The past two weeks have brought us a veritable bonanza of Star Trek Into Darkness promotional material since Paramount Pictures officially set the film’s marketing campaign to warp 9, starting off with the release of a killer teaser poster. A few days later a minute-long announcement trailer hit the web. This past weekend a 9-minute preview begin showing in front of IMAX 3D screenings of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey while standard 2D and 3D screenings of Peter Jackson’s latest fantasy epic got a snazzy new trailer that features even more footage from one of 2013’s most anticipated tentpole blockbusters. Today that trailer has surfaced online courtesy of iTunes.

You can watch the trailer here below.

Yesterday we reported that Benedict Cumberbatch‘s role in Star Trek Into Darkness had been revealed as John Harrison by Paramount Pictures via the release of a new official still, a revelation that revealed next to nothing about his actual character. Thus the fan speculation continued: he’s really playing Khan….or Gary Mitchell….or Spock’s brother Sybok….and so on and and so on….

Early reports from screenings of the 9-minute preview of the film that will begin playing this weekend before select IMAX 3D screening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (full list of IMAX theaters here) have claimed that a selection of Michael Giacchino‘s score for Into Darkness quotes from music composed by James Horner for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, particularly the theme for the movie’s titular villain (played in the 1982 movie and the original series episode “Space Seed” by the late Ricardo Montalban). Today comes the news, courtesy of Silas Lesnick at Coming Soon, that the new character being played by Alice Eve has been confirmed, and it is a name fans of the Star Trek franchise will be very familiar with.

After months of speculation, disinformation, and a teaser trailer and first poster that left us with no clues but much spectacular imagery, Paramount Pictures has finally revealed, perhaps inadvertently, the identity of the character played by Benedict Cumberbatch in next summer’s blockbuster sci-fi sequel Star Trek Into Darkness via the release of a new official still from the still.

Supposedly the character’s name was revealed in a caption included with the photo. You can check out the still and caption here below.

We just saw a great first poster for J.J. Abrams‘ upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness, the sequel to his blockbuster 2009 reboot of the classic sci-fi franchise. Now comes a first trailer from Paramount Pictures, an announcement teaser trailer.

Usually an “announcement” trailer is very short, and usually consists of very little, maybe some voice over and a shot of the title. Not here. This is much more along the lines of a teaser trailer, with some insane footage and our first good look at just how freakin’ awesome Benedict Cumberbatch is going to be as the film’s villain.

And if this isn’t enough footage to sate your appetite, the Japanese version…for some inexplicable reason…runs 14 seconds longer than the rest of them and has a little bit more content. You can watch both versions and read a synopsis below.

A new poster for J.J. Abrams‘ upcoming Star Trek sequel, titled Star Trek Into Darkness, has been released by Paramount Pictures.

You might be expecting to see some familiar faces plastered all over such a poster, like returning stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, and so on. But this is not the case. Not at all.

Instead, the poster features only one person: newcomer Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the film’s still unidentified villain, and the destruction his character will be causing.

You can check out the poster below now.