{"id":13490,"date":"2011-12-02T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=13490"},"modified":"2011-12-02T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T06:46:20","slug":"del-toro-rumor-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/12\/del-toro-rumor-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Toro Rumor Mill &#8211; Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Latino Review<\/em> website claims to know which villain role <strong>Benicio Del Toro<\/strong> will play in <em>Star Trek 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Although he hasn&#8217;t been officially announced yet as part of <em>Star Trek 2<\/em>, it is expected that Del Toro will sign up for the Abrams&#8217; sequel soon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DelToro110711.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13491\" title=\"DelToro110711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DelToro110711.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Here is what <em>Latino Review<\/em> had to say: &#8220;So, I&#8217;m tracking a Latin bad guy role in an upcoming studio movie and although there is no progress today on that specific part, instead I got dibs on a big time bad guy role played by a Latin dude.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although heavily debated online as to whom Benicio del Toro might be playing in <em>Star Trek 2<\/em>&#8230;I&#8217;m here to tell you guys that according to my sources&#8230;Benicio Del Toro is playing none other than&#8230;KHAN NOONIEN SINGH, or better known as Khan!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Until anything official is announced, treat this strictly as rumor.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/blogs\/motion-captured\/posts\/is-benecio-del-toro-playing-khan-in-star-trek-2-or-not\">Hitfix<\/a>, J.J. Abrams was asked to comment on the rumor and he said, &#8220;Not true.&#8221; Hitfix also claims that Latino Reviw has a &#8220;very, very high accuracy rate with the scoops [its reporter] breaks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Latino Review website claims to know which villain role Benicio Del Toro will play&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2689],"tags":[3831,2694],"class_list":["post-13490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","tag-del-toro","tag-khan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xii\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Into Darkness","comment_count":"29","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13493,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490\/revisions\/13493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}