Whether Benedict Cumberbatch is Robert April, Khan or some other canon character entirely, he’s going to be awesomely evil judging from this new international Star Trek Into Darkness trailer. He’s also going to speak in a measured and lordly British accent that will surely have him competing with Ben Kingsley’s the Mandarin for Affected Villain Voice of 2013. That said, he does get some good lines in this clip. My favorite: “I will walk over your cold corpses,” although the “I am better” exchange with Kirk is pretty effective, too. There’s plenty to look at in this trailer, including glimpses of Peter Weller in an alarming hairstyle, Alice Eve in black lingerie and some white-knuckle space-travel scenes: Kirk and crew thread the needle in a shuttle and the video climaxes with some new shots of that starship — hard to tell if it’s the Enterprise — making an unplanned water landing on Earth. More on Star Trek Into Darkness : New ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Photos: To Boldly Go Where Every Man Has A Thousand-Yard Stare ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: Benedict Cumberbatch’s Identity Revealed? WATCH: Spock And Uhura Steal A Kiss In Action-Packed ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Video Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
New details surface about the mysterious villain in the international preview. By Kevin P. Sullivan Benedict Cumberbatch in “Star Trek Into Darkness” Photo: Paramount
Brand-new ‘Into Darkness’ trailer gives Trek fans a menacing look at Benedict Cumberbatch. By Ryan Rigley Chris Pine in “Star Trek Into Darkness” Photo: Paramount
The release of the first issue of a three-part prequel comic to Star Trek Into Darkness has lent some credence to the theory that the true villain of JJ Abram’s upcoming movie is not Khan or Gary Mitchell , but rather Robert April, the very first captain of the Starship Enterprise. HitFix’s Drew McWeeny first raised the idea late last year after Abrams’ Bad Robot held a press day for the feature, which hits theaters in May, and now Brandon Connelly at Bleeding Cool has posted panels from the prequel comic which feature April. Star Trek Into Darkness screenwriter/producer Roberto Orci has said that the film’s will be a canon character, and April is. He was introduced in the animated Star Trek series that ran for 22 episodes in 1973 and ’74. As McWeeny notes below, although Bad Robot has not confirmed that April figures in Star Trek Into Darkness , the plot of the animated episode that featured April appears to dovetail with aspects of the movie that have been revealed so far: He first appeared in the animated series, and in the episode where he appeared, it was established that he was was the first Captain of the Enterprise, even before Pike. He was much older in the episode, “The Counter-Clock Incident,” which you can watch right now if you have NetFlix Instant. In that episode, everyone on the Enterprise starts to age backwards, and by the time they’re all kids, unable to fix the problem, only April and his wife are still old enough to figure out how to reverse the process. April figuring out that mechanism for how to control aging and even reverse it could be an important part of the plot for “Star Trek Into Darkness.” If you saw the first nine minutes of the film in front of ” The Hobbit ,” then you already know that the film opens with a London couple driving to the hospital where their daughter lies immobilized, and from the few shots we see of her, she appears to be aging too rapidly. At the end of that scene, her father (Noel Clarke) steps outside for some air, and that’s when Cumberbatch shows up and tells him, “I can cure her.” As McWeeny points out in his post, Peter Weller , who’s also in STID could very well turn out to be April instead of Cumberbatch, who Abrams has chosen to identify simply as John Harrison . Whoever he turns out to be when the movie finally premieres, one thing is clear: this whole who-is-Benedict-Cumberbatch? mystery is brilliant guerrilla marketing on Bad Robot’s part. Here’s the revealing comic panel that Bleeding Cool posted. It’s the final page of the first issue of Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness. [ HitFix , Bleeding Cool ] More on Star Trek Into Darkness : ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: Cumberbatch’s Identity, Carol Marcus, And A New ‘Trek’ Villain Theory Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
It’s been tough to know what to expect from the forthcoming remake of Sam Raimi’s horror classic Evil Dead , but let the first trailer put your mind to rest — or, really, unrest: This is good, old-fashioned, red-band terror that manages to evoke the spirit of the original film (evil book unleashes spirits in a cabin in the woods; nothing good comes of it) with all new kinds of messed up, squishy images to keep you awake at night. Gone is the safe, comforting distance created by low budget 1980s effects work and Bruce Campbell ‘s cult status-worthy antics; with its new “heroine” (Jane Levy) and gang of fresh meat soon-to-be-victims and some fantastically icky gore shots, this ain’t your grandpa’s Evil Dead . Fede Alvarez is in the director’s chair on the April 12 release, while Raimi and Campbell are onboard as producers. Take a look at the redband trailer below and chime in with your verdict, and good luck keeping your dinner down/fending off visions of creepy tongue-splitting possessed girls in your nightmares tonight. Synopsis: In the much anticipated remake of the 1981 cult-hit horror film, five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival. [ Evil Dead on YouTube ] Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Combine a kind heart and the power of social networking and sometimes, the proverbial mountain will go to Muhammad. That was the case recently when director J.J. Abrams granted a dying cancer patient the chance to see Star Trek Into Darkness months before the feature is set to head into theaters. [ Related: New ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Teaser: The Wrath Of Cumberbatch? ] Abrams learned of the man’s wish last week on link-sharing site Reddit. A user identified as ideeeyut detailed how his 41-year old Trekkie friend, who has leukemia and other health issues, headed out to a screening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hoping to catch a ten-minute preview of the upcoming Star Trek film. The theater, however, did not play the preview, which is showing in most theaters. The disappointment lead Daniel’s friend to give a “passionate plea” via Reddit for help to allow Daniel to see the film, according to CNET via Deadline. After the request hit Reddit, the story found its way onto a number of Trek and geek sites, leading one user to tweet the story to J.J. Abrams and other working on the film, leading to Abrams telephoning Daniel up about setting plans for a personal preview. Ideeyut went back to Reddit a few days later, quoting Daniel’s wife who said, “We saw it and we enjoyed it immensely as a film and as a gesture.” She said further that she hoped the message would spotlight the “heartfelt message of giving.” Star Trek Into Darkness opens May 17th. [Sources: CNET , Deadline ]
Hi impact terror appears to be in store this May with Star Trek Into Darkness and Paramount bowed its teaser trailer with a menacing voice warning of vengeance in these “final moments of peace,” and it will be Captain Kirk to the rescue, of course. The first full trailer will debut next week. ENTV description: The first official teaser trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013). After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Alice Eve, Benedict Cumberbatch, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho and Anton Yelchin. Watch the video on YouTube
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Experts plunge ‘Into Darkness’ to figure out who the ‘Star Trek’ sequel villain really is. By Josh Wigler Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto in “Star Trek” Photo: Industrial Light and Magic/Paramount
What happens in the darkness… Angela Stanton Says Deion Sanders Was Cheating On His Wife With Is Her Daughter Apparently author Angela Stanton is a pro at putting folks on blizzast when they have dirt to hide ( *side-eyes Phaedra Parks* ). Yesterday, Angela hopped on Twitter to expose Deion Sanders as the “womanizing pervert” that his estranged wife, Pilar, has said he is . Stanton claims that the 18-year-old girl that Deion was cheating on Pilar with is her daughter, Aleea. Hit the flipper to see what else Angela had to say on the subject.
