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[Shadowknight1]

Peter Weller.  Awesome.

Don't forget our new Trek lady, Alice Eve.



Imagine her in a Starfleet issue mini-skirt.

[Darkthunder]

She can "Beam me up" anytime

Also, seeing Peter Weller in Star Trek again is gonna be real cool. Wonder if he'll be playing a good or bad guy thou. In his last appearance (Demons / Terra Prime), he played a very bad guy. And comparing his Robocop look to anything Trek, i'm thinking Talosian?

[Tally]

She can "Beam me up" anytime

 :angel As Scotty would say "I'd like to play with her ample nacelles  :angel

[captain_obvious]

Likely they mean that while it's obviously same characters and all that, you won't necessarily have to have seen the first one to see this one and get it.

I HATE that release date!!!

I hate that it's going to be in 3d.

[Shadowknight1]

Well, apparently Del Toro is out.

[captain_obvious]

But it is khan apparently.
I suspect Fred arminsen will end up doing khan on SNL 
But who would be Kirk I wonder?

[Lionus]

Jim Carrey? 

[Shadowknight1]

If they do bring in Khan, then JJ is going to have to do an AMAZING job...for this movie to be worth seeing.  I didn't want a Space Seed redux.  EVER.  I hope the Khan crap is lies and misdirection on the part of the crew to keep people guessing.

[086gf]

Peter Weller.  Awesome.

Don't forget our new Trek lady, Alice Eve.



Imagine her in a Starfleet issue mini-skirt.

Caroll Marcus? Im calling it now. Perfect time to bring her into the fray.

[Morgan]

If they do bring in Khan, then JJ is going to have to do an AMAZING job...for this movie to be worth seeing.  I didn't want a Space Seed redux.  EVER.  I hope the Khan crap is lies and misdirection on the part of the crew to keep people guessing.

I couldn't agree with you more.  My biggest fear for this movie was some kind of Space Seed/Wrath of Khan rehash, and that's the LAST think I (or probably ANY Trek fan) wants.  I hope Khan is just a rumor and completely false.

To be honest, I was kind of hoping Del Toro would play Kang.  I think he'd make an awesome Kang.  Guess we'll never know...

[086gf]

It will be shot in 2D then converted to 3D. Though JJ says IMAX pwns all. Its good news for me since I can't wear 3d glasses anyways.

We?re shooting on film, 2-D, and then we?ll do a good high-end conversion like the ?Harry Potter? movie and all that. Luckily, with our release date now we have the months needed to do it right because if you rush it, it never looks good?. "We were talking about [shooting in IMAX] and I would love to do it. IMAX is my favorite format; I?m a huge fan," he added.

http://trekmovie.com/2011/12/20/jj-abrams-gives-star-trek-sequel-update-to-be-shot-in-2-d-converted/

No original series actors will be in the movie. Definitly a good move there, its time to move on.

The next ?Star Trek? installment, directed by J.J. Abrams, will have no members of the original cast. No Shatner, no Nimoy. No classic recipe Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Uhura, Chekhov or Sulu. The last ?Star Trek? film featured Leonard Nimoy as Spock. But sources close to the next film, many of whom worked with Abrams on the new ?Mission Impossible,? confirmed for me last night that none of the originals has been invited back this time. ?MI4??s Simon Pegg, who now plays Scotty (original Scotty, James Doohan, is in space heaven now with original Bones, DeForrest Kelly), quipped, ?That would involve time travel. And if the real Scotty showed up, that would be something.?

http://trekmovie.com/2011/12/20/report-no-original-star-trek-actors-in-sequel/

A part for Pike has been written in but Greenwood still needs to say yes. I really hope that his part eventually gets a bit bigger. Something more like Riker's former captain in Pegasus.

http://trekmovie.com/2011/12/20/orci-bruce-greenwood-written-into-star-trek-seqeul-script/

The villian will be "original, unique and different". Though the main villian roll does appearently call for a latin male actor with an older mentor baddie thats not so weak himself and may be more dangerous than the main(like a Vader and Palpatine style relationship).

What is exciting about it is, unlike the last film where we were restarting and resetting up all the characters, we are going to jump right in and we don?t have to set up everyone again and we can go right into it. For those who haven?t seen it, go get it right now. We are kind of in a mad dash at the beginning of the film.  In all of our conversations we reference our favorite films and in Empire Strikes Back it is spectacular how they were able to pick up immediately and carry on from the last one.

