Star Trek 3 May Have Discovered The Only Way to Get Me to Watch: Cast Idris Elba

Jill Pantozzi

Published: Mar 25, 2015 11:55 am

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Damn it, Jim.

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Details are scarce at this point but Variety is reporting he may be taking the villain role for the Justin Lin directed film:

Details of Elba’s role are keeping kept under wraps. Early rumors suggest that Klingons would be the main villains in this movie, as they have not had a full presence in previous installments, but sources would not confirm if that was the case. Paramount and Skydance had no comment.

Ok, considering the plot of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and the Klingon rumors, this would suggest Elba would be playing a Klingon and I honestly don’t know if my body can handle it.

Simon Pegg and Doug Jung are writing the script for this one but what do you think of the prospects?

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Jill Pantozzi

Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."