Exclusive: Sequel Title Confirmed – ‘Star Trek Into Darkness

posted on September 20th, 2012, 12:21 am

http://trekmovie.com/2012/09/07/exclusi ... confirmed/

TrekMovie has an update on our earlier story regarding the title for the Star Trek sequel We can now confirm the title that has been chosen by JJ Abrams and Paramount for the 2013 movie. More details below.


Sequel title: "Star Trek Into Darkness"

TrekMovie has confirmed with multiple sources that "Star Trek Into Darkness" has been selected as the title for the 2013 sequel to JJ Abrams’ Star Trek movie. This is a title that comes out of a long process of discussion amongst the creative team. As reported earlier, Paramount tested a number of titles for the film over the summer, including at least one title that did not include "Star Trek." Also noted in our earlier article, the title (by design) does not include a colon, like were used for the past franchise films such “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” "Star Trek: First Contact," etc.

While Paramount will not officially confirm the news, multiple sources have told TrekMovie this is the title they are going with as of now. It has also been reported by ComingSoon that Paramount has secured the domain names to both www.startrekintodarkness.com and www.startrekintodarknessmovie.com, neither of which has any content.

As for the title itself, "Into Darkness" does not reveal anything specific about the plot. So for those who were hoping for "Star Trek Khan" or "The Revenge of Gary Mitchell" you are out of luck. However, "Into Darkness" certainly gives us a hint that this film could have a serious tone and perhaps darker theme than the 2009 Star Trek film. On the other hand the title is also evocative of Star Trek’s core mission of going into the “darkness” of space, to seek out new life and new civilizations. Of course the current Trek team often point to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy as inspiration, with the second film in that series being titled "The Dark Knight" which itself had some very dark themes. Is this Trek sequel Star Trek’s "Dark Knight"? As that film grossed $1B world wide, I imagine Paramount is certainly hoping it is.

According to sources, the creative team are still working on how they will officially roll out this new title. The first acknowledgement will likely be made with some kind of visual treatment, either a type treatment for the title or possibly even a teaser poster or image. Indications are that this official roll out should be coming soon.

posted on September 20th, 2012, 4:00 am

Posted this in the main Trek XII thread a couple of weeks ago. And that passage of time hasn't dulled my initial sharp dislike of the title.

posted on September 20th, 2012, 7:28 am

It sounds like a run on sentence.

posted on September 20th, 2012, 4:49 pm

I hate them. I hate them with a passion, I hate them with a vengeance! And why do I hate them? Ask the Vulcan black hole. This new universe is shit. I would much rather see them either remake the whole Star Trek TOS series and films or just make new ones with the current crew. Sure it's not William Shatner, But that is still better than: the last 150 years of Star trek are now invalid shit that they pulled and are now selling it to us and you know what the worst part is?! WE TAKE THEIR SHIT AND EAT IT BECAUSE IT'S STAR TREK AND WE LOVE STAR TREK. The only reason why I will watch that movie is my love of star trek, not out of how will they cope with 90% of Vulcan population now decimated. I wonder what are they are going to fuck up this time?

posted on September 20th, 2012, 5:42 pm

Screw up? It's an alternate universe, they can do whatever they want, that way they dont have to be tied down to old ideas. I thought it was smart of them to do that.

posted on September 20th, 2012, 6:57 pm

I like this new universe because i like shiny silver ships and new Uhura , other than that i don't care , as long as star trek live on i don't care.

posted on September 20th, 2012, 7:06 pm

I seen this when it was first released, at first I was a little...