There are amazing villains throughout the Star Trek universe, as well as new villains as we did in the last film. There are a lot of directions we can go in the film and in this particular case we chose to do something that would be original and unique and different and again on paper I think we made the right choice.

http://trekmovie.com/2011/12/20/star-trek-sequel-producer-talks-mad-dash-beginning-original-story/

[Shadowknight1]

Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast as the villain for Star Trek 2013.

source: http://trekmovie.com/2012/01/04/exclusive-sherlock-star-benedict-cumberbatch-cast-in-major-star-trek-sequel-role/

Is it just me...or does he look a little like Lazarus?

[sovereign001]

Lol, that guy could play Jeremy Clarkson. He has the same face expression almost.

[Bones]

yeah lol, but then he wuold have to put up about 30 kilos

[Tuskin38]

Thats funny, I just started Watching Sherlock.

[Tuskin38]

Noel Clarke as well?

http://trekmovie.com/2012/01/04/brit-actor-noel-clarke-joins-star-trek-sequel-cast/

Is JJ going to the BBC for his actors?

[086gf]

Interesting to see who these two turn out to be and if they will keep their accent.

[086gf]

So it seems that the Brits will still be Brits afterall since they just keep on comming.

Joseph Gatt will be...someone.

First reported by our friends at ScreenRant, TrekMovie has confirmed that British actor Joseph Gatt has been tapped for an unspecified role in the Star Trek sequel. A spokesperson for the actor tells TrekMovie that Gatt will begin shooting some tests this week.

The 37 year-old actor and former model has a career going back to the late 90s. Most recently he has been seen playing a CIA agent on Chuck and playing Grundroth the frost giant in Marvel?s Thor movie. Gatt also has a lot of experience doing voice and motion capture work for video games, including recent titles "Gods of War 3" and "Star Wars: The Old Republic"

http://trekmovie.com/2012/01/09/thor-actor-joseph-gatt-joins-star-trek-sequel/

Nazneen Contractor(Not British born but shes grown up there) will play the "wife of the family man"(Noel Clark).

EW is reporting that Canadian actress Nazneen Contractor has joined the Star Trek cast. She has been tapped to play the wife to the "family man with wife and daughter" played by British actor Noel Clarke (cast earlier this week).

The 29 year old actress was born in Mumbai, India and raised and educated in Nigeria and London, later immigrating to Canada at the age of ten. Contractor?s acting career dates back a decade and she is known to Canadians for a recurring role as Sgt. Layla Hourani on the CBC drama The Border and will best be known elsewhere for her regular role as Kayla Hassan in the 8th season of 24.

http://trekmovie.com/2012/01/06/24-actress-nanzeen-contractor-joins-star-trek-sequel-cast/

And they've started filming.

Firstly Abrams gave some details on the nuts and bolts of the production:
 ?Shooting starts Thursday (actually 3 days earlier than TrekMovie?s previous reporting), and will last four months
 ?Will shoot on film with anamorphic lenses, with 3D version using a conversion
?Studio pushed for 3D version, 2D version will also be shown

Regarding the recently announced casting of Benedict Cumberbatch, Abrams would not confirm he was playing the villain, but did have this to say about the actor:

He?s a genius. Honestly, he?s just an incredible actor. If you?ve seen his work in Sherlock, he?s just got incredible skills. He?s an amazing stage actor. He did amazing work (on stage) in Frankenstein. He?s brilliant. You try to cast people who are great. We got lucky.

Abrams also appears to confirm previous reports that there will be no returning original series stars for the sequel.

http://trekmovie.com/2012/01/08/jj-abrams-gives-star-trek-sequel-production-update-talks-cumberbatch-casting/

New engineering room!!!

boborci
 
I?ll tell you this. There are some cool improvements to engine room!

http://trekmovie.com/2012/01/12/star-trek-sequel-begins-shooting-exclusive-production-update/

[Shadowknight1]

"Mr. Scott.  The word is given."

Also, Orci said that the new movie will have "the mother of all beauty passes."  I don't know about that.  As much as I love the new Enterprise, I can't picture JJ slowing the pace down for a good beauty shot of the ship.  At least not one that can match the magnificence of the pass of the refit in TMP.  And even so...as good as the CGI was in Star Trek XI, I still think that a good model shot can be done better.  However, considering how far ILM has come since the early days of their CGI work, I may need to eat my words come next year.

[Tuskin38]

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/01/13/star-trek-sequel-a-cosmic-cast-reunion-on-the-sony-lot/

Its great the cast gets along so well