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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
George Takei Joins ‘Star Trek: Khan' Scripted Podcast — Trailer, Premiere Date & Additional Cast Unveiled At SDCC
Star Trek 's most notorious villain is returning in podcast form, and fans at Comic-Con were treated to a sneak peek and more new details about the scripted audio series. During Saturday's Star Trek universe presentation in Hall H, the trailer and key art for Star Trek: Kahn were unveiled, along with a Sept. 8 premiere date (new episodes following on Mondays) in celebration of Star Trek Day and additional casting announcements, including franchise veterans George Takei and Tim Russ. After Naveen Andrews and Wrenn Schmidt were cast as the titular Khan Noonien Singh and Lieutenant Marla McGivers, the presentation revealed Sonya Cassidy will play Dr. Rosalind Lear, with Russ reprising his Star Trek: Voyager role as Ensign Tuvok and the Takei back as Captain Sulu. The supporting voice cast includes Olli Haaskivi as Delmonda, Maury Sterling as Ivan, Mercy Malick as Ursula and Zuri Washington as Madot. Written by Kirsten Beyer and David Mack, based on a story by Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) writer/director Nicholas Meyer, the scripted podcast from director Fred Greenhalgh explores the untold events on Ceti Alpha V, chronicling Khan's descent from a superhuman visionary into the vengeful villain seen in The Wrath of Khan. Produced by CBS's Eye Podcast Productions Inc., Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment, executive producers include Alex Kurtzman, Aaron Baiers, Kirsten Beyer, Molly Barton, Carly Migliori, Fred Greenhalgh, Trevor Roth and Rod Roddenberry, with Robyn Johnson as co-executive producer. Realm serves as the production studio for the series. Best of Deadline
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Star Trek: Khan', an origin story for classic villain, returns George Takei as Sulu — watch the trailer
The first episode arrives this September, as announced during a San Diego Comic-Con panel. Star Trek: Khan, a new audio series chronicling the origin story for the classic villain, released its first trailer, confirming more returning Star Trek vets. The reveal came during Saturday's Star Trek Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, and the big casting confirmation was George Takei, who returns to the character of Sulu, which he originated on the original 1966 TV series. Tim Russ will also reprise his Star Trek: Voyager character, Ensign Tuvok. Releasing the first episode this Sept. 8 for Star Trek Day, Star Trek: Khan will explore "the untold events on Ceti Alpha V, chronicling Khan's descent from a superhuman visionary into the vengeful villain seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," an official summary of the scripted podcast reads. New episodes will be available weekly every Monday through Nov. 3, wherever you get your podcasts. Naveen Andrews of Lost fame will voice Khan Noonien Singh himself. Wrenn Schmidt from For All Mankind was also previously announced as Lieutenant Marla McGivers. They are joined by Sonya Cassidy (Reacher) as Dr. Rosalind Lear, Olli Haaskivi (Oppenheimer) as Delmonda, Maury Sterling (Homeland) as Ivan, Mercy Malick (Mr. Mayor) as Ursula, and Zuri Washington (Life With Althaar) as Madot. Earlier in the Trek panel, Paramount+ released an early look at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4, which will feature a puppet-themed episode with the crew turning into Muppets. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan writer and director Nicholas Meyer wrote the story on which Star Trek: Khan is based. Kirsten Beyer and David Mack also serve as writers on the podcast. Watch the trailer above. Check out more of . Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly Solve the daily Crossword
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
John Wayne's outrageous antics on set exposed... including 'bullying' a CHILD actor
John Wayne is arguably one of the greatest American actors of all time. While many of his co-stars have praised his professionalism and hard working nature, not everybody had a wonderful experience with the late star. While filming his 1953 western Hondo, Wayne reportedly 'bullied' and berated one of the child actors in the film. According to Ronald L Davis' unauthorized biography on Wayne, Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne, the star would also throw tantrums on set. 'Every morning, when he would be hungover, he would have a screaming fit,' his Hondo co-star Geraldine Page said. 'He'd yell at somebody until he got hoarse. He would pick on some technical point, and he was always right,' she added. Wayne apparently then got frustrated with child actor Lee Aaker during filming - and he wasn't afraid to show it. 'He kept trying to bully the child into doing what he wanted, and the boy wouldn't do it,' Page claimed, adding that Wayne would make Aaker retake scenes 'over and over again.' Page isn't the only former co-star of Wayne's to expose his on-set behavior. George Takei, who starred alongside Wayne in the critically panned 1968 war drama The Green Berets, claimed that The Searchers star had a reputation for relentlessly bullying one crew member of every film he worked on. 'There was a quirk in him. I was shocked. I was told he did it with every production,' Takei told Express. 'He singled out one man, always a big bruiser of a guy, tall, husky and muscular, usually a stuntman or a stand in. And he pilloried these people there on the set with everyone looking on,' he continued. 'I was embarrassed being there. He did it all consistently with this guy and then people who worked with him on other productions told me he always did that. 'He picked one person to excoriate relentlessly. Sometimes these guys broke down in tears.' Takei believes that this was Wayne's way of 'establishing his alpha, top dog status' on set. 'I was with him for three months and he wasn't like that with anyone else. It was some kind of mental thing I think,' he added. Despite his legendary status in Hollywood, Wayne has been criticized for years over a 1971 Playboy magazine interview in which he made bigoted statements against Black people, Native Americans and the LGBTQ community. 'I believe in white supremacy until the Blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people,' he said at the time. Wayne also said that although he didn't condone slavery, 'I don't feel guilty about the fact that five or 10 generations ago these people were slaves.' The actor added he felt no remorse in the subjugation of Native Americans. 'I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival,' he said. 'There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.' Wayne called movies such as Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy perverted, and used a gay slur to refer to the two main characters of the latter film. He was 63 when he made the remarks. During his career, Wayne was one of America's biggest box office draws for almost three decades. His most famous films include Rio Bravo, The Searchers, Stagecoach, and True Grit, which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. He died of stomach cancer in 1979 and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.
