Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ Movie Will Be R-Rated; Zeroing in on Writer
 

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The Curious Case of Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek Movie keeps getting weirder and weirder. The news itself was the first off-the-wall idea, with word breaking earlier this week that Tarantino had pitched an idea for a Star Trek movie to producer J.J. Abrams, who sparked to the pitch and quickly made this official. A writers room was assembled incredibly quickly, and Tarantino spent hours with scribes Mark L. Smith (The Revenant), Lindsey Beer (Chaos Walking), and Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3) to kick around ideas on how to tackle Tarantino’s approach.

Per Deadline, Smith is currently the frontrunner to land the job, but the bigger news is that this Star Trek movie will be R-rated. This was a condition of Tarantino being involved, and one that both Abrams and Paramount agreed to. It’s a first for the franchise, but Paramount is in something of a bind as the series has yet to really take off the way it had hoped at the box office, so clearly they’ve sparked to this left-field idea of having Quentin Freaking Tarantino direct it.




There’s no guarantee Tarantino will direct this movie, but the idea is for the winning scribe to work on the screenplay while the Inglourious Basterds filmmaker shoots his next movie next summer. If the script is to Tarantino’s liking, he’ll direct this Star Trek movie.

Now, Tarantino has been pretty adamant about the fact that he’s only making 10 films and then he’s retiring. His 1969-set Manson Murders drama that he’s shooting next summer is #9, which would make Star Trek #10 if he indeed makes it. Would he stick to his retirement plan? Would Quentin Tarantino really go out directing a blockbuster written by someone other than himself? I have a hard time believing it, so my guess is A. Tarantino simply produces and/or gets a “Story By” credit and someone else directs this movie or B. Tarantino makes one more original movie after Trek.

Regardless, this whole thing is kind of insane and it’s moving really fast. Tarantino usually takes quite a bit of time between projects, but thus far everything about this Star Trek movie has been atypical for the Oscar-winning writer/director. We’ll likely hear more soon, but what do you think about an R-rated Star Trek movie folks?

Taratino is only going to make 1 more movie after the Manson movie? WTF? Why?

JJ Abrams is a ****ing chode.

as is Tarantino

Tarantino is making a Star Trek movie? WTF?


Is it going to have slow, interesting dialogue or non-stop insanely graphic gore and action?

He is not the man for Star Trek.

First time the N word will be used predominantly in a scifi space movie....?

How many times will they drop the N word in space?

Damn you fish...:cuss:

At 7:35 in the morning no less. Suck it! :D

That sounds like an SNL skit

Naked green bitches?
In.

Qa'Pla MotherF-er

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Tarantino doing a Manson movie...I'm actually afraid to watch that...

I'm down for another Star Trek film for sure. Just hope its a step up from Star Trek Beyond. That was a pretty disappointing film (and featured such a lame villain ) .

I trust Tarantino to shoot some adrenaline into the franchise.

WTF is this going to be? I'm fascinated. My completely unsupported assumption is a war film showing a battle between the federation and the klingons. I can't imagine the R rating comes from sex or a heavy use of language unless they story is incredible.

the fans have been screaming for a Klingon v Federation movie for 30 years. Not that BS Discovery Klingons crap either. It could easily be a great action movie outside of just fanboys.

how is quent's gonna fit in kill bill volume 3? :D

I actually think this would be just the shot of adrenaline the Star Trek franchise might need. I'd be all in on seeing a Tarantino penned Star Trek movie.

Holy ****ing shit!

https://www.space.com/39027-patrick-...tarantino.html

Kirk and the Enterprise time travels to the extended future after visiting his father(Chris Helmsworth)?

Perhaps. But his movies are ****ing gold.

Star Trek is dead.

Tarantino either revives it or it’s dead.

My money is on T.

This could either be completely awesome or downright terrible. There will be no in between.

Anything to get it off its current trek.

I remember on a podcast once Tarantino talked at length about how Yesterday's Enterprise is one of his favorite episodes, so maybe something like that is where he takes it.

IIRC, the 1st treatment of the said script had an adult Kirk meeting with his father in the past.

I'm totally down for a Tarantino / Stewart team up.

