{"id":41801,"date":"2015-09-28T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=41801"},"modified":"2015-09-28T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:21:17","slug":"elbas-star-trek-beyond-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/09\/elbas-star-trek-beyond-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Elba&#8217;s Star Trek Beyond Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Idris Elba<\/strong> spoke briefly about his <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em> villain character.<\/p>\n<p>Elba will not be a Klingon, but an original character.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Simon<\/strong> [<strong>Pegg<\/strong>] and the team have written a very interesting, complex journey for my character,&#8221; said Elba. &#8220;You&#8217;ve never seen me play a character like this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think <em>Star Trek<\/em> has prided themselves as being quite classic when it comes to villains, like &#8216;he&#8217;s a guy who wants to end the world,&#8217; there\u2019s no doubt about that. But in this version of the film, there&#8217;s a slightly different twist to that. It&#8217;s quite an interesting journey, which I think is groundbreaking for the franchise. But, it still keeps with the &#8216;classic bad guy is a classic bad guy&#8217; tone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Working on<em> Star Trek Beyond<\/em> is no easy job. Elba has been putting in long hours on the movie. &#8220;It&#8217;s been hard work,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been doing eighteen-hour days. It&#8217;s tough work, but I&#8217;m looking forward to people seeing this film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em> arrives in theaters July 22, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idris Elba spoke briefly about his Star Trek Beyond villain character. 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