While the news around the comics business has been all Spider-Man, all the time today, the rest of the entertainment world has carried on their fascination with Star Trek Into Darkness, the upcoming, J.J. Abrams-directed sequel to Star Trek.Over at Collider, co-writer Damon Lindelof, best known for collaborating with Abrams on ABC Television’s Lost and currently working on 1952 for Walt Disney, talked about “Easter Eggs” that tie the IDW Publishing comic book series, the upcoming video game and Star Trek Into Darkness into the same universe.”I think that the nods will probably becoming more in the spirit of, if you read the comics or you play the videogames, the nods will come from that direction versus the movie towards those things. If you play the game or read the comic books you will understand what role they have in connecting to the new movie versus the movie is going to be winking and if you played the game you’re the only one who got that line, because that kind of stuff has the risk of alienating the people who haven’t gone for the plus version,” Lindelof explained. He added that the movie had been written before they had cast Benedict Cumberbatch as villain John Harrison, and that they went through and rewrote the character once Cumberbatch was signed to play to the actor’s strengths.
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