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Did you like the movie where he had Kurt Russell play a lunatic stunt man that gets punched and kicked 50,000 times?

whats the dish on Tartino, do people out there really think he's only doing one more movie ever after he finishes Manson?

Death Proof? Yep. I have loved every film QT has ever been involved with.

X2

X3

Sure, why not. Desperation move by Paramount

But im down, its QT

"Klingon, mother****er, do you speak it?"

if it's going to be Tarantino's last movie, I guess his take on Science Fiction/Star Trek would be a worthwhile homage to the genre.

"When you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said Dead Tribble Storage?"


Both Tarantino and Nu Trek blow, so this is a match made in heaven.

I just hope that it's the violence that's R-rated and not the language.

Seeing people ripped to shreds after an attack by alien species is one thing but hearing Kirk, McCoy or any of the other main characters say **** or shit or any other curse word would totally lose most Trekkers.

But hell yeah, bring on the Saving Private Ryan type of violence.

I'm guessing this won't count as his last movie, as I seriously doubt he will have the amount of control he's used to. This won't be a Tarantino flick, it will be a Star Trek by Tarantino flick. Just my guess anyway.

There is no way that Taratino would shy away from the violence in his Sci-Fi adaptation. He's always done that within any genre he's ever done. There is a track record of a lot of violence in our Sci-Fi movies. There is already a precedent.

But, I'm with you on the language. It would be way out of place to have Kirk saying **** and shit throughout the movie. It would distract within the movie.

I'd be OK with a movie in the Star Trek universe that had nothing to do with the Enterprise. Maybe focus on a squad of Starfleet Marines during the Klingon war? Maybe something to do with Section 31? Would be cool to see a movie from the point of view of an alien race as well.

Would give a little more leeway for language.

Never got into the whole Star Trek series, and outside of one of the newer ones on a plane, never watched all the way through any of the movies. Just not my thing.

I will be buying my midnight showing ticket months in advance for this. QT is gold.

About ten years ago I was recording a VO for a Tv campaign at a recording studio in Studio City/Hollywood. Walking back to my car after the session a guy who looked like a fat Quentin Tarantino came walking down the sidewalk towards me talking to another guy.

He gets closer and I realize it's actually him. He says bye to the other guy and j-walks across (4-lanes) Ventura Boulevard. Walking kind of funny almost limping.

He walks up to a late 1970's American sedan parked at the curb (like a Ford Torino or Monte Carlo type car) he opens the trunk, pulls out a gallon plastic jug containing some kind of liquid (hooch of some sort, I gathered) and takes a huge swig. Puts it back in the trunk, and gets in and pulls away.

It was like he was a character in one of his own movies.

Sounds really dumb and out of place. Tarantino should just write his own sci fi flick without all the restrictions and corporate baggage.

Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder on Vulcan?

LMAO Great story

That sounds like something he would do. Thanks for sharing.:thumb:

Captain Kirk " Say what one more time mother****er!"
Klingon Captain "What??!!"
Captain Kirk and Spock blow the Klingon apart with Fasers...

"Are you sure it isnt time for a colorful metaphor Admiral?"

Please Jesus god no Samuel L. In this movie.

ROFLROFLROFL

I ****ing love you sometimes.

And then this music played:

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It's a pity Disney had no balls and didn't get Tarantino to do the Han Solo film.

Because THAT would have rocked.

It would have made much more sense than what they did.

Tarantino would have shot first...

He could play Mace Windu in an alternative universe story.

I'd actually love him to do a brief cameo. Sitting in a red shirt in 10 Forward, surrounded by a small group of new crew, worried about their first mission. Then the grizzly old veteran dives into a Tarantion monologue...

SLJ: "See this red shirt? See this black skin? Ain't nothing but a mother****in' death sentence. You wanna live? You gotta be smart. You do not EVER leave this mother****in' ship! You hear what I'm saying?! You NEVER get off the boat! No matter what the port or planet, you DO NOT leave this mother****ing ship!"

