Star Trek Into Darkness
After months of build - up and downright divisive pre - release surmisal , Star Trek Into Darknesshas arrived in US theaters . The film has received an irresistibly golden reply from critic , ( take ourStar Trek Into Darknessreview ) and is poised to make big long horse at the summer box office - in spite of eminent - powered custody - overs likeIron Man 3along with a amazingly strong performance fromThe Great Gatsby .
Last hebdomad , we had a opportunity to shoot the breeze with two of the film ’s stars , Simon Pegg ( Lieutenant Commander Montgomery “ Scotty ” Scott ) and John Cho ( Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu ) to discuss the latestStar Trekfilm , their forthcoming projects and any advice they have for music director J.J. Abrams as he makes the jump fromStar TrektoStar Wars . We ’ve already station ourinterview with Karl Urban , who returns as " Bones " McCoy , and check that to fit back in the coming days as we mail further interviews - including Alice Eve as the much - talked about Dr. Carol Marcus .
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Even thoughStar Trek Into Darknesshas officially hit theaters in both the US and the UK , among other dominion , Pegg and Cho are still loath to go into too much detail about the film ’s various wrench and turns - chess opening up about the battle of preserve the consultation experience in the modern movie scene :
Simon Pegg : JJ ’s always instil in us the grandness of protecting the consultation ’s experience that ’s what ’s important to us . People can fall back sight of that in the marketing . They need to bollocks up every closed book … I savor it because it ’s something that I totally believe in - looking after the interview . I think spoilers are fearful . They ’re just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the creative person have set up . If you go in there acknowledge what ’s going to go on , it ’s like show the last page of the ledger . It ’s just cowardly . Some people ca n’t aid themselves , they need to be protect .
John Cho : I encounter that most people are remarkably cooperative [ … ] I suppose that ’s a sign of a good movie too cause if you have a forged movie I think they ’d be a slight less thrifty with the spoiler . I sense it ’s a will to our motion-picture show that peradventure they like it , they bask the experience of give birth the plot roll out in front of them and they do n’t want to spoil it for other hoi polloi .
WARNING : The following segment of the audience containsMAJOR SPOILERSforStar Trek Into Darkness . If you have n’t seen the movie , take Simon Pegg ’s advice , avoid spoiling yourself , and scroll down past the word of advice for the rest period of the interview which is despoiler detached .
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Fellow - Star Trekstar Karl Urban has been known to batch with reporter and devotee - set down tongue - in - cheek exclusive TV ofStar Trekat Comic - Con ( which turned out to be several minutes of the doer surfboarding followed by 10 moment of characterless behind - the - scene footage ) . In fact , Karl Urban outright liedabout Benedict Cumberbatch ’s mysterious fictitious character - setting off an intact tear of pre - release speculation that he was actually a version of classicStar Trekcharacter , Gary Mitchell . So , did Pegg and Cho ever scatter misinformation about the film ?
Simon Pegg : I lied , I ’ve barefaced lied to mass when they ’ve demand me [ about the film ] because it is n’t a guessing game . It ’s not like if you get it correct I got ta go ' Yes , confirmed . ' No , F * * * you [ … ] So yea perfectly it ’s play play that dancing . It means that no one will ever trust anything you say ever again .
While the role player are careful not to hash out too manyStar Trek Into Darknessspecifics , they did touch on the film ’s most - anticipated moment - the reveal of John Harrison ’s true identity operator as Khan Noonien Singh . After months of meditation and public debate about the character , fans finally have their reply - and get to pick up Cumberbatch say the name that many were anticipating :
John Cho : It land .
Simon Pegg : There was a pant .
John Cho : There was a gasp in the crowd and it was really nerveless [ … ] Even if you suspect it , it ’s like " Ah ! " there ’s that ah moment .
Simon Pegg : That ’s why we ’ve been so careful , even in the face of such huge amount of supposition is to never , ever just never give up protecting the film . Those minute are so precious . When you go into a movie and you ’re surprised by it - these days with brand acknowledgement being such an important thing and basically trailers , the means trailers have germinate encouraging hoi polloi not to see the moving-picture show unless they ’ve already seen the film which is kind of the paradox of merchandising these days anytime that you enjoy actual sense of marvel and surprisal in the pic it ’s invaluable .
Since Sulu and Scotty are left alive at the end ofStar Trek Into Darkness , fans can expect both Pegg and Cho to return for the inevitable sequel . Each of the theatrical role had their own unparalleled story arcs in the current film - as Sulu tests his heart in the Captain ’s chairman and Scotty engages in a solo - infiltration mission . In our interview , the actor open up about what they enjoyed most about returning to their characters - and what they ’d like to do in the next flick :
John Cho : The script is really well written and I get it amazing that they give everyone something in each of the movies and peradventure it ’s the job of a flick to do that versus a television serial where they can go from one character to another but I receive it awing that they can pull it off with such style . The 2nd matter in term of us seeming like an ensemble I retrieve that ’s credit to JJ . He obviously chose each one of us I think we had that in vulgar so perchance that ’s what relate us . We ’re just lucky that he was the one choosing , we all happen to love one another .
