Leonard Nimoy Cameo in Super 8
According to the following article, Leonard Nimoy, an actor like many has worked with JJ Abrams on other Bad Robot Productions, has an un-credited cameo in the film Super 8.
J.J. Abrams has revealed that actor Leonard Nimoy appears in Super 8.
In an interview with Collider, Abrams stated that there are a number of hidden features in the highly secretive movie, including the Star Trek actor.
"Leonard Nimoy is in the movie somewhere if you can find him," Abrams said. http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/star-trek/news/a323471/jj-abrams-leonard-nimoy-is-in-super-8/
I have never been able to find the cameo and was wondering if anyone has ever found it/knows where it is?
Best Answer
According to this blog post, his name appears on a can that a character holds in the "home video".
The part of the post says:
Also, thanks queequeg for point out that the Leonard Nimoy “cameo” in Super 8 was the name Nimoy appearing on a can one of the characters holds in the home video. If we see it again, I’ll be on the look out for it!
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Who is the boy in Super 8?
Actor Joel Courtney. Before starring as Joe Lamb in J.J. Abrams' "Super 8," Joel Courtney was just a regular 15-year-old in Moscow, Idaho. With no previous acting experience, Courtney was catapulted onto the big screen opposite Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning.Is Super 8 a true story?
"Super 8" was inspired by real life, when 16-year-old film prodigies Abrams and Matt Reeves, winners of a student festival, were chosen by "Jaws" director Steven Spielberg to repair his childhood Super 8 movies.What was the accident in Super 8?
A pickup truck drives into the oncoming train, derailing it, and one of the carriages is smashed open while a Super 8 camera films.Was the movie Super 8 filmed on Super 8?
Paramount also hired 700 local residents to be extras in nearly every scene of the movie. Production still of Super 8 via Google. Filming for Super 8 began on September 20, 2010 and continued for 23 days through October 17. Paramount filmed at nearly 25 locations in Weirton.L'addio a Leonard Nimoy, il signor Spock di Star Trek
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Answer 2
There was a picture of the TOS cast on a wall in one of the kids' bedroom. I'm pretty sure it was in the "movie within the movie" but I'm not positive. I'll see if I can get a screen shot and attach it to my answer.
Nimoy himself, as a live actor, was not in the movie.
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