Every detail of the follow-up to 2009’s wildly successful Star Trek reboot has been unsurprisingly shrouded in secrecy, but in the past few days, speculation on the movie’s title has solidified into confirmation from Paramount Pictures and the film’s cast.
The new Trek, set for release in May 2013, will be called Star Trek Into Darkness. Rumblings about this title began to leak over the weekend, when fans noticed that the websites www.startrekintodarkness.com and www.startrekintodarknessmovie.com were registered by an anonymous domain service associated with Paramount. The studio later confirmed the title with Deadline. Any doubts about false leaks or mixed information were washed away when Trek star Zachary Quinto linked to the Deadline article from his official Facebook page.
The title release comes to us off the back of much theorizing and speculation, including from the film’s creators themselves. Speaking to MTV this past summer, writer Damon Lindelof humorously discussed the creative team’s troubles coming up with a name:
“There have been more conversations about what we’re going to call it than went into actually shooting it at this point,”…”‘Star Trek 2’ can’t be the title, since there’s already ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.’ That was the genius of Nolan. There was ‘Batman Begins,’ and now they’re just going to be the ‘Dark Knights’ and not going to have 2’s,” he said. “It’s hard to do movies without colons…”
“There’s no word that comes after the colon after ‘Star Trek’ that’s cool,” he said. “Not that ‘Star Trek: Insurrection’ or ‘First Contact’ aren’t good titles, it’s just that everything that people are turned off about when it comes to ‘Trek’ is represented by the colon.”
J.J. Abrams and Lindelof’s co-writers have kept a running email chain of every potential title that’s been tossed around, including many joke titles. Of those, Lindelof likes “Star Trek: Transformers 4” the best “because it’s technically available.”
Filming for Star Trek Into Darkness wrapped in May 2012. Not many specifics have been released, but the 2009 Enterprise crew, headlined by Chris Pine as Captain Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock, will all return to the bridge. Benedict Cumberbatch and Alice Eve have been added to the all-star cast in as-yet-unidentified roles. Eve could fit Rand or Chapel nicely, and rumors persist that Benedict Cumberbatch will be playing classic villain Khan, though Karl Urban, the reboot’s McCoy, seemingly revealed at a press junket that Cumberbatch will play the telekinetic Original Series character, Gary Mitchell. The film’s producers have neither confirmed nor denied this claim, so Urban may have been joking or creating a red herring.
One thing is pretty certain: the title’s release means that the press and promo for the new Star Trek adventure is about to start hitting us hard, and we’re so excited!
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