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Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Will Be R-Rated: 'The Revenant's Mark L. Smith Frontrunner Scribe
After Deadline this week revealed that Quentin Tarantino pitched a Star Trek film to JJ Abrams and Paramount, the whole thing is moving at warp speed. Tarantino met for hours in a writers room with Mark L. Smith, Lindsey Beer, Drew Pearce and Megan Amram. They kicked around ideas and one of them will get the job. I'm hearing the frontrunner is Smith, who wrote The Revenant. The film will most certainly go where no Star Trek has gone before: Tarantino has required it to be R rated, and Paramount and Abrams agreed to that condition. Most mega budget tent poles restrict the film to a PG-13 rating in an effort to maximize the audience. That was the reason that Guillermo Del Toro's $150 million At The Mountains of Madness didn't go forward at Universal, even though Tom Cruise was ready to star. The exception to this rule was Fox's Deadpool, but that film started out with modest ambitions before it caught on and became the biggest R rated film ever.

That rating was crucially important to Tarantino, who hopes to direct this Star Trek and who has helmed R rated films his entire career. Imagine how this could open storytelling lanes, or even what the banter on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise might be, if you conjure up memories of the conversations between Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, or the banter at the diner between robbers before the heist gone wrong that triggered the action in Reservoir Dogs.
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Well it's safe to say this is pretty high on the list of things I didn't see coming, Tarantino is certainly a unique director and apparently really loved TOS and parts of TNG, on the Nerdist podcast he talked briefly about star trek episodes that could easily be expanded into feature length movies (city on the edge of forever and Yesterday's enterprise) so I wouldn't be too surprised if they did a kelvin verse take of those episodes as a movie.

https://nerdist.com/nerdist-podcast-quentin-tarantino/

star trek bit starts at 1:07:25 ends at 1:16:00
 
I hope he brings his twist on ROBs, too many mortals in recent Trek
 
I used to be a Star Trek fan but not interested anymore. I didn't really like Enterprise or the Abrams reboot, and I don't like Discovery.

croxeye said:
on the Nerdist podcast he talked briefly about star trek episodes that could easily be expanded into feature length movies (city on the edge of forever and Yesterday's enterprise) so I wouldn't be too surprised if they did a kelvin verse take of those episodes as a movie.
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So another prequel? :facepalm: Nope.

Why not another "Next Generation" series? Something in the 25th or 26th century, with all kinds of new stuff.
New aliens.
Ttranswarp almost a standard.
Transporters being used between planets and occasionally between nearby systems - also working through shit that would block a 23rd or 24th century model.
And new dangers.
 
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I wasn't really expecting to like Seth MacFarlane's (legally distinct from) Star Trek, but I did, so I'd be willing to give this one a shot.
 
I'm neutral on Star Trek, but enthusiastic about Quentin Tarantino, so I'll look into it.
 
can someone please tap the brakes on 2017 because we're coming into 2018 a little hot
 
I mean people complained about Star Trek Discovery for its tonal issues. Quentin Tarantino's works, their aesthetics, tone, motifs, genres, are... well they're pretty removed from Star Trek. Discovery is accused of grimderping Star Trek but is still derived from Star Trek. I can't really think of anything in Tarantino's works that speaks Star Trek or vice versa. They're both doing their own thing, and its very different things. I struggle to even picture what it would be like.
 
I'm optimistic. I've yet to see a Tarantino movie I didn't like. I figured he'd do a Sci-Fi film eventually, just didn't think it would be with an established franchise.
 
DracoDracul said:
I'm optimistic. I've yet to see a Tarantino movie I didn't like. I figured he'd do a Sci-Fi film eventually, just didn't think it would be with an established franchise.
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True but speaking as a Tarantino fanboy this is basically as far from Tarantino's wheelhouse as it gets. Then again, Taika Waititi went from directing What We Do in the Shadows to fucking Thor so...who knows
 
What in the world are they trying to make?!

Tarantino-o-o-o!!
 
I find it odd that they aren't using Quentin Tarantino's go to screenwriter, the two time Oscar award winning Quentin Tarantino.
 


I really, really loved Beyond (no joke, maybe would rank it up there with Wrath of Khan and Undiscovered Country First Contact sucks fite me) but I don't mind someone throwing a big, bold idea at the wall and seeing if it sticks. IIRC Tarantino is a huge Star Trek fan, so it's not like this would be some insane deconstruction of the franchise or whatever. Worst case scenario we all just ignore it like Final Frontier and move on.
 
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