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In an interview with TrekMovie.com<\/a>, Star Trek 2 Co-writer Roberto Orci cleared up some information regarding some characters to appear on Star Trek 2<\/em> – well, perhaps.<\/p>\n Orci again debunked a rumor about the character to be played by Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong>, and explained which characters played by actors new to the franchise would be portraying canon characters and which would not.<\/p>\n There has been plenty of buzz recently about Karl Urban<\/strong>‘s seeming slip of the tongue where he revealed that Cumberbatch would be playing Gary Mitchell (Where No Man Has Gone Before<\/em>). “He’s awesome,” said Urban; “he’s a great addition, and I think his Gary Mitchell is going to be exemplary.”<\/p>\n But Orci, when asked about the discrepancy between Urban’s comments and Orci’s own previous statement regarding Cumberbatch, repeated Urban’s explanation for “misspeaking.” “All I can say is that when I did that radio interview I had just been doing 22 hours of press. I had just got off a flight from New Zealand…,” said Orci.<\/p>\n When asked directly if he was sticking with his original comment (that Cumberbatch would not be Mitchell,) Orci said, “I would say that I never lie. While Karl tests all those hypo spray props on himself.”<\/p>\n In the discussion following his comments on the matter, Orci admitted to readers that “…I lied once.”<\/p>\n So will Cumberbatch be Mitchell, or not? One could argue last week’s disclosure and walk back either way.<\/p>\n In fact, Cumberbatch, according to Orci, will be playing an established character. Orci was given a name of six actors with guest roles in Star Trek 2<\/em> and he revealed that two would be playing canon roles and four would not.<\/p>\n The four playing new characters are: Noel Clarke, Nanzine Contractor, Peter Weller<\/strong> and Joseph Gatt<\/strong>; while Cumberbatch and Alice Eve<\/strong> will be playing canon characters. Speculation on Eve’s character includes: Carol Marcus, Yeoman Rand, and Christine Chapel. Cumberbatch possible roles include Khan, Gary Seven and Gary Mitchell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an interview with TrekMovie.com, Star Trek 2 Co-writer Roberto Orci cleared up some information…<\/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":[3928,3860,2466,2487],"class_list":["post-18752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","tag-cumberbatch","tag-eve","tag-orci","tag-urban"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Into Darkness","comment_count":"25","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752","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=18752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18770,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752\/revisions\/18770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}