Quinto logical choice to narrate Nimoy doc
Adam Nimoy has found a way to spend countless hours with his late father Leonard Nimoy: He’s creating a documentary about the actor who played Spock on Star Trek.
Nimoy said the Spockumentary funded through a Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $600,000 will focus on the pop icon and his legacy.
The TV director and film professor said it would explore his father’s onscreen and off-screen life.
For the Love of Spock began as a project for the father and son duo before Leonard’s Nimoy’s death in February at age 83.
Nimoy said his father wanted to keep it Spock-centric, but once he passed he knew he had to include more about his father.
“I think it’s going to be a nice kind of way just to work through all these feelings I am having and to move on with my own life,” Nimoy said.
Nimoy turned to crowdfunding because he was not getting the financial support he expected from studios.
The documentary will include clips from the Star Trek films and TV shows, Nimoy’s other works and interviews from fans and family as well as William Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk; J.J. Abrams, who directed the 2009 film reboot; and celebrity fans like Seth McFarlane.
Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the new movie franchise, will narrate the film.
“Dad passed the torch to Zachary. He is the anointed one to carry on the tradition of Mr. Spock and all that entails,” Nimoy said.
“He’s now such a part of the tradition that it just seems like he would be a major force to really come up with a dynamic product.”
This will be Nimoy’s second project with his dad: He previously produced Leonard Nimoy’s Boston, a documentary about his father’s childhood in Boston.
“(We had to) work on our own issues before we were able to rebound together and have the loving relationship we had the last five years of our lives,” he said.
For the Love of Spock is expected to be released in time for the 50th anniversary of the Star Trek series in 2016.