As you can see, Benedict Cumberbatch has seemingly joined a great tradition of villains observed from behind glass. More specifically this reads like the villain being captured by his own will so that he may spark off his grand plot for revenge- a device we’ve seen in both Skyfall and The Avengers just this year. That said, something different could be going on here.
The big news is that this photo comes with a listing that has Benedict Cumberbatch playing a character named “John Harrison.” Obviously that is neither “Khan” nor “Gary Mitchell,” but it is most certainly “bullshit.” It also seems to allude to the Japanese teaser’s final shot, which itself alludes to Wrath of Khan. We went a little deeper into all this stuff this morning, as the reactions to the first 9 minutes of the film hit online.
The character may use the name for some amount of time or have some kind of Ras Al Ghul/Silver Surfer thing going on wherein he’s actually playing a harbinger for Khan or Mitchel or whatever, but something’s up. I’m willing to put a few dollars on it. In fact, I’m seeing some tweets suggesting a character named Harris is present in the original series Trek episode that introduces Khan, so chew on that if you’d like. I’m still betting on Mitchell, but I know all of the run-arounds and early-movie teases about the identity of the baddie aren’t for nothing.
Godddamn, JJ is playing the net like a fiddle this time around. He’s got this mystery box thing on lock.
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One of these days, JJ Abrams will market his films like an adult.
Let us not forget Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight being observed from behind the interrogation room glass while plotting a major escape.
On a side note when did the Federation start issuing skinny jeans as part of the uniform?
Whoever Cumberbatch turns out to be, it’s guaranteed to be a heluva lot less interesting than the theories being put forward. That’s par for the course where Abrams is concerned. He knows how to tease a cock like nobody else, but the result is always an anticlimax.
Amen. What’s really frustrating is that all this does is set up a lot of hype for something that will ultimately be mundane, thus seeming like a let down.
Exactly, there’s only so many characters that Cumberbatch could be playing and two of them have already been named and discussed all over the place. Unless he turns out to be fucking Galactus or something, I don’t see how the audience isn’t going to just shrug their shoulders and be all like, “oh, so that’s who it is.”
Anyone who can describe JJ’s first Star Trek as “an anticlimax” is either married to Uma Thurman or has cheese doodles for brains. And judging by the references to cock teasing, I’m guessing Uma doesn’t call him Sweetiepie.
Didn’t Garth of Ivar have the ability to shape-shift? I still can’t get past the official synopsis and it’s “chess game” between Kirk and the villain – I thought it was an obvious reference to the chess-derived code that Garth tried to figure out in his TOS episode. He also was saved from life-threatening injuries in that episode by an alien race that taught him to manipulate his form – which might link with the scene in STID in which he is offering to save the boy’s life. He is also imprisoned in an asylum in that episode. I’m still calling Garth.
There are an infinite number of characters he could be. Why does it have to be a character from TOS or the movies or the books? It could be an entirely new character.
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