On December 6, 2012, Paramount Pictures released the new poster and trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness. For this much anticipated follow up to the 2009 film Star Trek, J.J Abrams is back in the director's chair, along with returning stars Chris Pine (Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Zoe Saldana (Uhura) and John Cho (Sulu).
Briefly shown in the teaser is Benedict Cumberbatch, the star of BBC's Sherlock, who has apparently been cast in the role as Khan Noonien Singh, a character notoriously portrayed by Ricardo Montalban in the original Star Trek series' 1967 episode "Space Seed", as well as in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Star Trek Into Darkness is set for release on May 16, 2013.
With the release of this latest trailer, I am reminded of the time when I first saw a teaser for the 2009 Star Trek film based on the scene in the movie featuring a young James Kirk (played by Jimmy Bennett) in car chase, scored by the Beastie Boys tune "Sabotage". It was quite momentous for me. I had no idea which film the trailer was teasing - in fact I remember saying to Dwayne Slack, my roommate at the time, that I thought it might have been a Nokia commercial based on the ringtone - so when it is revealed at the end of the scene that the boy is "James Tiberius Kirk" and it is apparent that it is a spot for the new Star Trek film, I can honestly say it was the first (and probably the last) time a film trailer left me totally in awe, and had Dwayne and me jumping up and down and swearing like truck drivers for hours.
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