Star Trek Cast Voice Overs Announced for the Game
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PARAMOUNT PICTURES AND NAMCO BANDAI GAMES ANNOUNCE
ACTORS CHRIS PINE AND ZACHARY QUINTO TO REPRISE ICONIC FILM ROLES AS KIRK AND SPOCK
FOR UPCOMING STAR TREK™ VIDEO GAME
Pine and Quinto Lend Their Voice and Likeness to Highly Anticipated Video Game Releasing In 2013
LOS
ANGELES, CA – (June 5, 2012) – Paramount Pictures and leading video
game publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today
announced that actors Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto who starred as
Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock in producer and director J.J.
Abrams’ Star Trek (2009) film reboot, will reprise their roles in the Star Trek™
video game. The highly anticipated co-op game is set to release in
early 2013 on Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system from
Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC.
“We
are thrilled to have these incredible actors, lending their voice to
the legendary characters of Kirk and Spock in the video game realm,”
said LeeAnne Stables, Paramount Pictures’ President of Consumer Products
and head of the studio’s video game unit. “Players are in for a truly
authentic experience with the combination of talent we have assembled
bringing this action adventure game to life.”
In
addition to Pine and Quinto, other actors from the 2009 film are
depicted in the game including actress Zoe Saldana, in the role of
Lieutenant Uhura, Simon Pegg as the benevolent Scotty, Karl Urban as the
beloved Dr. “Bones” McCoy, John Cho as Sulu and Anton Yelchin as
Chekov.
“There are certain elements at the core of Star Trek
– insurmountable odds, exploration, villains like the Gorn and heroes
like Kirk and Spock,” said Carlson Choi, VP of Marketing and NAMCO
BANDAI Games America Inc. “Our goal is to pull gamers as deep into the Star Trek universe as possible and an integral part of that is the talent that make these characters their own."
The game’s original story is being penned by BAFTA award winner and God of War writer Marianne Krawczyk in collaboration with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, writers and producers for the upcoming Star Trek film. Built from the ground up as the ultimate co-op experience, the Star Trek video
game lets players control both Kirk and Spock in a sweeping journey of
epic proportions across unexplored planets and enemy battleships with
the latest 23rd century weapons and gear. Kirk and Spock’s complementary
personalities result in the most fully realized and varied co-op
experiences for this console generation.
Under a license from CBS Consumer Products, Star Trek is being developed by Ontario-based developer Digital Extremes (Bioshock 2, Unreal Tournament, Dark Sector, The Darkness II) with production being overseen by Brian Miller, Senior Vice President at Paramount Pictures and Game Producer.
For more information on the Star Trek video game, please visit www.startrekgame.com and follow the game on Twitter at www.twitter.com/star_trek_game.
For more information about NAMCO BANDAI Games, please visit http://www.namcobandaigames.com.
© 2012 Paramount Pictures Corporation.
® & © 2012 CBS Studios Inc. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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About Paramount Pictures Corporation
Paramount
Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed
entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), a leading
content company with prominent and respected film, television and
digital entertainment brands. Paramount controls a collection of some of
the most powerful brands in filmed entertainment, including Paramount
Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics,
Insurge Pictures, MTV Films, and Nickelodeon Movies. PPC operations also
include Paramount Famous Productions, Paramount Home Media
Distribution, Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Licensing
Inc., and Paramount Studio Group.