J.J. Abrams regrets Star Trek Into Darkness reveal

[that_therapist]

Would rather have been up front about the villain
Dec 3rd 2013 By George Wales

Comments

[wunnerwmn]

Oh, hello thar, ontd_startrek ! You still here? :)

I wish first of all they'd used another villain from canon or, I don't know, here's a crazy thought - made up a new and interesting one. There, that's out of the way.

But otherwise, yeah, since they insisted on a very pale Khan with an English accent (though I love Benny Cumberbunny and think he did about as well with it as he could) I wish they'd said who it was too, as all the supposed secrecy squelched conversation and fandom squee-ing - or grumbling as the case may be. It really bothered me that we couldn't even discuss the film until everybody in the world had seen it, to avoid spoilers. By that time I think a lot of people had moved on.

My question is, where have people moved on to? For me I've gotten into The Hobbit due to the excitement of my niece over it. Gives us something to bond over. And Cumbersmaug is there, too. Also Doctor Who like whoa. What goes around comes around.

Hope the third and final movie is original and much better.

[nesmith]

I've been going around joking that the new Hobbit movie is Smauglock Holmes and Bilbo Watson.

[serai1]

Whoever they get to direct, they need to get rid of Orci and Kurtzman. Those fucking idiots are RUINING Star Trek.

[bdbdb]

I just don't understand how they can claim to love ST so much, then treat it (and the fans) they way they do. I'd rather not have any new movies than a string of things the quality of Into Darkness. I know I'm preaching to the choir here.... ::sigh::

[serai1]

I couldn't even get through a half hour of that travesty, and had to turn it off in disgust. I liked the first one because the cast was so wonderful, and seeing the Enterprise again was awesome. But these numbnuts haven't a clue what ST is about, let alone how to write a decent episode. I keep hoping CBS will revive the series. It needs to get back on TV, and enough with the stupid shoot-em-up yaya fests in the theaters, already.

[bdbdb]

I pretty much agree with you on all counts, although I did sit through the entire movie. (Sat through it gaping in horror, but sat through it nonetheless.) I can enjoy an actiony, stupid, shoot 'em up on occasion, but that is never what Star Trek was. Ever. It makes me wonder just how some people can claim to be fans, and yet miss the point so completely... Argh!

I'm not sure if I love your icon or am scared of it. ;)

[lantean_breeze]

"It was so important to the studio that we not angle this thing for existing fans."

But that's exactly what they did. It felt like this film was for fans of the original stuff from jump. Then the actual film really pushed that home. Honestly, if they didn't want to angle it for original series fans, then they should have just let him only be John Harrison. That was more interesting anyway...

I highly doubt I'll be watching their next film, and I certainly won't follow its production like I did this one.

[bdbdb]

I read the headline really quickly and missed the last word at first. Then I realized what he was actually saying and was really disappointed.

[mistaria]

Yeah I regret the fact that we couldn't have an official boycott of the film like there would have been had we known up front BC was playing Khan.