Gizmodo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The First Trailer for ‘Star Trek: Khan' Lifts the Lid on a Legend
Almost three years ago, Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer shocked the Star Trek universe when he announced that he would be returning to one of Trek's most iconic villains in Star Trek: Khan, a scripted podcast revealing the secret life of Khan Noonien Singh. Now, we have our first look at the series—and know when to expect it. During today's Star Trek Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Paramount revealed the first trailer for Khan, giving us a first listen at its cast in action. Set between the events of the iconic original series episode that introduced Khan, 'Space Seed', and its sequel film, Wrath of Khan, the podcast sees Naveen Andrews play the titular superhuman as he navigates the exile thrust upon him by Captain Kirk on Ceti Alpha V. Alongside Andrews, Star Trek: Khan will also star Wrenn Schmidt as Lieutenant Marla McGivers, the Starfleet historian played by Madlyn Rhue in 'Space Seed' who reluctantly aided Khan in his attempt to take over the Enterprise, and Sonya Cassidy as a new character named Doctor Rosalind Lear. In a surprise twist, they will be joined by two Star Trek legends: George Takei will once again reprise his role as Hikaru Sulu, former conn officer of the Enterprise and captain of the U.S.S. Excelsior, but he will also be joined by Voyager's Tim Russ. Russ will reprise his role as Tuvok, building on the Vulcan's backstory first explored in the season three anniversary episode 'Flashback', which revealed that Tuvok's first Starfleet commission saw him serve as a junior science officer aboard the Excelsior during the events of The Undiscovered Country. Star Trek: Khan will release as a weekly episodic podcast starting on September 8—better known as Star Trek Day, marking the franchise's 59th anniversary—with episodes dropping through November 6. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
CBC
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
For George Takei, coming out has been a lifelong process
Social Sharing At a young age, George Takei learned that he was different — and being perceived as different could be dangerous. The actor who's best known for playing Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek spent his childhood in two internment camps during the Second World War, when people of Japanese descent were forcibly and wrongfully incarcerated across the U.S. and Canada. Takei wrote about that experience in his 2019 graphic memoir, They Called Us Enemy. After the war ended, Takei and his family moved to a low-income neighbourhood of Los Angeles where he quickly discovered that there was something else about him that made him different: he was attracted to other boys. "I decided I didn't want to be different again," the actor tells Q guest host Talia Schlanger in an interview. "I started acting like the other boys…. I was able to build another kind of barbed wire fence, an invisible barbed wire fence that kept me confined in my body and not visibly identifiable." Now, Takei has released a new graphic memoir, It Rhymes with Takei, which unpacks his experience living as a closeted gay man until 2005, when he publicly came out at the age of 68. In the book, he explains that coming out isn't as simple as opening a door — it's a lifelong process. "I use the metaphor for a long, narrow, dark corridor," he says. "But then you come to a window that allows a little light in … and you keep walking down that corridor and you finally reach that doorknob and you make a decision: you grab it and you open it, ready for combat, if you will." After being punished for his differences in childhood, it's understandable why Takei was fearful of revealing his true self. Even just 20 years ago, he thought disclosing his sexual orientation would mark the end of his career. "But the very opposite happened," he says. "Media seemed to love it. And I started getting calls from CBS, NBC, ABC, from various magazine periodicals. They wanted to know the story behind gay George Takei. Or they wrote roles, like on The Big Bang Theory, for gay George Takei in my Star Trek uniform. And my career blossomed."
