Monday, January 08, 2007

Forget Matt Damon, Daniel Craig Wants To Be Kirk

From the SyFy Portal blog

After starring in the most popular James Bond film of all time, "Casino Royale," British actor Daniel Craig has his sights set on yet another cultural icon, this time American.

"I would love a stint in the TV show or in a film," Craig recently told the World Entertainment News Network about Star Trek. "It's been a secret ambition of mine for years."

That could mean some interest in the upcoming proposed Star Trek XI movie from producer J.J. Abrams that reportedly will resurrect the characters of Kirk and Spock.

Despite his apparent love of science-fiction, Craig has very little genre work to his credit. He did appear in a 1996 episode of HBO's "Tales of the Crypt" and played Alex West in 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider."

He does have a sci-fi-like project coming up this year, however, when he stars alongside Nicole Kidman in "The Invasion." It was a movie he was filming before he was even selected to become the next James Bond.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well as the best Bond ever, he has a hard edge that might translate well to a certain well known Star Trek character - who's playing Kirk???

Beam Me Up said...

oh duh, I though (shows what thought did) that he was.