{"id":1450,"date":"2007-07-21T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/07\/matt-damon-admits-hes-too-old-to-play-kirk\/"},"modified":"2007-07-21T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T09:52:00","slug":"matt-damon-admits-hes-too-old-to-play-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/07\/matt-damon-admits-hes-too-old-to-play-kirk.html","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon admits he&#8217;s too old to play Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">As I have been saying <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/i-thought-i-said-no-more-matt-damon.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">for months<\/a> now, Matt Damon is simply too old to play \u201cthe young Kirk\u201d in the new <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/newsbites-trek-tintin-300-friends.html#1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Trek<\/a><\/i> movie.  He is, in fact, older now than William Shatner was when the series began.  Thankfully, Damon has now finally put that rumour to rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.ign.com\/articles\/807\/807142p1.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> if the video file above doesn\u2019t play properly.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have been saying for months now, Matt Damon is simply too old to play \u201cthe young Kirk\u201d in the new Star Trek movie. He is, in fact, older now than William Shatner was when the series began. Thankfully, Damon has now finally put that rumour to rest. 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