We haven’t heard much from actor Idris Elba, who plays the villainous Krall in this month’s STAR TREK BEYOND, but overnight the Brit tweeted out a new cell phone photo of himself in full bad-guy costume from the movie’s set.

Much of Krall’s motivations in the film, which has been described as a “well-earned hatred for the Federation” in several interviews, remains a mystery. A recent article in Empire references his desire for a “glowing green artifact” being kept aboard the Enterprise, but that’s not yet been noted elsewhere.

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Visual effects studio Double Negative has been hard at work crafting the digital designs for STAR TREK BEYOND, and as with most big-ticket films, they’re working up to the very last second to get every pixel perfect – as DNeg’s Seda Yilmaz can attest:

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The crew at Double Negative will be kicking each crafted effect to completion up until the studio pulls the film from their servers for global distribution – and from the look of the previews we’ve seen so far, they’ve had a huge job.

We’re looking forward to the final look of STAR TREK BEYOND when it arrives in theaters later this month.