Simon Pegg : It ’s a big corps de ballet , it ’s a lot of people . Every one of them is a character that ’s pre - make out . The hearing require to see them .
John Cho : coolheaded phrase , pre - loved .
Simon Pegg : Pre - loved , I come pre - loved .
Simon Pegg : I was very green-eyed in the first celluloid of that amazing fight you guys [ Cho and Chris Pine ] did on the [ boring ] platform so it ’s nice to get in a headbutt and a few punches in this one .
John Cho : I think I ’d like to be beamed [ In Star Trek 3 ] . I realise I have n’t been beamed – oh wait I have been beamed - I need to be in the teleportation elbow room then .
Simon Pegg : You desire to be voluntarily glow !
John Cho : Voluntarily beamed . Pre - loved and voluntarily beamed . start up publish the t - shirts now !
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Despite a vocal group of diehard Trekkies that consider J.J. Abrams’Star Trekreboot problematic , the film have love a largely confirming decisive reception and boxful authority cut-rate sale - reigniting interest group in the classic serial brand . As a resolution , Paramount Pictures has started discussingStar Trek 3and writer Damon Lindelof even hinted at whatdirection the movie maker might take with the subsequence . That said , it ’s unreadable whether Abrams will return as director for the next film - since he ’ll be very busy the next two years solve onStar Wars : Episode 7 . While Pegg and Cho hope that Abrams will repay forStar Trek 3 , they also offered advice to the filmmaker as he steps into that " other " fan - preferred sci - fi universe - stressing the grandness of animalism ( as opposed to portentous CGI ):
Simon Pegg : Just do your thing . That ’s what he ’s last to do . One of the thing he does with us on Star Trek is verify that we are constantly within physical environments that are there , the absolute Brobdingnagian majority of what you see is set . Then that ’s augment beautifully by CG here and there to give it scale leaf sometimes or increase its scale . Some of those sets were just giant , the space hanger was just gargantuan and it was all there . It was like being in a fully earn spaceship .
John Cho : Particularly the Star Wars world that needs it .
Simon Pegg : Cause the last few were sort of airless cause it was all CG .
John Cho : And whatever he ’s done to us , whatever illusion he ’s used to make us palpate prosperous and feel fraternal I would go for that he does with the mould of Star Wars .
Simon Pegg : I have such eternal religion in JJ there is nothing resembling advice that I can give him . I just bang he ’s decease to get it correct .
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Simon Pegg and John Cho
The first query I require to require you about , was something I saw on theGraham Norton show the other day about a clowning that you played on Benedict Cumberbatch on set .
Simon Pegg : Oh we played it on everybody , even on John .
I need to get word your side of it then …
Simon Pegg : John ’s chemical reaction was one of the funniest . Do you remember that ? [ laughs ]
John Cho : What did I do ?
Simon Pegg : fundamentally I put it in a bag … we were working in a nuclear facility – this sportfishing facility – and I put in a purse that everyone had to wear a special kind of pick …
John Cho : Right … [laughs ]
Simon Pegg : in ordination to guard off an ambient irradiation which was similar to ultraviolet illumination . I made it go very convincing . [ I said that ] you would get a rash and also we had to keep physically moving all the clock time because otherwise ions would settle in our blood line stream . So I had Chris [ Pine ] going for a footling bit and then Anton [ Yelchin ] and then Zoe [ Saldana ] and Zack [ Quinto ] and then it became something more of a output job because everybody was in on it even the bunch . The crew was doing the usage and stuff and we were walk around with battery-acid all over our faces with the pick . Benedict we had him [ fool ] for an entire day with this dramatic conclusion . By the time John [ Cho ] and Kyle [ Valle ] fall in us we had them read out PSAs to photographic camera about the myth of visiting the facility and not worry about wearing the neutron cream . At the very end of the matter the dialog that was on the discriminative stimulus poster and the 2d to last one of them said , ' and we realize that we have been … ' and the last one just say , ' had . '
John Cho : God it was terrible !
Simon Pegg : so then half an 60 minutes later [ John ] went , ' so is the neutron emollient not literal either ? '
John Cho : … because they have been setting me up for days prior … so we were spending all this time together and it was all imitation it was all setting me up . It was sick .
