{"id":13410,"date":"2011-11-23T11:20:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T19:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=13410"},"modified":"2011-11-23T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T19:20:24","slug":"abrams-wants-del-toro-in-trek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/11\/abrams-wants-del-toro-in-trek-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams Wants Del Toro In Trek 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong> confirmed that he would like to have <strong>Benicio Del Toro<\/strong> in <em>Star Trek 2<\/em>, although he is mum regarding what role the actor would play.<\/p>\n<p>Del Toro and Abrams are still trying to work out a deal to get Del Toro for the Trek sequel. &#8220;Well, we&#8217;re just in negotiations,&#8221; said Abrams. &#8220;We&#8217;re in discussions. It&#8217;s not even negotiations\u2014just in discussion. But I would love to work with him. I&#8217;ve wanted to work with him for years, and this felt like a good opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Abrams150.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13411\" title=\"Abrams150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Abrams150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Not unexpectedly, Abrams wouldn&#8217;t talk about what role Del Toro might take in <em>Star Trek 2<\/em>. &#8220;It&#8217;s too early to talk about what the role is,&#8221; Abrams said, &#8220;but he&#8217;s such an amazing actor. He&#8217;s so versatile. He could do anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other <em>Star Trek 2<\/em> news, <strong>Chris Pine<\/strong> spoke about the possibility of a <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> return. &#8220;It just isn&#8217;t, quite honestly, my decision to make,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think Mr. Shatner will forever be Captain Kirk. I think it would be, certainly, an interesting thing to bring him back. I don&#8217;t know if he necessarily wants to at this point or not. But it&#8217;s not my decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.J. Abrams confirmed that he would like to have Benicio Del Toro in Star Trek&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2689],"tags":[2407,3831,2419,2414],"class_list":["post-13410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","tag-abrams","tag-del-toro","tag-pine","tag-shatner"],"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":"5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410","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=13410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13412,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions\/13412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}