Karl Urban is Star Trek's Bones?
Okay, this one I don't understand
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IESB had the rumor that Karl Urban may be starring in the new Star Trek reboot as the main villain, and then that role went to Eric Bana who will play a fella named Nero. Now Ain't It Cool News comes with news that Urban was actually not cast as a villain, but in fact he will play Dr. McCoy.
Wha?
I have actually thought all the casting to this point wasn't all that bad, some of it such as Zachary Quinto and Anton Yelchin seemed perfect. However, the dude that played a Viking kid in Pathfinder and Bourne Supremacy baddie would have never been a name I would have come up with for the sarcastic "Bones" McCoy, but AICN says it is "pretty much a done deal".
AICN puts it best when they say, "It'll be odd seeing Mr. Dark and Hunky-Action-Man playing a laid-back, peaceful country doctor. Presuming, of course, the character is patterned after DeForest Kelley's phenomenal approach." I gotta say they hit the nail on the head there. Based on the comparison above I just don't see it.
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Of course, considering DeForest Kelley pre-"Star Trek" was known for playing Western villains in a ton of televion programs and theatrical films (most notably in the 1959 classic "Warlock") maybe we should hold this against Urban. After all, if he could still shoot a man in the back in "Apache Uprising" (I think it was that one – my memory is a little hazy) and still become the folksy and genuine 'Bones' McCoy with audiences embracing him who is to say the man who tried to slice Vin Diesel's throat and also faced down a horde of Urak-Hai can't do the same?
I'm just sayin'…