SLJ: "See here. I got this mother ****er figured out. I'm on my very last tour and then I'm done with a sweet ass pension and pimped out ride I built from parts smuggled outta the shuttle bay. The key is, you got ta find a job that they will NEVER EVER need on an away mission. Why do you think I joined the sanitation crew? Bitch I got 16 degrees and 4 nobel prizes. I clean toilets cuz it keeps me alive, never leaving this ship."

SLJ: "You think I like cleaning toilets? You see what them blue folk eat? Maaaannn those mother****ers clog up the pipes all over the ship. And the Captain?! That bald ass mother****er shits out a brown stew you can smell 3 decks away plugs shit up like cement. ****. Cleaning toilets for almost 40 years on this bitch. One last..."

PA: "Crewman Jackson, please report to transport room A for an away mission. Crewman Jackson, please report to transporter room A for an away mission."

“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, M*therfucker.”

Found this interview with Tarantino where he goes full Star Trek nerd. Maybe he does chose Star Trek as his last movie?

https://youtu.be/rzNnfKT6IrM

I really hope he does one Star Trek movie. Would most likely be the best one ever made.

Taratino said on a comedians podcast that he already has a serialized 8 episode story arc written and done for his first TV project after his 10th and final movie is done.

I hope he reconsiders retiring, as long as he can improve upon "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", which was by far his worst movie IMO. I think this is the interview you mentioned:

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I think time will be kind to OUaTiH. It's the first movie in a long time that brought the same assessment energy that The Big Lebowski did, where people go into the movie with expectations and are disappointed, and then when they think back on what the movie actually was instead of what they expected, they appreciate it more and more.

I was disappointed immediately after watching it the first time, but a lot of it stuck with me and when I rewatched it calibrated to what he was actually trying to do it rose exponentially in my assessment. I'd put it in my favorites of his, and I'm a certified fan of ALL his stuff and have been since the jump.

Over time, The H8ful Eight will be his worst movie, because it's basically a stage play in a cinematic setting, just talking and talking and telling stories of stuff that happened elsewhere in a room.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a ****ing classic and easily in QT's top 5.

Oooof idk. He's got a lot of great movies.

I enjoyed Once Upon a Time in Hollywood too. But one of his top 5? I'd have to put more thought into that.

Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Inglorious Bastards
Django
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Death Proof
Dusk Till Dawn

And then do you count movies he wrote the screen play for? Like Natural Born Killers?

Man, he's got quite the selection of excellent movies.

Don't forget True Romance

I know many people agree with you, but I feel it's his worst.

Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Django unchained, and both Kill Bill movies are vastly superior IMO.

Crimson Tide . . .

But yeah, True Romance was his best non-directing writing credit.

I'm kinda torn between TR and NBK, love' em both

NBK was gonzo, while TR was a straight ahead story... NBK a much bigger hit tho

Natural Born Killers was like a bad acid trip

One of my first memorable "favorite" movies.

Dude needs to stay miles the **** away from Trek.

I dunno, he might be a pleasant surprise with sci-fi

Why? Star Trek Discovery exists. Nobody could ever do worse than that.

QT makes a specific kind of film and I just don't see how the tone of his films can ever possibly work in Trek.

It will, more than likely, turn into some overly bloody and ultra violent romp through space and I just couldn't possibly care less for it. Use a franchise that lends itself to that type of writing... like Alien or Predator.

I just don't want him to teabag Trek... and that is exactly what I expect he would do.

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I would love to be wrong though because I love Trek and if he were to make a worthy entry into the cannon I wouldn't hold it against him.

He's the best producer/director to ever take on the project.

I thought I was the only one who hated "Once Upon a Time..."

That deserved none of the love it got nor did Pitt deserve the Oscar, though he was very good in the film. QT has put out significantly better movies over the years.

Jackie Brown was 10x the movie that "Once Upon a Time..." was and never got remotely the same attention.

Hateful 8 was great until that disaster of an ending. Don't what was going on there. Everything after Sam Jackson lines them up against the wall was stupid.

I feel like i enjoyed it quite a bit more on the 2nd watch. Admittedly teh 1st watch left me feeling a bit disappointed. I found a lot more value in it the 2nd time around.

I absolutely loved Once Upon a Time