Cumberbatch Scrambled To Get Villain Part TrekToday
It's official....also Leonard Nimoy returns as spock Prime and the Klingons are back
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New Trek film news.....Khan is back
Cumberbatch Scrambled To Get Villain Part TrekToday
It's official....also Leonard Nimoy returns as spock Prime and the Klingons are back
Last edited by trekman101; Apr 30, '12 at 10:23 PM.
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Sounds great and I am looking forward to it but somehow, I wish the new movie was about them doing something like "exploring a strange new world" and "seek new life forms"
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I wish JJ would have been more creative and came up with something new instead of copping out with retelling old stories and "brewery" engine rooms
"Thats the ticket laddie"
I read the article from the link, but I'm not sure where you're getting Khan out of it?
Personally, I'd rather NOT see another take on Khan. I'm quite happy with Ricardo Montalban's Khan, thanks much.
Ditto on exploring strange NEW worlds. C'mon JJ and Co.---blow us away. Show us some s**t we've NEVER seen before...!!!!
Oh then, what's this? Big flashy lighty thing, that's what brought me here! Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually. But give me time. And a crayon.
If they did revisit an old story I wish it would have been The Doomsday Machine
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I L-O-V-E "The Doomsday Machine." One of my favorite TOS episodes EVER! If they did decide to revisit it on the big screen, I wonder if they would incorporate any of the backstory that it was actually a weapon meant to take on a Borg cube. Now THAT would be oh-so cool!Originally Posted by Mikey
If they did revisit an old story I wish it would have been The Doomsday Machine
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Just read the article myself...absolutely no mention of Khan or Klingons. Not even implied...where are you getting this from?
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???? I see nothing about Khan or Klingons there.
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The TrekMovie site has the following info:
Major Star Trek Sequel Spoilers | TrekMovie.com
Spoiler 2: Cumberbatch is playing Khan
TrekMovie was first in reporting that Benedict Cumberbatch had joined the Star Trek sequel cast, to play a villain (originally a role offered to Benecio del Toro). A few outlets have also reported (including today’s AICN) that this villain was Trek’s most famous bad guy – the exiled Eugenics War leader Khan Noonien Singh (originally played by Ricardo Montalban). TrekMovie has also confirmed this with a number of sources so we no longer consider it to be a rumor. Khan is back in 2013, however sources indicate that the film is not a rehash of "Space Seed," the original Star Trek episode where Kirk and crew first encounter the genetic superman from the past.
While big news, this is actually not a huge surprise. Trek’s new filmmakers have often cited the Christopher Nolan’s Batman series as their model, with the second film The Dark Knight successfully brining back the Joker and Khan is the closest to Trek gets to Batman’s Joker. And again the team kind of already let the cat out of the bag on this one when they recorded the DVD commentary back in 2009 and said they had considered a post-credits sceene showing the Botany Bay, Khan’s sleeper ship. Then of course there is Abrams widely reported casting process which began with Benecio del Toro and went through a number other prominent Latino (like Montalban) actors before he ended up picking Cumberbatch, after what has been said to be a very powerful audition.
Spoiler 3: Klingons featured in Star Trek sequel
This third spoiler is not something from the new AICN report, but multiple TrekMovie sources have confirmed that the Klingons will be featured in the Star Trek sequel. Of course Klingons were were originally going to be part of the 2009 movie as well – in a subplot where they had captured Nero and his crew after the destruction of the USS Kelvin, however those scenes were cut from the final release (but did appear on the DVD/Blu-ray). TrekMovie sources indicate that this time the Klingons are not a sub-plot that could be easily cut out of the film, so we will finally see the JJ-verse version of Klingons on the big screen.
This spoiler seems to be a no brainer. The Klingons are likely Star Trek’s best known adversary aliens, and they appeared in most of the movies featuring the original cast. The intent was to put them in the last one and fans have been asking for Klingons to make the cut for the sequel.
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I still think the Khan spoiler is just a rumor to throw us off because J.J. wants to surprise us.
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