This Friday will be a of goodies with the opening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, plus a nine minute preview of Star Trek Into Darkness to be shown before Hobbit in select IMAX theaters. To tide you over until then, some new details of the upcoming Star Trek sequel have recently been released. The names of two new characters have finally been revealed. Spoilers ahoy!
First, Benedict Cumberbatch’s long debated role will be…John Harrison. No, I haven’t heard of him either, and it’s quite possible that this is just an alias of his, so the debate over who he is (and if he’ll be a certain someone whose name rhymes with Ghan) will no doubt continue. However, the second name revealed only increases the rumored connection between the new film and Wrath of Khan. Alice Eve, who you can glimpse briefly in the first trailer released last week, will be playing Dr. Carol Marcus. For anyone who needs some refreshing of their Trek history, Dr. Marcus was first introduced in Wrath of Khan, played by Bibi Besch, and she was the mother of Kirk’s son, David. Will this new timeline feature a similar romance between the two? Chris Pine, in an interview with MTV, says that there won’t be much room for romance in between all the action, but we’ll have to wait and see.
Star Trek Into Darkness will be released May 17, 2013. What do you think of this latest news? Are the parallels to Wrath of Khan telling or just a red herring? Let us know in the comments below!
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I do not understand Abrams’ insistence on playing coy. I guess he wants it to be a surprise, but then maybe he shouldn’t cast a high-profile actor. I don’t think people would care nearly as much if it was a nobody actor. Or, he shouldn’t have that character be the primary focus of the trailer, if he still doesn’t want to reveal who the person is. Or list the peoples’ names. This is what Nolan did with Dark Knight Rises and JGL and Marion Cotillard’s characters as well; they were noticable names, had a heavy presence in the trailer, and then their names were released and they were nobodies. Then the movie came along, and they were who everyone thought they were, and it was almost more underwhelming. I’m just saying, there’s a way to preserve the mystery, and there’s just being annoying, and I think he’s starting to fall into the latter category.
I think that having the character of Carol Marcus still doesn’t necessarily mean that the Cumberlord is Khan, because this could just be the story of how David gets, um, made. We’ll just have to wait and see. I guess I’m just veering more into annoyed territory than intrigued.