{"id":16243,"date":"2012-04-04T13:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T20:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=16243"},"modified":"2012-04-04T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T20:30:58","slug":"kurtzman-magnetic-cumberbatch-crushing-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/04\/kurtzman-magnetic-cumberbatch-crushing-star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurtzman: Magnetic Cumberbatch &#038; Crushing Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16246\" title=\"KurtzmanCumberbatchAbrams040412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KurtzmanCumberbatchAbrams040412.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek 2<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Alex Kurtzman<\/strong> is full of praise for <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong>, <em>Star Trek 2<\/em> and newcomer <strong>Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Set to play a &#8220;mysterious villain,&#8221; Cumberbatch is receiving high marks for his work thus far in <em>Star Trek 2<\/em>. &#8220;He&#8217;s incredible,&#8221; said Kurtzman. &#8220;What he does with language is incredible. His training is amazing and he&#8217;s so magnetic. He holds the screen in any size frame. He really is a joy to watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Praise also went to <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong>. &#8220;The movie is going unbelievably well,&#8221; said Kurtzman. &#8220;J.J. as usual is crushing it; he&#8217;s doing an amazing, amazing job. I think as much as we put all of our love and effort into the first one, there&#8217;s even more in this one and he is really, he&#8217;s such an exacting and beautiful director. What I watch him do, it&#8217;s so amazing, he inspires everybody around him and he&#8217;s been so utterly true to everything that we all have honored and loved about Trek so that&#8217;s kind of where we&#8217;re at right now. The finish line is in sight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kurtzman spoke about <em>Star Trek 2<\/em> in general, hinting that one should not assume that the Enterprise crew are all best buddies after the events of <em>Star Trek XI<\/em>. &#8220;Without spoiling anything, the challenge is that you don&#8217;t want to jump too far ahead and assume that just because they got together they&#8217;re all comfortable with each other,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;re still all working out their kinks and still becoming the bridge crew that we remember from the series. That&#8217;s still very much alive, and look, any good sequel is about the challenge that the group faces in order to become the unified team and I think that that challenge in this movie is going to be hopefully amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek 2<\/em> opens May 17, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek 2&#8216;s Alex Kurtzman is full of praise for J.J. 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