Star Trek Into Darkness Stars Talk About Potential Star Wars Roles

With Star Trek director J.J. Abrams taking on Star Wars Episode VII and the movie set to begin filming next year,  fans and the entertainment press have wondered whether any of the young stars from Abrams's reinvention of Star Trek might make their way from the future to a galaxy far, far away. Well, in the last day or so, two actors from Star Trek Into Darkness have talked about Star Wars in recent interviews, including joking about roles they might be set to play. "I've already asked him if I can be a lightsaber and we're in talks - about whirring sounds and the rates for the lights and everything," Into Darkness villain Benedict Cumerbatch told Total Film. "I thought, 'Yeah, I grew up with them,' and I just looked recently at when they were released and now I'm like, 'No, I didn't grow up with them, I was born with them.' They were a huge part of my background, and my upbringing. I was much more connected to [Star Wars] as a kid, in the way that a lot of kids are because it's immediate storytelling, very simple - a beautifully, outrageously simple narrative in a way - and a wonderful three-act melodrama, opera. And I loved them. I really, really loved those films and I always wanted to be Han Solo. Everything Harrison Ford did I just thought was the coolest thing ever - Raiders Of The Lost Ark was very much my upbringing as well." He added, "They may be set in space but they dealt with every kind of discussion or morality play, or debate about race or purpose and place and identity, and what it is to belong, and the human condition, and that's its enduring appeal. I'm backtracking a bit but what I'm saying is my fervour for Trek was there, I just didn't realise it. I was an out-and-out kid running around with a lightsaber wanting to fly the Millennium Falcon but I think I'm growing into being a Trekkie, if that makes sense" Karl Urban was asked about it, too, which is no surprise given that he just starred in Dredd 3D, another film adaptation of a beloved science-fiction property. "Hands down. JJ Abrams is one of the most extraordinary directors I've ever worked with," Urban told the Irish Independent. "I don't necessarily see the worlds of Star Trek and Star Wars joining but if J.J. called me up and asked me to be a Stormtrooper, I'll be there. I would just love to visit the set and see the Millennium Falcon." Between these comments and the ones made by Simon Pegg, also in Total Film, there's a lot of love going around for the Millennium Falcon. It's hard not to suspect that maybe they know something...