Captain Kirk Works Hard For the Money

God bless Chris Pine and/or his agent. He’s doing exactly what he should be to help his career in the long run. After exploding with Star Trek this past summer, he made the logical choice of taking on a role that didn’t involve science fiction, space, etc. Show the general public he can be more than just Captain Kirk in their eyes while there’s still time to avoid type-casting.

First he signed up to co-star in the Tony Scott/Denzel Washington action Unstoppable (which for awhile looked like it wasn’t happening). With that about to wrap filming, Pine has lined up another gig before commanding the U.S. Enterprise for its sophomore voyage – whenever that will happen.

As per Variety, he’ll headline The Art of Making Money, based on a Rolling Stone article-turned-book, playing counterfeiter Art Williams. D.J. Caruso will be sitting in the director’s chair with production possibly commencing at the start of 2010.

Hell if Pine will fit a third project into his schedule before the Star Trek sequel starts up, I say go for it. Maybe it’s just me, but I get the impression he knows that his current gravy-train with Trek won’t be long-term as say the Shat had it.