'Star Trek 2' Villain Watch: Benicio Del Toro's Khan Connection, Peter Weller Joins Cast

"Star Wars 2" news is beginning to warm up with shooting set to commence inside a little on the month, and the majority of the recent talk has dedicated to the sci-fi sequel's villains. We all know Benicio del Toro is within talks for among the key villain roles, there is however another theif apparently within the mix too. Newer and more effective updates around the "Star WarsInch enemy front emerged over the past weekend, including conflicting reviews on who BDT is registering for, along with the enrollment of RoboCop. Get everything and much more following the jump! » Late Friday (December 2) evening, Latino Review's El Mayimbe published a scoop that Del Toro's character is the one and only Khan Noonien Singh, the fan-favorite "Trek" villain performed notoriously by Ricardo Montalban. Nothing official yet, obviously, but El Mayimbe comes with an excellent history for most of these scoops, including posting the very first word on Heath Ledger's casting because the Joker in "Dark Dark night." » However, El Mayime's scoop faces one serious detractor: the one and only J.J. Abrams themself. The "Star WarsInch director told HitFix that reviews of BDT playing Khan are "not the case.Inch Anything, nothing less. It behooves a director to safeguard his film's secrets, obviously, but that is quite a firm denial from the guy who's most definitely knowledgable. Think about this mystery unsolved as before. » In less murky news, Deadline reviews that "RoboCop" and "Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" actor Peter Weller is joining the cast of "Star Wars 2" within an unknown capacity. But it is already known that you have a second, older villain within the "Trek 2" mix apart from BDTcould Weller have arrived that dubious role? We certainly hope so! Inform us that which you think about the most recent "Star WarsInch casting news within the comments section as well as on Twitter!