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Well, you've been waiting three years for it and here it finally is--The first glimpse of footage from Star Trek into Darkness, a one-minute long teaser trailer that does nothing but let you know shit is not good across the galaxy. Things are blowing up, people are jumping off cliffs, ships are terrorizing London and that cool guy from Sherlock is giving some gritty, Christian Bale-esque gravely voice over. To make up for the 60 seconds of destruction and mayhem, we're also given glimpses of Zoe Saldana and Alice Eve, who by the look her miniskirt is getting from Chris Pine's Captain Kirk could possibly be playing Carol Markus, mother-to-be of Kirk's future son.
The best part of the teaser is definitely the first look at Benedict Cumberbatch as...Well, it's still not clear what villain he's playing. J.J. Abrams and Co. are playing it pretty close to the vest on this one, even though the film's release is six months away. There are suggestions and confirmed then unconfirmed reports he's playing Khan (with or without Wrath, still not clear), while others say he's playing a character called Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell, another original series holdover. Maybe the full trailer released before The Hobbit on the 14th will shed more light as to who the Enterprise is flying into darkness to defeat.
Who is John Harrison and Why is Benedict Cumberbatch Playing Him in ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’
We've been kept in the dark over the true nature of Benedict Cumberbatch's villainous role in Star Trek Into Darkness. We all assumed he was playing a less Mexican version of Khan noonien Singh, the genetially enhance superhuman who took over part of the Earth in revolution was frozen and cast off into space only to be thawed out and marooned by Kirk and Co., spending years on a desolate planet until Chekov made the mistake of showing up on the wrong planet. Then we thought he was playing Gary Mitchell, a TOS character and friend of Kirk who eventually grows crazy from telekinetic powers and has to be killed by Kirk before he can harm the ship and crew.
But now, we're officially being told from Paramount that Cumberbatch will in fact be playing John Harrison. In Trek canon, Harrison is a TOS crew-member who did happen to appear in 'Space Seed', the episode that introduced Khan as a character. So is B. Cum playing a former Fleet officer, out for revenge for some reason? Or is this name just a pseudonym in order for him to gain access to get that vengeance he seems to want so badly from the first trailer. Is he still actually playing Khan? Read More » »