‘Star Trek 2′ Villain Has Been Selected: ‘To Khan Or Not To Khan’ Is The Question
Posted by Efas 2010 Celebrity News on July 31, 2011Brace yourself for ?Star Trek 2: The Wrath of? Somebody.?
Of course there will be a villain in J.J. Abrams and company’s sequel to 2009?s ?Star Trek,? and producer Damon Lindelof knows who it will be.
?Those decisions have been made and we are not waffling on them,? Lindelof told MTV News at San Diego Comic-Con 2011, though he stayed cryptic on the exact who’s and what’s. But now that Abrams? ?Super 8? duties are done and he can focus on “Trek” — possibly even directing the sequel himself — a script is irrevocably coming collectively, featuring a new Huge Terrible. Or perhaps… not so new.
If you were around in the ’80s or own some sort of show playing device, you force have heard of Khan, Captain Kirk?s antagonist in the second ?Trek? feature film. Played by the exotically accented Ricardo Montalban, Khan is a beloved reputation from that first ?Trek? franchise. And the folks at Terrible Robot certainly considered him when they were searching for a nemesis for Chris Pine?s Kirk.
?I reckon that to Khan or not to Khan was the jumping off question,? Lindelof clarified. What followed was a heated debate and then a resolution. ?Once we came to that choice we stuck to our guns.?
Lindelof is keeping the result of that choice to himself for now, but he did reveal that in the next film we?ll be seeing more of the characters who are not named Kirk and Spock.
?The first show was really kind of designed as a buddy cop show,? said Lindelof, citing the iconic “Lethal Weapon” pair of Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh as examples. ?That?s certainly a huge theme of ‘Trek’ and one that you cannot abandon.”
“But I do reckon that the sequel is also vacant to want to explore other relationships,” he added, “and surely characters who are more in the background get to shine a small bit brighter.?
If that means more Scotty, we?re all for it!
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