{"id":49064,"date":"2016-07-11T09:24:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T16:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=49064"},"modified":"2016-07-11T09:24:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T16:24:40","slug":"watch-idris-elba-on-being-the-villain-in-star-trek-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/07\/watch-idris-elba-on-being-the-villain-in-star-trek-beyond.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Idris Elba on being the villain in <i>Star Trek Beyond<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2016\/07\/startrekbeyond-krall.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49370\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2016\/07\/startrekbeyond-krall-1024x339.png\" alt=\"startrekbeyond-krall\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-49370\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film comes out in ten days and I still don\u2019t have a very clear sense as to what <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/star-trek-beyond\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek Beyond<\/a><\/i> will be <i>about<\/i> \u2014 but one thing we do know is that the big \u201cvillain\u201d of this film will be an alien who questions the Federation\u2019s assumptions about itself. This aspect of the movie is teased in a new featurette that went online today.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here is the featurette in question:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Star Trek Beyond | Featurette: Krall | Paramount Pictures International\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cLfcip9Em_Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the film premiered in Australia last week, but no reviews have surfaced yet (at least not in any of the trades), and I\u2019m hearing rumours that the film won\u2019t be screened for critics before it comes out \u2014 which, like I say, is only ten days away.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, Paramount did post this video from the premiere\u2019s red carpet:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Star Trek Beyond | Sydney Premiere News Wrap | Paramount Pictures Australia\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-7p3w_pKF4I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Paramount has also posted a new TV spot for the film:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title='Star Trek Beyond (2016) - \"Unity\" Spot - Paramount Pictures' width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w9gihZdrMnI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A couple of new Rihanna-themed videos have surfaced, too; I have added them to the post with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/06\/watch-rihanna-sings-in-the-final-trailer-for-star-trek-beyond.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">her music video<\/a> and the trailer that uses her song \u2018Sledgehammer\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Check out earlier trailers and other videos here:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/12\/trailer-watch-star-trek-beyond-destroys-the-enterprise-and-x-men-apocalypse-destroys-the-world-or-tries-to.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The first trailer<\/a> (December 14, 2015)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/05\/watch-another-action-packed-trailer-for-star-trek-beyond.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The second trailer, the CBS All Access teaser and the \u2018Fan Event\u2019 video<\/a> (May 20, 2016)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/06\/watch-rihanna-sings-in-the-final-trailer-for-star-trek-beyond.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The third trailer, the \u2018Sledgehammer\u2019 music video, and three featurettes on Rihanna and the making of her video<\/a> (June 27, 2016)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/06\/watch-new-footage-in-three-new-ads-for-star-trek-beyond.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Discover\u2019, \u2018Bold\u2019 and \u2018Last Report\u2019 TV spots<\/a> (June 28, 2016)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/07\/watch-mccoy-gives-spock-a-word-of-advice-about-earth-girls-in-the-first-clip-from-star-trek-beyond.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018It\u2019s Me, Not You\u2019 clip, the \u2018Jaylah\u2019, \u2018Kirk\u2019, \u2018Bones\u2019, \u2018Sulu\u2019 character videos, and the \u2018Fly\u2019, \u2018Big Attack\u2019, \u2018Discover\u2019 and \u2018Bold\u2019 TV spots<\/a> (July 1, 2016)<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elba plays an alien named Krall who challenges the Federation&#8217;s assumptions about itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2239,78,3254],"class_list":["post-49064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-idris-elba","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-beyond"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Watch: Idris Elba on being the villain in Star Trek Beyond<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Elba plays an alien named Krall who challenges the Federation&#039;s assumptions about itself.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/07\/watch-idris-elba-on-being-the-villain-in-star-trek-beyond.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch: Idris Elba on being the villain in Star Trek Beyond\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Elba plays an alien named Krall who challenges the Federation&#039;s assumptions about itself.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/07\/watch-idris-elba-on-being-the-villain-in-star-trek-beyond.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-11T16:24:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2016\/07\/startrekbeyond-krall-1024x339.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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