Wednesday, April 29, 2009

My Vote for the New Capt. Kirk: Seth Rogan

He's Canadian!
He's a hazel-eyed Jew!
He's softbodied!
He's joyously ridiculous!
Women love him; guys like him!
He's an Aries! (April 15, 1982, so he's just 27.)

And... turns out he cleans up pretty good!

It's moot, of course, but Seth Rogan meets many of the criteria to portray a William Shatneresque Captain Kirk. True, he usually plays more of a Type-B schlump than a Type-A captain, but he's cast as the Green Hornet (to be directed by Michel Gondry, the antithesis of J. J. Abrams), so we'll see how he pulls off superherodom. I bet I'll like him in that role more than I'll like blue-eyed Chris Pine as the new Kirk.