{"id":3054,"date":"2011-03-31T21:20:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T01:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2011-03-31T21:20:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T01:20:47","slug":"leonard-nimoy-joins-transformers-dark-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/leonard-nimoy-joins-transformers-dark-of-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Nimoy joins Transformers: Dark of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.timeinc.net\/ew\/dynamic\/imgs\/110331\/leonard-nimoy_320.jpg\" alt=\"leonard-nimoy\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.timeinc.net\/ew\/dynamic\/imgs\/110112\/transformers-3_320.jpg\" alt=\"transformers-3\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Leonard Nimoy, has joined the film Transformers: Dark of the Moon as the voice of  Sentinel Prime, the predecessor of Optimus Prime whose wrecked body is  seen in the teaser trailer, found crash-landed on the moon by the Apollo  11 astronauts in 1969. Later, after being brought to earth, he takes  the disguise form of a fire engine in the movie\u2019s massive, climactic  battle through Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from his obvious <em>Star Trek<\/em> cred, Nimoy also has a history with Transfomers: He was the voice of Galvatron in 1986\u2032s <em>The<\/em> <em>Transformers: The Movie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Transformers<\/em> filmmaker Michael Bay had toyed with the idea of inviting him to play a voice in the second movie, <em>Revenge of the Fallen<\/em>,  but wasn\u2019t sure he could pay the veteran actor enough. \u201cI was too  scared to ask him,\u201d the director says. \u201cPlus, he\u2019s married to Susan Bay,  who\u2019s a cousin of mine. So I had to be careful. I\u2019ve met him at family  functions. But he told me, \u2018I would be honored. I\u2019m glad to be back!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bay has been open about changing course with this third <em>Transformers<\/em> movie and making a stronger story than the critically pulverized last  one. He says part of that is giving the metallic characters a bit more  soul, even if they\u2019re villains. \u201cThe robots have more character in this  movie. Much more. You really understand their struggle, on both sides  actually,\u201d Bay says.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-D <em>Transformers: Dark of the Moon<\/em> opens July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Nimoy, has joined the film Transformers: Dark of the Moon as the voice of Sentinel Prime, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}