Abrams Is Looking For Plain Or Odd Star Trek Fans

[Forkboy]

Abrams Is Looking For Plain Or Odd Star Trek Fans

Producers of the new Star Trek movie are to hold an open casting session for people with "unique" features to appear as extras in the film.

The studio said it was interested in people with unique characteristics like "long necks, small heads, bug eyes, large foreheads and oversized ears".

Hopefuls also have to agree to have their eyebrows shaved to portray a "Vulcan-type" eyebrow shape.

Auditions will take place on Saturday in California.

Extras will get the chance to play Star Fleet military cadets in the new film, which will centre on the early experiences of Captain Kirk and his team.

The invitation to the casting session said: "This is an epic project and we are looking for the most intriguing and interesting faces to integrate in this film."

Some of the facial features the studio is looking for include:

extremely large heads and foreheads
wide or close-set eyes
over or undersized ears and/or nose
facial deformities
pronounced cheekbones
ultra perfect or ultra plain-looking people

"Everyone must be thin, athletic, fit; wardrobe will be form-fitting. All hair lengths on males and females welcome," the casting invitation added.

The film, to be directed by Lost creator JJ Abrams, will be released in December 2008.

More information can be found over at the Headquarters Casting website. The info is under "Corporate Headquarters", which is an alias for the film.

http://headquarterscasting.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

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Go get 'em Trekkies! :)

[SaveElmer]

1. How about extremely large midsections...

I might be in the running for that!!!!

:-)

[Forkboy]

2. LOL

Sadly, anyone even remotely overweight is used as a gag in movies, not as a real person.Although, having said that, Sci-fi is one of the only genres that would use them as real people, which is one of about a hundred reasons to like it.

[SaveElmer]

4. Well if they paid me enough...

I get made fun of for so many things...would be just one more!!! :-)

[Connonym]

3. Evidently in the future we'll have a cure for that

overweight is the final frontier but clearly there will be all sorts of deformities in the future but we'll have cured that one! No future for cushy girls like me.

[semillama]

5. Scotty wasn't exactly svelte in his later years. n/t

[Connonym]

6. yeah but he discovered see-through metal so...

wait, that was Scotty wasn't it? Oh it's all a blur. <g> I wouldn't want to be Shat's girdle either actually.