Over the years William Shatner has talked about the possibility of returning to the role of Captain Kirk in a Star Trek project, and it seems like he’s keeping the door open.
During a recent interview with Canadian Press the actor explained that he wouldn’t rule out returning as Captain Kirk in a new Star Trek project if the script impressed him.
Shatner said: “It’s an intriguing idea. It’s almost impossible. But if it was a great role and so well-written and if there were a reason to be there not just to make a cameo appearance, but if there were a genuine reason for the character appearing, I might consider it.”
Now, Shatner is 93 years old, and if he did come back for Star Trek, he wouldn’t mind a little of that de-aging technology being used on him.
The actor added: “[It] takes years off of your face, so that in a film you can look 10, 20, 30, 50 years younger than you are.”
Harrison Ford went through that process in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and that ended up looking great!
As for how Kirk could return, because he died in the 1994 film Star Trek Generations, which is the last time Shatner appeared in the iconic sci-fi franchise, Shatner already thought that through.
He shared his idea, saying: “A company that wants to freeze my body and my brain for the future might be a way of going about it. ‘We’ve got Captain Kirk’s brain frozen here.’ There’s a scenario. ‘Let’s see if we can bring back a little bit of this, a little salt, a little pepper. Oh, look at that. Here comes Captain Kirk!’”
I seriously doubt we’ll ever see Shatner back in the role of Kirk, but is that something you would like to see happen?
As of right now, Paramount Pictures still is trying to figure out what to do with the film franchise. They have not been able to get their crap together for some reason.
The latest news on that is the studios Andor director Toby Haynes will direct from a script by Seth Grahame-Smith. That movie is said to take place decades before the original 2009 Star Trek feature.