Well, nerds and geeks, our prayers, it seems, have been answered. Ever since Benedict Cumberbatch, Britain’s Most British Actor and star of the excellent BBC series Sherlock, was cast as a bad guy in the upcoming sequel, there’s been rampant speculation as to who he’d play. Intergalactic lothario Harry Mudd? A Gorn? Even…Khan? Well, if you guessed Khan, pour yourself a glass of Romulan ale. Both Ain’t It Cool News and the usually reliable (so I’ve heard, ahem) TrekMovie.com are reporting that Cumberbatch will be playing Khan.
Ricardo Montalban as "KHAN" in the original Star Trek Episode
Of course, nothing’s confirmed, but this does fits with a couple of things that happened with Abrams’ production. First, on the Star Trek reboot’s DVD commentary, Abrams’ team mentions that they had considered sneaking in a shot of Khan’s original starship after the closing credits. And Benicio Del Toro was being sought to play a villain in the sequel, which was what fueled the Khan rumors in the first place. (In the show, Khan was actually from the Indian subcontinent, so casting Latino actors makes about as much sense as anything else on Star Trek.) There’ve been a couple of leaked photos from the set featuring Cumberbatch fighting Zachary Quinto’s Spock, on what looks like the wreckage of an old and busted spaceship – recall that in the original series, the Enterprise crew finds Khan and his followers adrift in space, exiled from Earth after they tried to take over the planet in the mid-1990s. (The future!)
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