With all the Star Wars talk these past few weeks, you’d be forgiven for forgetting there’s a new Star Trek film coming next year. The first poster for Star Trek Into Darkness came online overnight and it looks the business… albeit somewhat familiar.
The as-yet-unknown villain of the peace, played by the brilliant Benedict Cumberbatch (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) appears in the poster, standing among the ruins of a building – Star Fleet HQ perhaps? – with a blast outline in the wall mimicking the Star Fleet insignia – very cool. But if it reminds you of other movie posters you’ve seen recently, you might well be right. Thanks to the good folk at Slash Film you can see the possible influences from other recent blockbuster titles after the jump.
J.J. Abrams, the mastermind behind the successful franchise reboot, returns to take the helm of the sequel which sees Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Bones (Karl Urban) and Co. return to 23rd Century Earth to find Star Fleet decimated by an enemy from within; leading the crew of the Enterprise to undertake a universal manhunt to find the perpetrator… “a one man weapon of mass destruction”.
Star Trek Into Darkness poster:
Influences?:
You like the new poster? Excited for the sequel?
With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
Directed by J.J. Abrams, the film stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Peter Weller, Nolan North, and Bruce Greenwood.
Star Trek Into Darkness warps into New Zealand theatres on 16 May, 2013