Simon Pegg : We would say things like , it ’s fun down here we ’re having a great time but this neutron cream is a pain though – we got ta wear that – any room listen …
John Cho : Yea [ laugh ]
What was it like for you guys this time mistreat back into these iconic roles again after now having had people oppose to them in the previous film ? I make love that was probably one experience and this is a little morsel dissimilar this time .
John Cho : It was like a family reunification I ’d say .
Simon Pegg : It was like putting on a pair of comfortable place . It felt squeamish and very easy , surprisingly easy . But in that sense it kind of pervaded the first cinema , the ease of it the way in which we cooperate and I think that ’s down to JJ [ Abrams ] ’s uncanny ability to tack together group of citizenry that work well together .
That was one matter I had mentioned to Alice , that was something that I think about coming out of the screening , how well the ensemble actually works in this motion picture . You each get your own character arcs and moment to shine .
John Cho : There ’s two different things . The handwriting is really well written and I find out it awful that they give everyone something in each of the movies and maybe it ’s the job of a movie to do that versus a television series where they can go from one case to another but I happen it awing that they can pull it off with such panache . The second thing in terms of us seeming like an tout ensemble I think that ’s credit to JJ . He manifestly take each one of us I think we had that in common so maybe that ’s what connects us . We ’re just lucky that he was the one choosing , we all happen to love one another .
Simon Pegg : pre - loved , I come pre - loved .
Is there any direction that you cat want your graphic symbol to go in Star Trek 3 ? I knowDamon Lindelof has been talking already about a third film , is there something that you personally need to see your character get to do ? Something you as an actor require to do or something you think would be fun for your character ?
Simon Pegg : I was very jealous in the first film of that awesome fight you guys did on the program so it ’s nice to get in a few headbutt and a few lick in this one .
John Cho : I think I ’d care to be beamed . I see I have n’t been beam – oh wait I have been beamed …
You want to be in the teleportation room .
John Cho : I want to be in the teleportation room .
Simon Pegg : You want to be voluntarily beamed .
John Cho : voluntarily beamed . Pre - loved and voluntarily beamed . Start printing the thymine - shirts now !
Voluntarily beamed you should trademark that . I imagine it ’s frustrating dealing with all the prerelease speculation . This time people were dissect Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto ’s hands trying to reckon out who was on which side of the glass . On our internet site we judge to be tender to spoilers and things like that because we need multitude to go out to the movie and get to experience the twists and go . What ’s it like for you guys now having to manage with that when you ’re promoting a film ? You ’re promoting The World ’s End and people are inquire about Kahn or something like that before the pic come out .
Simon Pegg : JJ ’s always instilled in us the grandness of protect the audience ’s experience that ’s what ’s important to us . People can lose sight of that in the merchandising . They need to blow every secret … I savor it because it ’s something that I completely believe in , is looking after the audience . I believe spoiler are cowardly . They ’re just people who require to anesthetise themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the creative person have countersink up . If you go in there knowing what ’s going to happen , it ’s like reading the last Thomas Nelson Page of the record book . It ’s just fearful . Some people ca n’t avail themselves , they need to be protected .
John Cho : I found that most mass are outstandingly conjunctive .
Simon Pegg : Yea , mostly the press have been smashing . The prescribed press , the bloggers less so but they are kind of people who enjoy getting in and prove to reveal everything .
John Cho : I think that ’s a sign of the zodiac of a good movie too cause if you have a bad movie I think they ’d be a trivial less heedful with the spoilers . I feel it ’s a will to our picture that maybe they care it , they relish the experience of having the patch roll up out in front of them and they do n’t need to ball up it for other hoi polloi .
Simon Pegg : But the people who have understand it and have exit online to places where other citizenry might see thing and just talked about it , they ’re the enemy . They ’re the masses to which whom we owe absolutely nothing , not the truth , nothing . They ’re just there and they call for to be squashed .
Do you ever get tempted to mess with the mechanical press and other people that you ’re talking to ? I bang that Karl Urban for instance at Comic Con did the thing where he promise ' exclusive footage of Star Trek ' and then it was 20 moment of him surfing . But then he also was name dropping Gary Mitchell kind of in connection toCumberbatch ’s quality to spread misinformation .
John Cho : I just require to confirm , this was the surfing telecasting of the television camera pointing towards Karl , not the weewee right ?
Simon Pegg : right !
Is there anything that you guys could n’t verbalize about that now you may ? Now that we have a go at it that Khan is the person , is there anything that you are excited to mouth about now ?
Simon Pegg : The fact is that a lot of people do n’t know that . We had a bit of radio interviews this morning and the DJ allege the K word out loud and we just live , ' aw human ! ' The same thing with this , for anyone that ’s record this that has n’t seen the movie , maybe they have n’t go through it on DVD yet . We still owe every single somebody who has not examine the film the privilege of not knowing what ’s going to happen . So we will never talk about that aspect in the public press . We will never spill about anything which might spoil the film for other people because most people need to have a good time .
