek Movie

By Brian P Rubin | 21 May 2012 | 5 Comments   

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A post on Eurogamer today reveals that Nolan North, the voice of Uncharted’s Nathan Drake, has just finished working with J.J. Abrams on the new Star Trek 2 flick.

“The reason I did that movie – it’s a very small role – but it’s because [Abrams] and his son are huge fans of Uncharted,” North told Eurogamer. “I met him doing some work on Super 8 and he said ‘We’re doing Start Trek, you wanna do it?’ And I said I’d love to.”

He continued, discussing the burgeoning legitimacy of the video game medium:

“He’s a huge fan of gaming and he was telling me how people just don’t understand [the medium] yet, but they’re going to catch up. They don’t understand how amazing this technology is and it doesn’t get the respect it deserves, but if it keeps making the money it makes you’re going to see more and more people converted.

I mean, Gary Oldman, one of the greatest actors on the planet, did Call of Duty. He wouldn’t have done it 10 years ago. It’s a new age dawning, and I’m just really proud to be part of it.”

That’s pretty awesome, no? Worlds—they’re colliding. And this is a way cooler cameo than stupid Tyler Perry in the first one. I bet J.J. Abrams is a big fan of House of Payne or something.

Via Eurogamer

 

5 Comments

  1. Posted by JESSE on 21 May 12 at 10:53am

    Anybody else think this was gonna be about an Uncharted game in space?

  2. Posted by Maximk on 21 May 12 at 11:00am

    WEll, the cameo will be cool, as long as he isn’t some engineer who gets his head blown off or sucked out into space in the first 5 minutes of the movie ;)

    • Posted by Eleglas on 21 May 12 at 5:17pm

      I doubt he’ll make a physical appearance, but rather just a voice-over. I can’t see him being made a simple Red-Shirt.

      Off the top of my head, maybe a computer voice, like Majel Barrett Roddenberry who was the voice of Starfleet vessels. However I would expect them to use as much of her voice as they can to stay true to Canon. Perhaps an Alien vessel’s computer? Or some other system.

      Maybe he’ll just be a voice over Communications, who knows.

      • Posted by Maximk on 22 May 12 at 12:46am

        Hmmm, yes, the communications thing seems the most plausible.
        Though Nolan North doesn’t look to bad and I think he would make quite a good actor/red shirt ^^

        But if communications, he could be anything, he could even be a person from one of the lower decks. Someone who is calling for help from a colony that is under attack.

        The colony under attack scenario seems quite plausible anyway ;)

  3. Posted by soulprovider on 21 May 12 at 1:08pm

    Nolan north needs to take a break, I mean isn’t he in like every game ever made…

    J?K hes great just starting to become a meme.

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