It’s official. “Star Trek Into Darkness” (or “Star Trek: Into Darkness”) will be the name of the new Star Trek movie to be released May 17, 2013. The domains startrekintodarkness.com and startrekintodarknessmovie.com were registered on September 7, 2012 by Markmonitor, an anonymous registry service that many corporations use to protect their online branding (official website is http://www.StarTrekMovie.com). The upcoming science fiction movie, the twelfth in the series, is the sequel to 2009’s Star Trek. The film will be directed by J. J. Abrams and will star Chris Pine as Captain James T. Trek who also starred in the 2009 Star Trek movie. Filming was shot on location in Los Angeles and began on January 12, 2012. Filming completed in May 2012 and is scheduled to be released May 17, 2013.
“When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.”
Other starring characters include:
Zachary Quinto as Spock
Benedict Cumberbatch as the villain
Karl Urban as Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy
Zoe Saldana as Nyota Uhura
Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov
John Cho as Hikaru Sulu
Simon Pegg as Montgomery “Scotty” Scott
Bruce Greenwood as Admiral Christopher Pike
