{"id":9759,"date":"2010-07-26T12:43:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T19:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9759"},"modified":"2010-07-26T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T19:43:52","slug":"pinkner-wants-nimoy-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/07\/pinkner-wants-nimoy-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinkner Wants Nimoy Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fringe <\/em>Producer<strong> Jeff Pinkner<\/strong> told a Comic-Con audience that he would like to see <strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong> return as William Bell.<\/p>\n<p>Nimoy&#8217;s character was killed off in the second season finale, but that would not be a problem as far as Pinkner is concerned. &#8220;Should we be able to convince him to come out of retirement again, we have another story in mind [for Bell].<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/102809NimoyBell.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9760\" title=\"102809NimoyBell\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/102809NimoyBell.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>Pinkner praised Nimoy. &#8220;He really was so unbelievably gracious,&#8221; said Pinkner. He was initially nervous that we just wanted him for promotional value, but we really wanted to give him a swansong role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Could Nimoy, who announced his retirement this year, return as Bell? &#8220;This is science fiction,&#8221; said Nimoy. &#8220;I have died in science fiction many times and somehow magically or scientifically come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fringe Producer Jeff Pinkner told a Comic-Con audience that he would like to see Leonard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2610,2409,3320],"class_list":["post-9759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-fringe","tag-nimoy","tag-pinkner"],"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-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759","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=9759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9761,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions\/9761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}