Star Trek Into Darkness: Kirk Loses the [Spoiler] and More Details

In this week’s issue of Empire, which comes with variant Star Trek Into Darkness covers, they talked to members of the cast and crew about the anticipated sequel, as well as debuting a number of new images, which Trek Movie have scanned.Minor spoilers ahead, so be warned. If you want to skip past them and see the bunch of pictures that were in the story, just scroll down.In the course of the interview, among other things, it was revealed that after having spent the whole first movie building up Kirk to the point where he was worthy to take on the captain’s chair of the Enterprise, apparently we’re back to square one in the sequel and he’ll make some bad decisions, one of which will (temporarily, we assume) cost him the captain’s chair.It sounds from context as though the mistake in question is that he’s manipulated into releasing the villain, John Harrison, from custody for one reason or another and then he and the crew have to spend the rest of the film trying to track him back down to fix Kirk’s mistake.They also got a full transcript from the other day’s Japanese press junket interviews up, as well, with Chris Pine talking about what makes him different from the previous film, and what makes the new villain different from the first one.”I’m different because I am five years older and hopefully a bit more mature and I have had many more experiences since the first film and you can only help that experiences to bear on the character you are portraying at the time. So Kirk is definitely different this time around,” said Chris Pine, who plays Kirk in the films. “The most difficult aspect of this film was firstly the fact that it was a very physical film so the action sequences are very hard and very long. And then I think too, the journey that my character goes through is a very difficult one and very painful to let myself go through those experiences that Kirk goes through during the course of the film.”Of course, he’s not the only one going through a difficult journey, as we get new shots from the film, including yet another photo of poor Scotty (Simon Pegg) looking miserable. Seems this guy just can’t catch a break this time around. And with a villain who’s identified as “superhuman,” it’s not quite the same as last time, when just about everything came down to deep-space dogfights.”With the 3D involved it just makes it that much grander and bigger,” Pine said. “And the story I think gives these characters a lot more room to expand and grow and explore. So the size of the action and the size of the characters and what they go through is a lot bigger.”