Recasting Khan Fraught With Difficulty
Written by Ian Cullen on November 4, 2009 – 9:30 am -
One thing that has been coming up consistently with regard to the second of J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies is the suggestion that we could see Khan make a return to the Star Trek Universe. In a recent interview for MTV Abrams admitted that recasting Khan would be a huge task.
Abrams didn’t confirm if Khan would make an appearance in the second of his Star Trek movies, but he does feel that should they go down that path. It would be extremely hard to find an actor with the same charismatic magnetism as Ricardo Montalban who originated the role.
“I think one of the by-products of doing this movie was we were able to dispel the obvious and understandable concerns – how can Star Trek possibly exist without those original cast members?”
“Now that we are in a parallel existence with what fans of the original series love so much, we could introduce any number of characters, settings, references and situations that the original series introduced. Dealing with Khan would certainly be a challenge, but we had an equal challenge in finding our crew of the Enterprise.”
The director went on to add that he was still talking about story ideas with Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Damon Lindelof, and that nothing has been locked in yet.
“While I don’t want to approach the second film as a remake of episodes we’ve seen in the past… nothing is off limits in terms of what we’re discussing.”
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