It’s with the heaviest of hearts that I have to report that Anton Yelchin has passed way at the age of twenty seven. A young actor of incredible talent who got better each time he appeared on screen, he was pronounced dead earlier today after a freak car accident found him pinned to a security gate outside his home. After getting his break on ER in 2000, Yeltchin rose to prominence with roles in Hearts in Atlantis and Along Came a Spider before getting his big break playing Zack Mazursky in 2006’s Alpha Dog. This lead to him taking the lead role in the criminally underrated Charlie Bartlett, which saw him go toe to toe with a Robert Downey Jr. at the start of his comeback, which itself lead to Yelchin breaking into the mainstream with 2009, bringing his charisma and charm to the roles of Chekov in JJ Abrams’s Star Trek reboot and Kyle Reese in Terminator: Salvation.
Yelchin’s career went from strength to strength, stepping into the shoes of Charlie Brewster in 2011’s Fright Night remake before rubbing shoulders with Mel Gibson in The Beaver, and lending his voice to Clumsy Smurf to a handful of The Smurfs movies and short films. His career is dotted with smaller, more intimate indie fare such as Like, Crazy, Odd Thomas, and Rudderless standing shoulder to shoulder with his bigger budget work, a trend that continues this Summer with Green Room, released just a few short weeks ago, and the upcoming Star Trek Beyond. Yelchin was a tremendous talent whose future was brighter than supernova, and his absence from the cinematic landscape will be sorely felt. The thoughts of all of us here at The Movie Bit are with his family and friends at this trying time.
Yelchin’s career went from strength to strength, stepping into the shoes of Charlie Brewster in 2011’s Fright Night remake before rubbing shoulders with Mel Gibson in The Beaver, and lending his voice to Clumsy Smurf to a handful of The Smurfs movies and short films. His career is dotted with smaller, more intimate indie fare such as Like, Crazy, Odd Thomas, and Rudderless standing shoulder to shoulder with his bigger budget work, a trend that continues this Summer with Green Room, released just a few short weeks ago, and the upcoming Star Trek Beyond. Yelchin was a tremendous talent whose future was brighter than supernova, and his absence from the cinematic landscape will be sorely felt. The thoughts of all of us here at The Movie Bit are with his family and friends at this trying time.
