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Does New Star Trek Image Reveals Benedict Cumberbatch’s Character?

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There’s been a lot of speculation about who Benedict Cumberbatch would be playing in Star Trek Into Darkness, with many suggesting he’ll be a classic Trek villain. Director JJ Abrams meanwhile seems to have been having a lot of fun not telling us. However now the new image above has arrived, which gives us a name for the character in its caption.

So who is it? Well, the caption simply says, ‘(Left to right) Zachary Quinto is Spock, Benedict Cumberbatch is John Harrison and Chris Pine is Kirk in STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.’

So who is John Harrison? Well, the recently official synopsis describes him as a ‘one man weapon of mass destruction’, but there are still those who believe John Harrison is either a ruse or pseudonym, and that this baddie is actually the legendary Khan. Knowing Abrams, he’s not going to say anything about this until after the film is release, but there is a fair amount of evidence that Khan will be involved, although nothing definitive.

The film hits cinemas May 17th 2013. Here’s the synopsis again in case you missed it, ‘When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.’

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Star Trek Into Darkness Announcement Teaser Trailer – Has the villain been revealed?

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Star Trek fans prepare to get excited, as your first look at the upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness is here, with a brief announcement trailer. You can watch that above, along with a Japanese version below, which slightly different footage.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘In Summer 2013, pioneering director J.J. Abrams will deliver an explosive action thriller that takes Star Trek Into Darkness. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.

‘With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.’

From the trailer we discover that Benedict Cumberbatch is one angry man, wanting plenty of revenge and causing all sorts of trouble. However we still don’t have a name for his character, which has led to plenty of speculation that he’ll be a JJ Abrams version of one of the classic Trek baddies. There are some people already suggesting that the Japanese version, with its 15 seconds of extra footage, gives a major hint as to exactly which villain it will be, [SPOILER ALERT] due to a shot of Kirk and Spock touching through a pane of glass, which is reminiscent of Star Trek II. And that could mean that as long speculated, Cumberbatch is Khan Noonien Singh. That’s still not confirmed but it’s seeming increasingly likely. [SPOILERS END]

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Star Trek Into Darkness Official Synopsis Arrives

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JJ Abrams is a big fan of secrecy, and so it’s often difficult to get any information about projects he’s working on. With some, such as Cloverfield, he’s even tried to maintain secrecy after the film was released. However some info always slips out, and with a franchise as big as Star Trek, it’s little surprise the studio wants to give out at least a little info.

Now the official synopsis has arrived (via The Film Stage), which may not be a point-by-point breakdown, but certainly let’s us now the broad strokes. It says, ‘In Summer 2013, pioneering director J.J. Abrams will deliver an explosive action thriller that takes Star Trek Into Darkness. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.

‘With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.’

It’s slightly awkwardly worded, seemingly because they’re trying to give us info while not revealing anything about the villain themselves. All we know is they’re being played by Benedict Cumberbatch.

The film hits cinemas May 17th, 2013, with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg and Anton Yelchin all returning.

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Has Star Trek 2 Found A Title?

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The main way for fans to find out early what a movie is going to be called is to keep an eye on domain name registrations. A studio has to buy the domains before they announce the title (to stop the inevitable cyber-squatters), but there’s no way to keep those registrations completely secret.

Now fans think they may have found the title of Star Trek 2, as MarkMonitor, a popular domain registry – the same registry in fact that secured the title for Paramount Pictures’ G.I. Joe Retaliation – has confirmed that both www.startrekintodarkness.com and www.startrekintodarknessmovie have been registered as Internet website domains.

This, of course, has led to the speculation that the new title of Star Trek 2 is now Star Trek Into Darkness. While most sites have been reporting it without a colon, there’s no real reason to suppose it won’t be Star Trek: Into Darkness, which would certainly be less clunky.

At this time, the title has been neither confirmed nor denied by the studio, but with the movie out next year, an official announcement and title treatment must be imminent. (Source: ComingSoon)

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First Image Of Chris Pine As Jack Ryan Arrives

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It’s not often the first image for a film arrives before an official title has been announced, but that’s what’s happened with Paramount’s reboot of the Jack Ryan franchise, which has started shooting with Kenneth Branagh directing and Chris Pine playing the lead role.

