Simon Pegg on Benedict Cumberbatch - "It's not Khan"

Not too long ago, it seems like the entire internet world was worked up over Benedict Cumberbatch playing Khan Noonien Singh. Now, in an interview over at the Telegraph, Simon Pegg is denying these rumors - telling us to... "F- off!"

"(Benedict's character is) not just another disgruntled alien. It’s a really interesting… sort of… thing." 

"Obviously I can’t talk about it.”  

“It’s not Khan, that’s a myth. Everyone’s saying it is, but it’s not.”

Now I'm not disappointed, really (although, like I said before - Khan is going to have to be discovered eventually) - as long as I still get my Cumberbatch fix in the coming Star Trek "sequel"!

But I must say - for a lot of us, speculations and rumors/spoilers are half the fun.  Apparently, however, he does not feel the same way:

"I think people just want to have a scoop. It annoys me – it’s beyond the point to just ferret around for spoilers all the time to try to be the first to break them. It masquerades as interest in the movie but really it’s just nosiness and impatience. You just want to say, ‘Oh f— off! Wait for the film!'"

I do understand, and I see his point. I feel that there are certain fans who are nosy and impatient, but others innocently stumble across a rumor and get excited - we want to share and get other fans excited as well.

Although I see myself as innocent in all of this, I can't help but feel guilt...

Edit: The again, what if he is saying this now so that we won't expect him to be Khan and then we will be surprised when he is Khan, if he is Khan? Who knows. Don't trust anything you read on the movie until it comes out - that's what I've learned so far.

Star Trek XII Spoilers Regarding Nimoy and Cumberbatch

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As many of you may have heard, a couple of rumors that had been going around about Star Trek XII have been confirmed.

First, Leonard Nimoy is once again coming out of retirement to play Spock Prime. This excites me greatly, as it means we may bear witness to the rebuilding of Vulcan (or rather, the progression of New Vulcan).

The second confirmation has gotten people across the internet very worked up - and not, it seems, in a positive way.

Benedict Cumberbatch will be playing Khan Noonien Singh.

Some of the arguments against Khan being the main villain are that as this is a new universe, they would like to see new villains. I, on the other hand, do not think that would be wise.

I am incredibly excited to see Benedict play Khan - and sooner or later, Khan will have to be released from stasis. The timeline change only goes back so far, and the Romulan miners arrived nowhere near the 1990s. This means that Khan and his league of super-humans still launched into space, placed themselves in stasis, and are yet to be found. Perhaps this discovery will happen in the coming movie. It is perfectly logical that Khan becomes a major villain.

Many things have to happen now, actually. Not only must somebody face Khan again, but somebody is also going to have to bring back whales from the past. These things logically need to happen, because the timeline wasn't changed far enough back in time for the events causing the Eugenics war and the extinction of the humpback whales to be altered.

Another concern is that Benedict Cumberbatch is a poor choice to play Khan because, well, he's white and British. I feel that with Khan's makeup and some practice, he could definitely look and at/sound the part. I mean, Hugh Laurie has a British accent, but we hear not trace of it in House.

Of course, most of us have seen the leaked photos of Benedict as (what we now know is) Khan. These photos were not, however, of a high enough quality that one would be able to make a deduction as to resemblance.

And what if they are going to meet Khan in the past, when he is younger than when we met him in Space Seed? These things do happen.

My point is, I think it would be interesting watching the historic events we know from the past episodes and movies, and seeing how they might change in this alternate timeline. I think choosing Khan as a villain for the coming movie is a perfect (and logical) choice, and there must be somebody out there who agrees with me.

Edit: Another concern about Cumberbatch as Khan is that it is a "race failure", and that casting him ensures that an ethnic person is not cast as the part. I absolutely understand what they are saying, what it implies, and how it could be seen as a problem. My respectful opinion, however, is that a great actor for the part should not be discriminated against because he is NOT the same race, when they would do the part great justice. I was not at the casting, and so I do not know who was there/what ethnicity the actors were/how well they performed in respect to Khan.