New Trek film news.....Khan is back

[emeraldknight47]

I certainly hope so. I mean, one of the main reason STII:TWOK worked so well was because it actually had an old back story to draw from, that being the TOS episode "Space Seed". Without that back story, and without the then noble and tragic death of Spock, would TWOK still be considered, as it is by many, to be the best of the theatrical TREKs? Dunno. But I don't think you can try to artificially compress both the episode and the movie into a new film and expect it to garner the same respect or emotional reasonance. Just my humble opinion...

[Thor]

They are falling into the same rut again. I like the original Khan but they should let the past stay that way. I would like to see a new enemy or entirely new situation.

[Werewolf]

So, Khan is British now?

[Bruce Banner]

So, Khan is British now?

Maybe Cumberbatch will do the most convincing Indian accent ever?
Still, I guess it matters little. Even the great Ricardo Montalbán just played Khan with his own natural Latino accent.

But I still won't believe this until it's officially confirmed.
It does seem like very unlikely casting for the role.

[trekman101]

Cumberbatch Scrambled To Get Villain Part TrekToday
It's official....also Leonard Nimoy returns as spock Prime and the Klingons are back

This site updates a lot and the link to the full story including the sources move around(I had to look around to find the info myself) but this is what was reported on 4/30/12

[trekman101]

The TrekMovie site has the following info:

Major Star Trek Sequel Spoilers | TrekMovie.com

This was one of the links I read myself

[Bruce Banner]

Interestingly, Simon Pegg has said that the character Cumberbatch plays is defintely not Khan.

How Simon Pegg became a big fish - Telegraph

This time, Pegg isn’t the only Brit in the world of Starfleet. Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast as a villain. Pegg is full of praise for Cumberbatch’s baddy, whom he describes as “not just another disgruntled alien. It’s a really interesting… sort of… thing,” he squirms. “Obviously I can’t talk about it.” Given internet rumours that Cumberbatch has been cast as Kirk and Spock nemesis Khan, will this be a very different “wrath of Khan” from the 1982 film of the same name? “It’s not Khan,” replies Pegg, annoyed. “That’s a myth. Everyone’s saying it is, but it’s not.”

Is that misinformation from the famously secretive Abrams camp? “No, I think people just want to have a scoop. It annoys me – it’s beyond the point to just ferret around for spoilers all the time to try to be the first to break them,” says Pegg, a fanboy’s fanboy who wrote an autobiography called Nerd Do Well and who seems to have forgotten that part of the thrill of being a comic book/film/sci-fi fan is about getting as many details as possible in advance. “It just spoils the film,” he complains. “It masquerades as interest in the movie but really it’s just nosiness and impatience. You just want to say, ‘Oh f--- off! Wait for the film!’”

[emeraldknight47]

Well if this is true, then good. As indicated earlier, I would much rather have a Khan-less TREK than one where he is foisted upon the audience with similar expectations to ST:II...

[ddgaff1132]

If Abrams is so smart. Maybe he can explain why Klingons looked human in TOS and less so in later incarnations.

[mego73]

They explained it in Enterprise