Nathan Fillion has confirmed that his character will clash with the new police captain when Castle returns.

Penny Johnson Jerald recently signed up to play Victoria Gates, who is replacing Captain Montgomery in the ABC show.

Fillion has now told Collider that Castle will begin to realise that Montgomery had motives for keeping him around.

“What we discover is that Roy Montgomery had a reason to have Castle there,” he said. “He had an interest in Beckett and felt a responsibility towards her. He knew she was haunted, knew she was tortured, and saw the effect that Castle had on her. So he had an interest in keeping Castle close.

“The new captain, not so much. She’s not invested in these cops, and certainly not Castle, the way that Montgomery was. It’s going to be much more difficult for Castle.”

Fillion also suggested that Castle will be thrown when he realises that Gates does not respond to his charm.

“Castle is accustomed to being surrounded by women,” he said. “He’s accustomed to people adoring him. He thinks pretty highly of himself, he thinks he’s pretty charming, and he’s never had a lot of trouble in that area.

“But when you have someone like our new captain who is not swayed by his charms, who does not see a use for him being around when she has plenty of good cops, you have someone who’s a thorn in Castle’s side. But Castle is not someone who takes failure to heart.”

Fillion added: “I don’t know if it’s so much about proving himself, to Castle anyway… For me, right now, it’s about, ‘Can Castle get his way?’ Castle is very accustomed to getting his way.” [Source]

At Comic-Con 2011 Nathan Fillion revealed that he wants to use the powers of ‘Inception’ to get the role of Nathan Drake in Sony’s ‘Uncharted’ movie.

Uncharted, one of Sony’s biggest video game-turned potential movie adaptations, has endured a rough year. Back in October, Academy Award-nominated director David O. Russell was signed as the Uncharted helmer. One month later, Russell began talking-up his now controversial “family dynamic” angle and brought-on Mark Wahlberg to star as fan-favorite adventurer, Nathan Drake.

However, through all the ups and downs that led to the eventual exit of the director (and subsequently Wahlberg as well), one thing remained constant – many fans were still holding-out hope that Castle star, Nathan Fillion, would get a crack at playing Drake on the big screen. Unsurprisingly, Fillion is still very interested in the role – but on one very respectable condition.

At Comic-Con 2011, we got a chance to catch-up with Fillion about the recently vacated starring role (and director’s chair) for the Uncharted movie, and while the actor was forthcoming about his interest in the part, he made it clear that he didn’t want to step on newly-signed director Neil Burger‘s shoes – but also wasn’t above trying “Inception” if it’d help his chances:

“I am certainly still interested in playing Nathan Drake. I think every actor I know wants their action-adventure hero, their Indiana Jones. That would be a good one for me, I think. What I don’t want is people pressuring that poor man [director Neil Burger] and souring him on the actual idea. If we could somehow just… do you remember the movie Inception? I think that’s what we need to do. We need to let him land on the idea on his own.”

Fillion’s respectful petition for the part is no doubt in response to the growing mass of Uncharted fans who have pushed the boundary between a passionate appeal and flat-out harassing ex-director Russell for casting anyone but their top choice. While Russell’s approach to the film and casting differed dramatically from the source material – and would be, many argued, Uncharted in name alone – fans were especially harsh in their reaction to the director’s attempt at bringing the franchise to the big screen.

It’s great to see that Fillion, who no doubts wants to headline his own “action-adventure hero film,” is interested in seeing the best Uncharted film that Neil Burger can make – even if it means that he misses out on the opportunity to play Nathan Drake. It’s hard to imagine Burger will experiment with as many liberties as Russell, especially considering Sony was reportedly against the “family dynamic” idea, and as a result, it’s unlikely that they’d have signed-off on an Uncharted film that was so disconnected from the game. Regardless, the Castle star’s approach to the situation is good food-for-thought for any fans who will be crestfallen if Burger also passes on Fillion.

That said, it probably wouldn’t hurt for an exceptionally dedicated (and brainy) fan to get to work on an Inception-like dream machine – Nathan Fillion (and plenty of fans) would undoubtedly be grateful.
Credit: screenrant.com

Thanks to nowknow411 for both taking and posting the Castel Comic-Con panel from last night onto youtube.

Here is the Castle season 4 sneak peek that was on at Comic-Con its very LQ but still better then nothing. I hope the full HQ verison will come online soon.