CANDYMAN's Tony Todd Reportedly Wanted for the New STAR TREK Series
Tony Todd is a veteran character actor and voice actor who has had an incredible career with roles in a ton of different films and TV series. According to the actor, via an interview with TrekCore, he's on a short list of actors wanted to join Bryan Fuller's upcoming Star Trek series that is coming to CBS All Access.
Todd currently provided the voice of Zoom in The Flash, and he has also been involved with projects such as Young Justice, Transformers Prime, Chuck, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 24, Candyman, Platoon, and more.
This also wouldn't be the first Star Trek project he has been involved with. He's appeared in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and a few Star Trek video game projects. He seems like he would be a solid fit for the series if he ends up getting the job. The actor explains:
"It’s a year away. They’re not even going to get official cast until, probably, the fourth quarter of the year. And my only concern about it is that it’s going to be that [CBS All Access] online thing; I don’t understand that part."
"I’ve never done a series regular — I’ve always avoided it because I like playing different characters — but this is one year that we’re looking at some stuff, so I’m sure that we’re going to be popping up and everybody’s going to move on on sometime very soon."
So he doesn't understand that whole All Access thing either! I think CBS needs to ditch that whole All Access plan otherwise no one is going to watch the damn show. We'll keep you updated on this project as it develops.