But it grew on me, and people complaining about TOS, TNG and the history of Star Trek being invalid is just silly. That timeline is still there, it never got changed... the entire point of doing an alternate timeline was to keep the fans happy by not messing with the canon. Your making a mountain out of a molehill.

posted on September 20th, 2012, 7:29 pm

star trek has always played with time travel and alternate universes. (each series has done them) the only difference is that it didnt get changed back at the end of the film. kinda dissapointing but clever imo

the title, star trek into darkenss..
the title being all in one make it sound like its saying the franchise is going to meaner, going to be less friendly federation and more angry characters.

like its ditching the 'for the good of humanity and the galaxy' ideology or something.. but im probably reading into it to much.

posted on September 20th, 2012, 7:54 pm

You are all corrupted! LIke borg you have all been assimilated into this shit. But no matter what I will stand here, as the last beacon of hope. AKA

Think what you want, I still think this was a shitty idea and I'm done raging publicly on this shit.

posted on September 20th, 2012, 8:16 pm

A very generic and uninspiring title, but considering we've had such wonderfully uncreative titles such as "The Voyage Home" and "Nemesis" it's not really that unique of an eye raiser.

I hate them. I hate them with a passion, I hate them with a vengeance! And why do I hate them? Ask the Vulcan black hole. This new universe is shit. I would much rather see them either remake the whole Star Trek TOS series and films or just make new ones with the current crew. Sure it's not William Shatner, But that is still better than: the last 150 years of Star trek are now invalid shit that they pulled and are now selling it to us and you know what the worst part is?! WE TAKE THEIR SHIT AND EAT IT BECAUSE IT'S STAR TREK AND WE LOVE STAR TREK. The only reason why I will watch that movie is my love of star trek, not out of how will they cope with 90% of Vulcan population now decimated. I wonder what are they are going to fuck up this time?

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star ... r-trek-09/

posted on September 20th, 2012, 8:51 pm

The movie as itself is ok but...

THAT DAMN J.J. ABRAMS TROLL HAS DEFILED RODDENBERRY'S STAR TREK UNIVERSE WITH HIS INSOLENCE!

Its heresy, its blasphemy for trekkies to say that that this movie is an acceptable member of the franchise. If you ask me its right where it belongs to be - parralel, outside. You watch it because that's all you get these days, there is nothing else similar out there directly related to the franchise.

Its like the devil coming to your house and asking to rent the attic room. Since this is economic hardship you don't have a choice and let him rent the room and let him cook those that belong to hell in your attic and put up with the smell of burning meat because you need the buck!

posted on September 20th, 2012, 10:05 pm

blasphemy that this movie is an acceptable member of the franchise

It's no "member of the franchise" at all. It's a re-imagined Star Trek, not "another Star Trek set in the prime universe", which is already crap because TNG:Parallels already destroyed the idea of a "prime" universe.

The only blasphemy here is people mixing up Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek with JJ Abrams Star Trek. These are totally independent from each other and don't share their canon... is it so hard to seperate these two?

posted on September 21st, 2012, 7:44 am

The Enterprise, Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Uhura... yes very easy to separate, very easy indeed.

I am disappointed in you, I though you were a fan, but you're acting like an infidel against this blatant insult of the franchise.

It seems that only me and Zweistein are the only decent loyalists amongst those that have seen this thread!

posted on September 21st, 2012, 8:02 am

While yes, the J.J. Abrams film is about as far from Roddenberry as you can possibly get, the problem with people saying it's a crime against Star Trek is that I personally feel even greater disasters have been committed against the series. Enterprise series with horrible, horrible unfitting theme song? Check. Crappy movie for the Next Gen era to end on? Check. Threshold? Check. In fact, forget just Threshold, almost all of Voyager? Check. Far worse maladies have blighted Star Trek before J.J. Abrams added a little mindless action and flashy pizazz. Yeah, people can hate the movie and sure that's fine, but saying it's a big stain on the franchise is like saying it's a dent on a car that's been wrecked by dozens of bullets.

posted on September 21st, 2012, 11:37 am

We were all pissing on star trek online at first and now almost all of us play , so talk all you want in the end you will accept this new universe and ask for even more, i have a filling that our children will have same conversations defending this star trek universe that we spit on against some new universe that is going to come.