{"id":42705,"date":"2016-02-05T10:49:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=42705"},"modified":"2016-02-05T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:49:46","slug":"shatner-willing-to-return-as-older-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/02\/shatner-willing-to-return-as-older-kirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner: Willing To Return As Older Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though William Shatner<\/strong> will not be seen in Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, he would not be averse to reprising Captain Kirk in future Star Trek<\/em> movies or shows.<\/p>\n

After dying in Star Trek: Generations<\/em>, novels brought Kirk back to life. “When we finished our movies \u2014 the six movies I made \u2014 we were putting Kirk into glasses, graying hair, a little old,” said Shatner. “I wrote a series of novels [in which] they allowed me to tell my story of Captain Kirk. So in a series of Star Trek<\/em> novels, half a dozen of them, I \u2014 taking from my own life, of life and death and love and loss \u2014 I created this whole world of Star Trek<\/em> for Captain Kirk. I would have loved to have done them [as movies].”<\/p>\n

Even if resurrected, how would Kirk appear given that the actor who would play him is in his eighties? “How would they handle it,” he asked, “in science-fiction terms? I’m older; I’m heavier, I’m \u2014 all the problems of age. So what did Captain Kirk do? Die and age? Doesn’t sound ‘science-fictiony’ enough. Or maybe you make him really old. I don’t know. It seems to have beggared Abrams’ imagination.”<\/p>\n

But Shatner would be willing to play the iconic Captain one more time. “I would play an old Captain Kirk, absolutely,” he said. “You would have [to have] an interesting character, not a cameo, like ‘Here I am, aren’t I interesting?’ It’s the ongoing world; it’s the world within science-fiction. Yes, you age within the universe. Time goes on, but time bends, as well. There’s so many things you could do.”<\/p>\n

A forty-minute minute podcast, in which Shatner talks Trek, is located here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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