That ’s fair . I can understand that I mean I think this moving-picture show more than probably any other this summer , that moment , the moment where he say " I ’m Khan , " that import everyone has been waiting for and stress to figure out forward of time .
John Cho : And it lands
John Cho : There was a gasp in the crowd and it was really cool .
I consider it ’s handled really well in the film because we ’ve had some idea that might be who he was but we did n’t know for certain - and when you take heed it , it did n’t come off as gratify .
John Cho : But even if you distrust it , it ’s like " Ah ! " there ’s that ah moment .
Did you guys have any advice for the entrant this time in terms of dealing with the pressure level of these iconic roles ?
Simon Pegg : Do n’t fuck with John Cho
John Cho : [ laughs ] They do n’t need advice . Benedict Cumberbatch needs no advice .
Simon Pegg : The self-assurance and professionalism of all of our new [ cast Paraguay tea ] I screw Peter Weller in this motion picture .
Simon Pegg : Some of his livery are so coolheaded , he ’s so casual . His potency is just brilliant .
It was cool to see him , did you bozo ever see the episode of Fringe he was in ?
Simon Pegg : Yea .
John Cho : No .
It was a big installment , it was really nerveless . It works as a point of view alone thing too if you have n’t seen it John .
Simon Pegg : Yea , he ’s bright .
I know you cat also voiced characters in the video recording game tie - in , what was it like taking a live - action character that you run around with on stage set - and then proceed into a booth and endeavor to communicate that same energy ?
John Cho : It ’s kinda like ADR really . For me my principal affair was , ' this is what video games are like these days ? ' because I ’m more of a Tetris guy than anything else . To see that , that was happening with video games was disgraceful .
Simon Pegg : It was gracious to just do the vox again and be capable to be Scotty again . I love playing the character . It ’s a different vibration but it ’s still kind of fun .
Did you guys encounter it ?
Simon Pegg : I have n’t played it yet .
John Cho : What system is it on ?
Simon Pegg : I think it ’s on multi weapons platform .
Simon Pegg : I roll in the hay that it ’s the Gorn for our universe which is far more bouncy than the terrific prospect to the one of the original serial but no less I hump the fact that it ’s such a beloved character . Everyone enjoy that episode , " Arena " that noted sequence . The Gorn is such a known quantity in the Star Trek cosmos , it was the perfect choice .
I ’m certain hoi polloi have been asking you a mickle of Star Wars interrogative but I ’m curious what advice do you have for JJ go into the Star Wars property now ? What do you love about what he did with Star Trek that you want to see him be able to harness with Star Wars . Obviously , they are dissimilar franchise .
Simon Pegg : Just do your thing . That ’s what he ’s going to do . One of the things he does with us on Star Trek is ensure that we are constantly within strong-arm surroundings that are there , the absolute immense legal age of what you see is lay out . Then that ’s augmented beautifully by CG here and there to give it weighing machine sometimes or increase its graduated table . Some of those sets were just [ elephantine ] the blank space hanger was just giant and it was all there . It was like being in a fully realized [ space ship ] .
I cerebrate most mass were happy with the news , there was obviously multitude in the blogosphere that were depreciator but most people were genuinely well-chosen with him being selected as director . Alice said she does n’t even take care at the internet she tries to not pay up aid at all .
Simon Pegg : The bad and the in effect that the internet ever did was give everybody a articulation .
Is there anything that you want to say about The World ’s End ? Or that you want to say about Sleepy Hollow ?
John Cho : I probably should n’t [ say anything about Sleepy Hollow ] but it ’s been picked up . Alex and Bob , thumbs up . I ’m unrestrained .
The first trailer for your celluloid [ Simon ] just dropped .
Simon Pegg : And it was massive I call back it had a 1.5 million hits in 24 hours which is over-the-top . We ’re so excited . It ’s out on August 23rd here in the US . I just ca n’t hold off for it [ to come out ] I ca n’t look to show it to everybody because it correspond the culmination of 10 years of work really . Edgar and me set out to make 3 film . After we made the first one we say lease ’s make this a kind of a series of films and this is the last chapter of that series . We ’ll do more but this is the last chapter of that parable on the blind deal .
One last query for you [ Simon ] before I go we have a lot of Doctor Who fan on our site , is there any chance that you would ever return ? I know your character is survive but it ’s timey - wimey Doctor Who .
Simon Pegg : It ’s funny you should say that because … no . I was so felicitous to be in Doctor Who because it was a show I ’ve observe all my lifetime . I played my part and that ’s that , I wo n’t be back but it ’s forever in my curriculum vita .
