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Dec 26, 2012


"You think your world is safe - it is an illusion." There's no question that thanks to the early teaser trailers and hype they have been building, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness is one of our most anticipated movies of 2013.

Some of these quotes come from the The Playlist, where they've teased some of the photos and quotes online (but not everything yet), as well as from TrekMovie where they've been keeping track of everything stated so far. Everything mentioned is fairly vague and won't reveal anything we haven't already surmised or seen in the trailer, but they're interesting quotes to read (and photos) nonetheless. Up first, J.J. talks about how exactly the Into Darkness title connects to the story, and it all sounds damn good:
"I love movies that are big and unabashedly a huge fan of big pop mass appeal movies. I do love that. I love being in a theater packed with people and everyone gasping at the same time and having that communal experience. I don’t like going to the movies to feel bad. I don’t like going to the movies to feel depressed and feel diminished. The reason you go to the movies is to feel bigger and stronger and happier. So this is a movie that they certainly go 'Into Darkness,' but I would be the wrong director if it was about characters staying there. This is very much a movie about hope, about love, about romance, and about facing something that is truly terrifying and finding a way through the connection of your family and surviving and being stronger afterwards."
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"So this movie doesn’t require you have seen the first movie. The characters are a group of people who have recently come together and find themselves up against this incredibly terrifying force. His name is John Harrison and he is sort of an average – that is what makes him so scary – he is just an average guy who works in an organization called Starfleet, and he turns against the group because he has got this back-story and this kind of amazing secret agenda. After two very violent attacks, one in London and one in the US, our characters have to go after this guy and apprehend him. And it is a far more complicated and difficult thing then they ever anticipated. "Into Darkness" is very much about how intense it gets and really what they are up against."
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Which is kind of what Cumberbatch gets at when he responds to a question about his character. Here he drops a great quote:
"When J.J. described the role to me... he described someone who was, in movie terms, a mixture of Hannibal Lecter, Jack in 'The Shining,' and the Joker in 'Batman'... He's someone who has enormous physical strength. He's someone who is incredibly dangerous, both as a physical entity and through the use of various technologies and weapons and who performs acts of what I would describe as terrorism. He's also a psychological master. He manipulates the minds of those around him to do his bidding in a very, very subtle way."
Now that is the kind of villain I'm excited to see fully realized in a big, bold Star Trek "space opera" sci-fi movie. That combination of Hannibal and Joker and Jack sounds deviously delectable and if they can pull off that kind of iconic character, without making it seem like another take on one of those, this may just top J.J.'s first movie and even some of the original Star Trek movies.Stay tuned for more.


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