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Damon Lindelof on Star Trek Into Darkness and Honoring the 40-Plus Years of Canon of the Star Trek Franchise

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By GustavoLeao / 00:21, 13 March 2013 / Star Trek: Nemesis

LA Times posted a new interview with Star Trek Into Darkness co-writer Damon Lindelof and here are excerpts.

“If anything, we’ve become more terrified,” he said. “We kind of got it right the first time, [we thought], ‘Let’s really not screw it up this time.’ You really have to honor the 40-plus years of canon and legacy that this amazing franchise had before we put pen to paper.”

Lindelof said they settled on the villain for the movie and decided very early on to say little about him — apart from the fact that Cumberbatch’s antagonist is named John Harrison.

“The audience needs to have the same experience that the crew is having,” Lindelof explained. “You’re Kirk, you’re Spock, you’re McCoy, so if they don’t know who the bad guy is going to be in the movie, then you shouldn’t know. It’s not just keeping the secret for secrecy’s sake. It’s not giving the audience information that the characters don’t have.”

The full interview is here




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