STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS - New TV Spot and Writers Discuss Themes
Here's a new 60-second, UK TV spot for Star Trek Into Darkness that was released over the weekend. I've also included some quotes from writers and producers of the film, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, from a recent interview with Star Trek Magazine in which they discuss Benedict Cumberbatch's role, the title of the film, and the themes of the story.
Orci on Cumberbatch and how his character relates to the title of the movie:
Well he understands Starfleet because he was enlisted in a similar way. Some might see part of the title coming from the fact that he’s kind of a dark shadow of members of our crew. He too has gone through the process to some degree, that some of our crew have gone though, and clearly for some reason it’s failed to bring him over, so I think he represents that part of our heroes.
On the relationship of the crew:
The relationship [between Kirk and Spock] is still forming itself, and in many ways forms itself over the course of this movie. It also gives us a great opportunity, because of the logic versus emotion conflict is such a brilliant and wonderful backdrop against which to pit a huge problem like Benedict Cumberbatch walking into their life. It isn’t just Kirk and Spock, it’s all of them, and how they’re all functioning together now. They are not the well oiled machine that they were in the original series, because they had gone through many, many more missions in the original series.
Kurtzman on the themes of the film:
The thing that’s been interesting to us is that, despite the fact that we are literally going Into Darkness, I think we all worked very hard to make sure the theme of hope, what hope costs, and what it’s really about, was always alive in how we were designing our story. So we’re pretty consistent with the last movie in terms of dark things happening, but holding on to the light that Roddenberry set up as a basic tenet of the Star Trek universe.
The J.J. Abrams directed film stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Peter Weller. It will be released on May 17th, 2013. Enjoy the new TV Spot!