{"id":11930,"date":"2011-05-05T15:33:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T22:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11930"},"modified":"2011-05-05T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T22:33:26","slug":"yelchin-ready-for-trek-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/05\/yelchin-ready-for-trek-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelchin: Ready For Trek Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While making the rounds to promote <em>The Beaver<\/em>, <strong>Anton Yelchin<\/strong> spoke briefly about <em>Star Trek 2<\/em> and reprising the character of Chekov.<\/p>\n<p>Yelchin, like the other <em>Star Trek 2<\/em> actors, has no idea when actual filming begins. &#8220;It should be at some point,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At some point, we will make it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Yelchin020811-150p.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11931\" title=\"Yelchin020811-150p\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Yelchin020811-150p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>But Yelchin is ready to go when the call comes. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t read the script,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but I&#8217;m definitely looking forward to seeing what it is. It will be a lot of fun to play the character again, do all the research again and do all the homework. Also, it&#8217;s a great group of people. It&#8217;s one thing when you&#8217;re going back to a movie and you&#8217;re like, &#8216;Oh, God, I&#8217;ve got to work with these people again.&#8217; But, it&#8217;s such a great group. I enjoyed working with them all so much that I look forward to seeing them all again and working with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Slipping back into the character of Chekov after several years isn&#8217;t as easy as one might think; given the familiarity Yelchin has with the character after playing him in <em>Star Trek XI<\/em>. &#8220;In a way, it will be difficult&#8230;to make sure it&#8217;s the same person. That was almost four years ago, so it will definitely be challenging to try to capture the same thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Yelchin&#8217;s most recent film, <em>The Beaver<\/em>, which opens tomorrow, Yelchin plays Porter Black, the oldest son of a depressed man, Walter Black (<strong>Mel Gibson<\/strong>), who adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While making the rounds to promote The Beaver, Anton Yelchin spoke briefly about Star Trek&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2689],"tags":[2619],"class_list":["post-11930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","tag-yelchin"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xii\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Into Darkness","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11932,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930\/revisions\/11932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}