New Star Trek Into Darkness Image

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It feels like a full-on Star Trek assault is taking place all of a sudden, with the Star Trek Into Darkness poster and teaser trailer debuts last week, last night's press screening of the first nine-minutes of IMAX footage that hits with The Hobbit on Friday, and now the release of a new (the first official?) still from the sequel. Check it out:

Now here's the thing: The caption on the image, released by Paramount, says Benedict Cumberbatch is playing "John Harrison." Who? With all the speculation as to who the villain of the film is, this is likely a decoy name placed by the studio… but still, let's fan the flames even more Paramount, eh?

A new trailer and the aforementioned nine minutes of IMAX footage will hit this Friday… though don't expect any more info on who Cumberbatch is playing there either.

Via Coming Soon

Update: IGN's own Jim Vejvoda attended a press event today where director J.J. Abrams and other members of the Star Trek team were on hand to discuss the film. During the event, it was revealed that Alice Eve is playing Carol Marcus in the film. You will recall that Marcus was created for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as an old love interest of Captain Kirk's -- and the mother of his son, David! (She was also one of the designers of the Genesis Device, natch.) Whether or not this means Star Trek Into Darkness is going with a Khan story is unclear, since the events in this film of course take place decades before the Khan/Marcus story from Wrath of Khan, so stay tuned...

But in the meantime, check out this pic of Jim hanging with the Cumberbatch himself from today! Jealous?!

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Source : ign[dot]com