Zachary Quinto Talks Wall Street Drama Margin Call, Star Trek,
Comes Out  by Anne Thompson October 17, 2011 5:38 AM 1 Comment
• |  Thompson on Hollywood This week Zachary Quinto came out in
New York Magazine, as major studio production Star Trek 2 ramps
up for a January start with him on board as Spock, who memorably
romances Zoe Saldana in the film. Quinto has also launched indie
production company Before the Door Pictures, which started off
with film school dropout-turned-commercial director J.C.
Chandor's $3.5 million Wall Street drama Margin Call, featuring
a strong ensemble including Quinto, Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons,
Paul Bettany, Stanley Tucci and Demi Moore. The film debuted at
Sundance, where U.S. rights sold to Lionsgate/Roadside
Attractions for $2 million (here's TOH's Sundance story). The
movie couldn't be more timely, with the Occupy Wall Street
movement building steam and dominating global headlines.
Chandor, whose father was an exec at Merrill Lynch, wrote the
film about a fictional mammoth