{"id":38189,"date":"2012-05-22T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38189"},"modified":"2012-05-22T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T14:45:35","slug":"nathan-drake-lands-up-in-star-trek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38189-nathan-drake-lands-up-in-star-trek-2","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Drake lands up in Star Trek 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most well known voice in the video game world is that of <a title=\"Nolan North\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/25088-Nolan-North\">Nolan North&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran motion-capture and voice artist, who has played Nathan Drake in Uncharted as well as over 100 other roles (<a title=\"Wikipedia - Nolan North voice roles\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nolan_North#Video_game_roles\" target=\"_blank\">seriously, this guy doesn&#8217;t&#8217; stop<\/a>), is about to take another journey out of the voice booth and onto the big-screen.<\/p>\n<p>North has been cast in the upcoming sequel to 2009&#8217;s Star Trek reboot, which saw director J.J. Abrams take over and produce a film that was acclaimed by critics, and more importantly, Star Trek fans.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams is apparently a huge fan of the Uncharted series, and upon meeting Nolan North, asked the voice actor if he&#8217;d like a part in the Star Trek follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just worked on Star Trek 2 with J. J. Abrams,&#8221; he revealed to Eurogamer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason I did that movie &#8211; it&#8217;s a very small role &#8211; but it&#8217;s because he and his son are huge fans of Uncharted. I met him doing some work on Super 8 and he said &#8216;We&#8217;re doing Start Trek, you wanna do it?&#8217; And I said I&#8217;d love to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a huge fan of gaming and he was telling me how people just don&#8217;t understand [the medium] yet, but they&#8217;re going to catch up. They don&#8217;t understand how amazing this technology is and it doesn&#8217;t get the respect it deserves, but if it keeps making the money it makes you&#8217;re going to see more and more people converted.<\/p>\n<p>The vocal work of Nolan North can be heard in the upcoming 2K shooter Spec Ops: The Line, in which he plays protagonist Captain Martin Walker, a special ops soldier sent into a sandstorm-ravaged Dubai in search of a former army Colonel.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Nolan North cast in Star Trek 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-05-21-nolan-north-wins-part-in-star-trek-2-off-the-back-of-uncharted\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"..\/features\/28129-one-voice-many-faces-video-game-voice-actors.html\">One voice, many faces: video game voice actors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Watch Snake\u2019s voice actor blow up Snake\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36907-watch-snakes-voice-actor-blow-up-snake.html\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Snake&#8217;s voice actor blow up Snake<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"..\/videos\/35548-quantum-conundrum-trailer-reveals-voice-acting-talent.html\">Quantum Conundrum trailer reveals voice acting talent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36217-conan-gets-voicy-with-halo-4.html\">Conan gets voicy with Halo 4<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/32019-spec-ops-the-line-preview-explore-the-darkness-of-humanity.html\">Spec Ops: The Line preview \u2013 explore the darkness of humanity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncharted voice actor grabs big-screen casting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":38205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,4446,497,4444,4445,485],"class_list":["post-38189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-jj-abrams","tag-nathan-drake","tag-nolan-north","tag-star-trek-2","tag-uncharted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38210,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38189\/revisions\/38210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}