Two months ago, it was rumoured that Russell Crowe had been approached about playing the bad guy in the new Star Trek movie. Now comes word, via Variety magazine, that Eric Bana has signed for the part — a character named Nero. “Plot details and even character descriptions . . . are being kept under wraps,” reports the trade paper, but if there is one thing we can say about this villain, it is that he apparently needed to be an Aussie.
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