JJ talks to MTV about the Klingons and Doctor Marcus:

A few new additions from the Star Trek mythos will be appearing in the this summer's Star Trek Into Darkness. Both the Klingons and Doctor Carol Marcus will debut in the film and director J.J. Abrams spoke with MTV about their roles.

Though a scene was shot for 2009's Star Trek featuring the Klingons that didn't make the final cut, they're making a comeback in a big way in this film.

"Their role in this is definitely that of adversary," Abrams teased, "and you'll see how that plays out."

It's been expected by many that Alice Eve's character Carol Marcus will play a love interest to Chris Pine's Captain Kirk, but (while it may happen) Abrams confirms that the film won't slow down to squeeze in a love story.

"(Kirk) meets her fairly early on and again she plays a science officer, she's someone who is a part of the adventure. I think Chris is right, because it's very much an action adventure movie and once that gets going it's a very difficult thing to park the story. So it's very difficult to do a romantic interlude. Her role is important, she wouldn't be in the movie otherwise."

Full interview:

From Trekweb:

FirstShowing.net posted a new interview with composer Michael Giacchino, in which he talks about his work on "Star Trek Into Darkness." He was candid about many of the challenges to writing a film score:

"You've all seen movies where the music isn't working with the story. And it's either because... the story isn't working itself. Or the composer kinda just wants to write whatever they want to write, not paying attention to the thing. And you leave feeling unsatisfied, and you may not notice it, but it's part of the bigger puzzle. So it's always important, I think, to keep track of what's going on in that story. So when I'm working, I'll get all my beats down that I want to hit, and I'll start writing, but I'll always double check it against/play it back with dialogue and effects, just so I have an idea of what the finished picture will be."

Giacchino explained his collaborative relationship with "into Darkness" director J.J. Abrams as a team effort to bend the imaginations of movie-watchers:

"Everything that J.J. wants you to feel and follow, I'm there to help kinda yank you through. And yes, you can call that manipulation, it is! All of it... Any film is manipulation, really. None of this is real. So anyone who says, 'you were manipulating me!' Well, no ****, of course we were manipulating you, that's why you go to the movies - to be manipulated."

During the FirstShowing.net interview, Giacchino offered some of his personal insight into the film's unconventional opening and how his music fit in with it:
"The opening of the film is quite different from what you would expect from the opening, I think, of a Star Trek film. It starts off in the hospital and you're kind of like-wait, am I in the right theater? What is this? Where the heck am I? And that's intentional. We really wanted to give the audience a distance from the characters. Not speak too plainly about what it is that they're doing, what's going on, the music isn't commenting too much about what's happening. But the idea was to get across that - what you see in front of you, is what you see in front of you, but there's something much bigger going on behind the scenes. And what is that? I don't know yet. We don't know. But it's growing, and it's evolving, in a way in which Star Trek music really traditionally doesn't really do."

From TrekWeb:

The UK release of J.J. Abrams‘ Star Trek Into Darkness has officially been moved up by a week to May 9 when it will go out in IMAX 3D, 3D and 2D cinemas. Paramount currently has the film set for a May 17 release in the States with IMAX 3D screenings on May 15. The shift has led some to wonder if the U.S. date may move to May 9 as well.

From Trekmovie.com:

The film will now open the week before the North American premiere on May 17th in a few markets. Here is the list of new early dates:

Australia – May 9th
New Zealand – May 9th
Austria – May 9th
Germany – May 9th
Switzerland (German speaking areas) – May 9th
Mexico – May 10th
United Kingdom – May 10th (Note Ireland is May 17)

I just checked the official release and it mentions that the film will debut both in Greece and in Spain on July!!!

Dubbing is not an issue in Greece (films are shown with subs) and it's not an issue in Spain (films are usually dubbed, but there are some cinemas that show them in English) as the film will be released in Mexico (!) on May. This doesn't make any sense whatsoever

A new trailer is out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZcxkFZZP0

It's really action packed

Analysis of trailer here:

Stills out of the trailer here:

These scene by scene analyses are quite useful, as I had missed several details

So how do they get the third JJ Star Trek film out along with a Star Wars film?
Here is some talk about that at Trekmovie.com:

I had completely forgotten that Trek's Golden Jubilee is coming up! A thing not mentioned at all is what will happen if Star Wars is delayed? Then I guess Trek will be delayed as well in order to avoid having both films at the same time, even if JJ is only producing it?

Bryan Singer: Directing Star Trek Could Be ‘Great Experience’
TrekMovie.com:

A new Trek trailer is out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... hz4A5BCMAA

The amount of new details is just staggering

shot by shot at Trekmovie:

So it seems that I think it's likely given what we learned from the trailer.

Also,

A little more in a new version of the trailer from Bad Robot

A few new photos form the movie:

One more new photos and some kissass to JJ.

Zoe on trouble with her lines in JJ film and some new photos:

new images and analysis:

Trekmovie potential spoiler


New photo, notice the lens flair:

Hear some music from the new film

About the spoiler, well

Hi guys:

Abrams Interview Star Trek


"Part of [the challenge] was making sure all the characters get introduced brand new." "You can’t assume people know or like or relate to the character. A lot of sequels begin assuming you already love the people and to me it is really important that this is a brand new movie. If you saw the first movie – great! fantastic!..but you don’t have to. So the challenge was reintroducing everyone and establishing that everyone had a critical role in the movie. If every one of the characters wasn’t required the movie doesn’t work. So it was really a lot of different characters – and the writers and I worked together for a year to make sure it was something we all loved."

Likely a good idea JJ. Now please redesign the Enterprise.

OK, this is only for the brave among us.

Major spoiler alert!

Rush to get tickets crashes server in UK.

"To book @bfi @imax tickets for #StarTrek #IntoDarkness call 0330 333 7878, while their online booking is down due to overwhelming demand."
— Paramount PicturesUK (@ParamountUK) April 9, 2013

The ticket server crashed??? Beware the wrath of the Trekkies

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