No, Pulp Fiction in space by Quentin Tarantino himself is definitely not going to happen. Image source: WE Productions
A Star Trek film by Quentin Tarantino? Almost four years ago, this news caused a big stir, but nothing has come of it to date. And now the director of films such as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Inglourious Basterds has made it clear: nothing more will come of it.
Star Trek by Quentin Tarantino? Never!
Rumors about the project first surfaced in 2019, which Tarantino personally described as a kind of Pulp Fiction in Space
and was even supposed to get a hard R rating. As early as 2020, however, the filmmaker cast doubt on his vision for Star Trek, until the project was considered a failure by the end of 2023 at the latest.
At this point, screenwriter Mark L. Smith, who was supposed to work with Tarantino under Paramount and Bad Robot, spoke up. According to him, the Star Trek film failed because that the director only wants to make ten films – and Star Trek would have been the tenth according to Tarantino’s count.
Im Club Random Podcast Quentin Tarantino now speaks personally about his Star Trek ambitions and also addresses many rumors and speculations about his work:
[Ein Star-Trek-Film von mir] will never happen.
There was so much misinformation about it and what the film was supposed to be – nothing but misinformation! I live in my own special zone because I’m not on Instagram or Facebook and I don’t have a constant dialogue with the rest of the world about what’s going on in my life.
Ultimately, if you [sagen wir mal] Joe Schlomoka and you’re some kind of casual reporter or something and you hear that Quentin is doing a Star Trek movie or a movie called The Movie Critic or some other damn thing, it’s a bit like the guy who wrote the biography of Howard Hughes and then turned out to be a fraud.
My point is: you can say anything. What I’m trying to say is: someone writes something in an industry magazine and it gets picked up by 140 other magazines because I don’t stop it and deal with it.
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The special forces of Star Trek: Section 31 do not fight according to the rules of the Federation in the trailer
In the podcast, the director does not reveal which alleged false reports Quentin Tarantino is referring to. The filmmaker most recently caused a stir in April 2024 after he scrapped his supposedly last film, The Movie Critic.
It is nothing unusual for Tarantino to regularly talk about potential projects, only to abandon them sooner or later. What was particularly notable about The Movie Critic was that Tarantino was very far along with his work on the project.
The director himself may not even know what Quentin Tarantino’s tenth and final film will be. But one thing is certain: it definitely won’t be Star Trek.
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What hopes and expectations do you have for Quentin Tarantino’s tenth and final film? Would you have liked to see his vision for Star Trek or can you do without it in good conscience? Which film do you think is Tarantino’s best or worst? Let us know in the comments!
