Noel Clarke and Benedict Cumberbatch boldly board JJ Abrams’ Star Trek sequel
He's returned to our screens as Sherlock Holmes on the BBC drama and now Benedict Cumberbatch has landed a villainous role in JJ Abrams hotly anticipated follow up to Star Trek.
Continuing the British infiltration that began with British funnyman Simon Pegg as Scotty and She's Out of My League hottie Alice Eve is young filmmaker Noel Clarke.
Little is known about the roles that Cumberbatch and Clarke have landed but Variety revealed that Clarke will play a family man with a wife and young daughter while Cumberbatch will take the villain role that Benicio Del Toro passed on.
Currently known as Star Trek 2, the cast boasts Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Zoe Saldana and RoboCop legend Peter Weller as a villain.
Cumberbatch seems to be the go to guy for villains at the moment, having landed the roles of the Necromancer and the greedy dragon Smaug in Peter Jackson's Hobbit prequels, while Clarke was last seen in British prison thriller Screwed with James D'Arcy and Cumberbatch will next be seen in Steven Spielberg's World War I epic War Horse on January 13.
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