The Star Trek franchise seems to be doing well these days, with TV shows and video games coming out regularly, but the movie side of the business seems to be cursed (at least that’s what Chris Pine thinks). It’s been more than seven years since Star Trek Beyond was released, but new theatrical Star Trek projects seem to be stuck in what sometimes feels like development hell.
Perhaps the most important of the unmade films is Quentin Tarantino’s “Hard R” Star Trek, which hired “The Revenant”‘s Mark L. Smith to write the script. Now, while discussing George Clooney’s The Boys and Collider, the screenwriter details the most surprising Star Trek project ever: “It’s a different thing, but it’s Quentin Wanted a particularly different type of story to use it to show that it fit my sensibilities.”
It sounds like Paramount and the people working on Bad Robot, including J.J. Abrams, were fine with Tarantino giving the long-running sci-fi franchise a try, so he and Smith took their time Write a script. It wasn’t until Tarantino began to reconsider Star Trek being his tenth and final film that the project began to unravel: “I remember we were talking, and he said, ‘If I could seriously consider Star Trek Trek’s idea, “Star Trek could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this the way I want it to end?” I thought that was an obstacle he would never overcome, so the script Still on his desk. “
It’s a bit of a head-scratcher, especially since no one forced Tarantino to retire after ten movies. It was a made-up number that he suddenly started rambling. If you didn’t know, The Critic will reportedly be his last film.
Regarding the tone and potential violence contained in the film, Smith confirmed that yes, it feels like a proper Quentin Tarantino movie: “It’s a tough R. It’s going to be something out of Pulp Fiction Violence. Not a lot in terms of language, we reserved some stuff for special characters to tie it into the world of Star Trek, but it’s really the edginess and Tarantino style that he brings, man.” It’s very It’s hard to imagine Paramount executives ultimately agreeing to release this type of Star Trek movie, but who knows, maybe they’re banking on the weirdness and surprises of it all.
For now, the next Star Trek movie should Fantastic Four is the continuation of the Kelvin timeline saga, but after WandaVision‘s Matt Shakman left, the Enterprise crew was scattered across the Four Winds without a director to take over, moving to Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four reboot, who knows when it will actually move forward.
