We’ve been promised the first Star Trek Into Darkness trailer will premiere alongside The Hobbit, but before then the teaser poster has arrived (Click on it for a larger version). The synopsis that showed up last week promised the villain would be a ‘one man weapon of mass destruction’, and this poster certainly backs that up, showing Benedict Cumberbatch standing in some fiery wreckage, presumably after causing some sort of massive explosion.
However we don’t know what the explosion might be, as this is JJ Abrams, and so there’s still major secrecy going on. It’s not a particularly Star Trek-y image either, suggesting they may be trying to lure in new fans with this one.
Here’s the synopsis again, in case you missed it last week: ‘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 several months since JJ Abrams signed up to produce God Particle, but now things have moved forward with 
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.
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.
Universal Pictures is teaming up with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company for a new disaster movie, currently called Earthquake. The gay, Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) has been hired to write the screenplay, according to 
Here’s a bit of a dream team – J.J. Abrams producing, Edgar Wright co-writing and directing, and Mark Protosevich (Thor, I Am Legend) writing a new sci-fi project currently called Collider for Paramount Pictures, according to 
Abrams love to keep things secret, including who the villain is in Star Trek 2. When several Hispanic actors were considered, most of the speculation centred around it being Khan. When Benedict Cumberbatch was eventually cast, who the villain would be remained a mystery, with Khan still the favoured option.
Paramount adores being in the JJ Abrams business, because at the moment it seems to guarantee them profits. They’re getting together again for The God Particle, as Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot production company are now putting together the sci-fi thriller God Particle, based on a script by Oren Uziel, and have also picked up an action thriller spec script called Wunderkind from Patrick Aison. At the moment it appears Abrams will produce by not direct both movies.