J.J. Abrams thinks he should have just admitted Khan was in his Star Trek movie
Hoping to clear the deck for the next decade or so of dealing with Star Wars-related disappointments, J.J. Abrams followed his recent lens flare mea culpa by telling MTV News he now believes he made a mistake by keeping the identity of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Star Trek Into Darkness character a secret. “The truth is I think it probably would have been smarter just to say upfront 'This is who it is,'” said Abrams of how, in hindsight, it might have been smarter to say, “This is a guy who punches way better than Captain Kirk punches, so it will take a whole lot of punching to stop him,” in order to properly prepare the audience for what they were about to see.