William Shatner Confirms Offer for STAR TREK 3, and He's "Delighted"
Last week a rumor hit that the writer and director of Star Trek 3, Roberto Orci, wanted William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy to appear together in the film. Orci wouldn't confirm or deny the rumors in a couple of tweets he sent out. Shatner responded at the time that he didn't know anything about the rumor, and that no one had contacted him.
It looks like that all changed though. Shatner revealed at Wizard World Nashville Comic Con that he actually had been contacted, and it was J.J. Abrams who made the call. According to Shatner, Abrams said,
“I’m calling because the director of Star Trek, the next movie, has had an idea where you might be involved, so I’m calling to find out whether you would be interested.”
Shatner says he responded,
“It depends on what you do with the character, but I would be delighted.”
So if they actually make this work, it looks like we'll see Shatner in the next Star Trek movie, which will make fans extremely happy. Of course, Abrams told Shatner that he couldn’t say anything to anybody, and Shatner agreed not to even tell his wife. And of course, once it leaked, Shatner didn't have to keep his mouth shut anymore. Shatner went on to say,
“It’s all over the Internet that the director had held an interview and said they want Shatner and Nimoy to be in the next movie. I’ll bet you J.J.’s frothing at the mouth at this point. So the news is out that they have an idea that they want Leonard and myself…they might want Leonard and myself in it. But I would love to do it. But how do you get me fifty years later into the movie? I mean how do you rationalize it. I know it’s science fiction, but even I couldn’t come up with an idea. So that’s the news on that.”
I will be great to see Shatner and Nimoy up on the big screen together again, and I can't wait to see what they have planned for them.