{"id":16714,"date":"2012-04-25T12:31:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T19:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=16714"},"modified":"2012-04-25T12:31:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T19:31:54","slug":"trek-2-actors-update-movie-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/04\/trek-2-actors-update-movie-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek 2 Actors Update Movie Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16717\" title=\"PineBatchHat042512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PineBatchHat042512.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Pine and Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong> spoke about their recent work on<em> Star Trek 2<\/em>, including progress on the film and preparations for playing one of the characters.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to <em>Star Trek 2<\/em>, fans can expect plenty of action and an exciting film according to the actor playing Captain Kirk. &#8220;It&#8217;s just as action-packed at the first one,&#8221; Pine said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;Of course I&#8217;m gonna tell you I think it\u2019s gonna be better,&#8221; Pine said. &#8220;You pick up the characters from where they left off, and the development of the characters \u2014 I think \u2014 is just as exciting as the first one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it&#8217;s relentless. I think that\u2019s the best adjective I can use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shooting on<em> Star Trek 2<\/em> is coming to an end. &#8220;We&#8217;re almost done,&#8221; said Pine, echoing what an unnamed crewmember said recently. &#8220;It&#8217;s wrapping up very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Newcomer Cumberbatch spoke about preparing for his work on Star Trek 2, which included a hair color change. &#8220;I&#8217;m getting my hair dyed at the moment, at work,&#8221; he revealed in a phone interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zap2it.com\/pop2it\/2012\/04\/star-trek-2-sherlock-star-benedict-cumberbatch-dyes-hair-loves-jj-abrams.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Zap2it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The movie goes very well,&#8221; said Cumberbatch. &#8220;It&#8217;s very, very long hours, but it&#8217;s an incredible job. It&#8217;s phenomenal. J.J. brings it. It&#8217;s a very exciting set to be on. He&#8217;s very imaginative. He&#8217;s involved in the details, the acting and all the wonderful ideas he has for capturing stories in a fresh and imaginative way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just the range of stuff I get to do in one day, it&#8217;s great. Also, what he&#8217;s asking me, it&#8217;s just wonderful. I can&#8217;t say much nicer than that. I&#8217;m basically raving about it, and I don&#8217;t have a gun pointed to my head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cumberbatch also spoke briefly about his character, saying that &#8220;he&#8217;s strong; I can say that much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other <em>Star Trek 2<\/em> news, the name of the movie may change in the months to come, but for now, it&#8217;s still <em>Star Trek 2<\/em>. A production hat, which can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/collider.com\/star-trek-2-sequel-hat\/161656\/\">Collider,<\/a> shows a number two and an Enterprise on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Pine and Benedict Cumberbatch spoke about their recent work on Star Trek 2, including&#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":[3928,4300,2419],"class_list":["post-16714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","tag-cumberbatch","tag-hat","tag-pine"],"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":"16","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714","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=16714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16723,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions\/16723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}