Deadline Hollywood – Since he dropped out of Harvey, Steven Spielberg’s first project under the reconstituted DreamWorks has been a subject of much speculation. Now I hear who’s at the center of the director’s biopic of George Gershwin, which DreamWorks acquired last fall. It’s Zachary Quinto — Sylar in the NBC drama-fantasy Heroes, and Spock in the JJ Abrams-directed megapic Star Trek. Quinto will play the famed composer and pianist, who with brother Ira was responsible for more than a dozen Broadway shows before dying at 38. DreamWorks is even supplying accent and dialogue coaches for Quinto, and shooting could begin as soon as April. Doug Wright wrote the script, and Marc Platt and singer/pianist Michael Feinstein are producing. A DreamWorks insider says this is one of 3 projects Spielberg is looking at for his next piccause he’s anxious to get back to work. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an announcement later this week.

Zach in a Spielberg movie? YES! YES! YES!

Next January 28 Zach will be live at Peter Jay Sharp theater, in New York, in a one-night-only presentation of “The Issues Projects: Collected Plays”.

In a star-studded celebration of the recent publication of The Issues Projects: Collected Plays, Naked Angels presents a one-night only, blast-from-the-past benefit performance with selected pieces from the company’s first anthology. Following a one-hour program, hosted and directed by Artistic Director Geoffrey Nauffts, guests will be invited to a VIP reception with the artists. Ticket includes an autographed copy of the book.

More information can be found here: nakedangels.com/playing/

This was posted by Zach on his official facebook page. He appeared in an episode of “Yoda & Me“, that chronicles the lives of Bill and his new roommate Yoda.

Episode 7: Empire Outtakes
Bill unearths outtake footage of Yoda filming “The Empire Strikes Back.” With special guest star Zachary Quinto (“Star Trek” and “Heroes”).

Listen now:

Zachary Quinto is close to landing his first post Star Trek role in the romantic comedy Whirligig. Quinto would play a man who tries to woo an older woman and ends up becoming buddies with her son in this Canadian indie. Quinto has been super selective about his next film role and several contingencies must be met before he officially signs on. The first: casting Jennifer Coolidge as the older woman. Chaz Thorne is directing the pic, based on a screenplay by Michael Amo, creator of the Canadian supernatural series “The Listener.”[Risky Business/THR]

All-Star Cast Performs for One Performance Only to Benefit the Matthew Shepard Foundation

Scheduled to perform are:

Zachary Quinto (Heroes, Star Trek), James Cromwell (Surrogates, Babe), Pauley Perrette and Michael Weatherly (NCIS), Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki (Big Bang Theory), Julie Benz (Dexter), Lisa Edelstein (House), Barrett Foa (NCIS: Los Angeles), Helen Shaver (Desert Hearts, The 4400) and Emmy Award-winner Christian Clemenson (Boston Legal).

Directed by actress/ director Jillian Armenante.

General seating tickets for the event are $25.00 and can be purchased at the church or by calling 323-874-2104 (ext 303). (There is a $2 service fee for credit card transactions).

All proceeds benefit The Matthew Shepard Foundation. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW. IT WILL SELL OUT.
Following the performance, coffee and dessert will be served.

LARAMIE 10 YEARS LATER is a sequel to The Laramie Project, which first premiered February 2000 at the Ricketson Theatre in Denver, Colorado. The play, The Laramie Project, was the basis for the 2002 critically acclaimed HBO Original Film starring Camryn Manheim, Joshua Jackson and Christina Ricci. The sequel picks up ten years later. The attitudes and the events that have transpired over those ten years are quite shocking, as members of the Tectonic Theatre Company return to Laramie and discover that many issues are still unresolved. [Source]

The video debuted today at FunnyOrDie! and you can read more about it on the Before the Door’s project page.

Before the Door » Short Movies » Hostage (2009) screencaptures

Zachary Quinto is coming to a computer near you. The Heroes star will be starring in Hank Nelken’s short film Hostage: A Love Story, which is set to premiere on Funnyordie.com tomorrow.

The short movie will be viewable for free starting September 2 on the website, and will star Quinto alongside Roberta Valderrama, who is most notable for appearing in twenty-one episodes of the series 10 Items Or Less.

Heroes season three is out on DVD today, and you can see Quinto in action when the fourth season of the drama premieres later this month.

If Zachary Quinto isn’t careful he’ll wind up on America’s Most Wanted one day.

The Star Trek star found himself answering to cops recently while filming an upcoming Funny or Die video at L.A. bakery Kiss My Bundt.

In the comedy bit, he plays a pistol-wielding robber.

“When someone saw Zach hold up a real gun and scream, ‘This is a goddamn hold up!’ they called the police,” Bundt owner Chrysta Wilson tells us.

And get this, the cops were called a second time during another take of the same scene.

Wilson said she’s not surprised the make-believe drama appeared to be real…

“Zachary is scary as hell,” she says. “I was in the back, making batter, and he was running through the script. All I could hear was, ‘Nobody f–king move!’ He plays evil very well.”

Quinto and director Hank Nelken realized they better tone things down if they wanted to get their work done.

“They knew if the cops were called again, the set was going to be shut down,” Wilson says. “They were whispering their lines in the alley. They knew they had to nail it on the last take.”

—Reporting by Dahvi Shira and Erica Stein to E!Online