Dear J.J. Abrams : I ’m a fan of your piece of work . I savour your movies . Unlike many dweeb , I have no veridical job with your Star Trek reboot . I ’ve also enjoyed most , if not all of your television set shows . So it is with all due regard that I humbly request you to discontinue jerking us around and just tell us who the Star Trek 2 villain is .
I do n’t know what you recollect you ’re doing by only refusing to tell people , but it ’s work from fun and mystical to kind of annoying to unnecessarily , distractingly infuriating . No matter who Benedict Cumberbatch is playing in this movie , there ’s no way the character ’s individuality is important enough to justify all this maddening , insane secrecy .
Seriously . Is he Gary Mitchell , Harry Mudd , or one of a hundred other small-scale original Star Trek character ? No one gives a squat but Trekkers , and they ’re not go to care any more or less now than they would have six months ago ( or six months from now , for that topic ) . Is he act Khan ? Well , then I could kind of see why you need to keep that a mystery , because that ’s fabulously terrible , but even then it ’s not going to piddle masses off any less later . Go forward and tell us and let us get over it . Is he play John Harrison , as an official caption indicate sooner this week ? Then you ’re a swashbuckler for shroud a name that ’s all meaningless – but if the name John Harrison is a lie , because you ’re still hiding the name , then you ’ve run crazy . rest in prescribed packaging stills to keep Cumberbatch ’s name privy ? What use could that mayhap serve ? !
As you ’ve said many times , your Trek movies are not for hardcore Trek lover . But what welfare does not bring out the identity of the film ’s antagonist give ? You ’re are n’t hiding an crucial shot , or even a eccentric ’s unique design ( as you did when you refused to to show the Cloverfield monster and the Super 8 alien ) . We all know it ’s Benedict Cumberbatch , and we all know he ’s the sorry guy wire .
This adversary is one of a story ’s most basic , fundamental characteristics . Since we already lie with who the heroes are at this detail — it is a subsequence , after all — really , about the only matter you’re able to tell apart us about the movie is who the hoagy are fighting . It ’s the bad cat we ’re interested in now , and all you ’re doing by refuse to tell us who Cumberbatch is playing is keeping us from knowing what the patch of the damn picture show .
intend of it this way . These non - fans , the ones who have n’t decide whether they ’re break to see your sequel . What if veritable Joe Non - nerd come up to me and articulate , “ I wish the first Trek movie all right . What ’s this novel one about ? ” I DON’T KNOW , REGULAR JOE NON - NERD , BECAUSE J.J. ABRAMS WON’T FUCKING TELL US . This is not something that will tantalize Joe into pre - ordering slate . He ’s just go to wait until someone can tell him what the premiss is .
We ca n’t do that without a name , and here ’s the crazy part — the name scantily matter ! If I could tell apart Joe “ The Enterprise crew fights Gary Mitchell / Harry Mudd / The Mugatu / Whoever ” — the real name hardly matters . The names wo n’t have in mind anything to veritable people anyway . But it ’ll still be a infernal region of a pile more interesting than “ The Enterprise gang fights … somebody . ”
In fact , this whole “ fan tease ” phenomen has gotten solely out of hand , and J.J. , you ’re the worst offender . appear , I realise the desire to keep your audience surprised , and the grandness of not revealing everything before citizenry even get to the theater . We ’ve all seen enough dawdler that give away the full movie to know there ’s a job with knowing too much in rise .
But this — this is too far in the opposite direction . This is purely about making the fans obsess over which classic role Cumberbatch is reinvent , and not about exciting other random motion-picture fan who probably do n’t be intimate Harry Mudd from Gary Mitchell anyway .
Remember how the Avengers moving picture refused to tell us who the extraterrestrial were ? As prison term proceed on and Marvel refuse to tell , we did n’t get more frantic to see Avengers , we just got annoyed . The obsessional speculation became distracting , which as a film producer should be the last thing you desire .
aboveboard , all you directors and producers , if you ’re thinking about refusing to tell masses about a canonical element of your picture show , please ask yourself : Does not knowing in reality make viewing the film a better experience ? Does it actually matter at all ? Will not telling mass actually give them no bloody clue what the moving-picture show is actually about ? suppose long and hard about these interrogation .
J.J. , we need to see Star Trek Into Darkness . We do n’t want to know everything that happens in it beforehand , and we sure want to be surprised to some extent once we park our butts in the theatre of operations . But refusing to tell us the moving-picture show ’s villain is n’t going to make a undivided extra soul buy tickets , and it could actually drive some non - nerds away . More significantly , because there is no possible benefit to not unveil his character , you are seemingly doing it for one reason and one reason alone : To tease the fans . So stop it .
J.J. AbramsStar Trek
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