'Star Trek 2' Casting Update
http://bit.ly/clevvermovies - Click to Subscribe! http://Facebook.com/ClevverMovies - Become a Fan! http://Twitter.com/ClevverMovies - Follow Us! Casting update from the trek! Hey guys thanks for tuning back into clevver movies, Im your host Tatiana carrier and ive got a casting update from JJ Abrams star trek sequel! . According to Deadline, British film actor Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast in a lead role in the film. No word yet on whether he'll be a hero or villain, but many in the industry are speculating that he will play the lead villain in the film. If this is true, rumors that the villain for the second installment of the reboot would be the infamous "Khan", originally played by Ricardo Montalban in the original series and 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, are most likely false, unless Abrams decides to take Khan in a much different direction this go round. Cumberbatch has gained recent attention playing the title role in the hit BBC series Sherlock and landed high-profile roles in Oscar potential films War Horse and Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy. He will next be seen, or at least heard, voicing the roles of Smaug the Dragon and The Necromancer in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit films. . Another actor to join the cast is Cumberbatch's fellow Brit, Noel Clarke, who you may know best from his role as "Mickey Smith" in that other popular BBC series, Doctor Who. Clarke will reportedly play a family man, with a wife and daughter. Not much to go on from that description, but let's hope he doesn't end up being a crewmember with a red shirt. We all know what happens to those guys. . Clarke and cumberbatch joins fellow Brit Alice Eve and Peter Weller in the film's cast, while Edgar Ramirez and Jordi Molla were, last we heard, fighting it out to replace Benicio Del Toro as the film's villain, who may or may not be Khan. With the addition of Cumberbatch to the cast, we'll have to wait and see if there's still a role to be had. . Either way we will find out soon enough as shooting is set to begin later this month! Star Trek 2 will release may 17 2013. . So what do you trekkies think of the latest additions? Let us know by commenting below and be sure to stay right here on clevver movies, Your number one source for movie news