The image shows Pine zooming along the Mahattan streets on a motorbike, although the main plot sees the young Jack Ryan heading to Moscow, looking at his life before he became a CIA operative. Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner and Branagh also star, with a Christmas 2013 release date set. (Image via Coming Soon)

UPDATE: Over the weekend another image was released, giving us out first look at Kevin Costner in the movie. Costner portrays William Harper, Ryan’s mentor, with the plan being that if this film is a success, Costner will get his own spin-off, Without Remorse.

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Keira Knightley Gets Female Lead in Jack Ryan Reboot

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A few days ago, it was revealed that Keira Knightley was high on the shortlist for the female lead in Paramount’s planned Jack Ryan reboot, which has Chris Pine attached for the lead and Kenneth Branagh directing. Now Keira’s been chosen after Branagh auditioned several actresses and has gone into negotiations for the part.

Pine will play Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, an ex-Marine who now works as a financial analyst in Moscow, in a tale that takes the character back to his early days, before he joined the CIA. When he discovers his employer’s plan to finance a terrorist attack on the American economic system, Jack Ryan races to save the country and his future wife (Keira Knightley). Director Kenneth Branagh is also starring as the villain.

David Koepp wrote the most recent draft of the screenplay, from an original draft by Adam Cozad. Production is slated to begin next month. (Source: THR)

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Knightley, Jones & Lilly Up For Female Lead In Jack Ryan Reboot

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After years of rewriting, jiggling around, scheduling issues and various other problems, it seems Paramount’s planned reboot of the Jack Ryan franchise, starring Chris Pine, is finally moving forward. A shortlist has now been drawn up for the female lead in the movie – Jack’s future wife – so who could be playing it?

Well, while shortlists don’t always lead to the person who’ll finally play the role, at the moment Deadline says that Paramount and director Kenneth Branagh are looking at Keira Knightley, Felicity Jones and Evangeline Lilly for the role. Knightley is considered to be the frontrunner, though the other two are still very much in the mix. Total Recall co-stars Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel were both in the running for the part as well at one point, but that seems to no longer be the case.

Anne Archer played Jack’s wife in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, but the planned film returns Jack to his early day, before he was married, with Ryan as an ex-Marine who takes a job in Moscow and works to take down his boss(probably played by Branagh), who turns out to be a terrorist working to destroy the United States economy. It still isn’t clear when the movie might shoot, although it’s hoped it’ll go into production before the end of the year.

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This Means War (DVD)

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Note: Some of this review was previously published in connection with the cinema release

I know the exact moment when I gave up on the idea that This Means War was going to be a good movie. Fairly early on Lauren (Reese Witherspoon) is shopping with her friend, Trish (Chelsea Handler), a character who only exists to give Lauren an excuse to say exactly what she’s thinking at any point in time.

However it wasn’t the lazy exposition (something the film loves to engage in) that made me realise that behind the fireworks there wasn’t much going on in This Means War, it was because the scene was set up so that the two women were doing their entire supermarket shop based on what was on the end of the aisles. They picked out detergent, looked at special offers and neither of them seemed to need anything that wasn’t right there in front of them. [Read more…]

Rise Of The Guardians Character Posters Debut

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One of the more intriguing CG projects coming up is Dreamworks Animation’s Rise Of The Guardians, which essentially turns the likes of the Tooth Fairy and Jack Forst into superheroes! When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians – Jack Frost (Chris Pine), North (Alec Baldwin), Tooth (Isla Fisher), E. Aster Bunnymund (Hugh Jackman) and The Sandman – must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world. The film certainly gives the classic characters a bit of a makeover, so take a look at the character posters above and below.

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Chris Pine Taking Part In Mantivities (Which He Also Co-Wrote)

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Chris Pine wants to add writer to his resume, as he’s co-written a script called Mantivities as part of a team including his friends Will Greenberg, Drew Howerton, Robert Baker, Ian Gotler and Tony Liebtrau. That’s a hell of a lot of writers for one script, but hopefully they all brought the funnies.

According to Deadline, Pine will also star in the movie, which is about a group of friends in their early 30s, all of whom are in various stages of permanent adolescence. They get together with the aim of helping one of them grow up. That will presumably lead to much hi-jinks and home truth realisations for all involved.

“I couldn’t be happier to begin the adventure of making Mantivities knowing how much fun we all had writing it,” Pine said. “Somehow I get to laugh with my friends and call it work.” Let’s hope it’s as fun to watch as it was for them to write (although going on the history of these sorts of vanity projects, don’t bet on it). There’s no news on when the movie might shoot.

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