I'm not a fan of Star Trek (honestly, I just haven't watched any of it yet), but if Tarantino makes it, that could change.
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Quentin Tarantino Hatches ‘Star Trek’ Movie Idea; Paramount, JJ Abrams To Assemble Writer’s Room
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The difference is that he had an idea for Casino Royale and Eon said no. Here you have JJ and Paramount actively developing his idea for Star Trek.
Not saying he's going to actually direct the thing, but this is much more legit than him pitching ideas for James Bond into the void.
That's awesome, I love how he mentions Yesterday's Enterprise. My brother and I always thought that Star Trek VII, the film where Kirk and Picard meet, would have been better if it adapted a story similar to Yesterday's Enterprise, where the two ships and crews could meet, but in the end Kirk's Enterprise goes out in a blaze of glory as it sacrifices itself for a greater good with Kirk dying on the bridge of his ship.
I think Tarantino could actually write a good Star Trek movie, he certainly has a great affection and understanding of the franchise.
By his comments it sounds like he would want William shattner involved too!
"In the future, women don't wear shoes!"
It would be good. He writes fantastic dialogue and monologues.
It would be good. He writes fantastic dialogue and monologues.
Yeah, this story was less surprising that he would do a Star Trek movie but more that others would let him. As a Tarantino fanboy, I'm not sure I want this, though. Especially since if he directs this, it would be tenth and final film. He could always go back on that but he has been pretty adamant over the years that it's ten and then done.
I still want a 70s cop drama based on Freebie and the Bean or something like Vice Squad out of him.
So dumb. Literally one of those "throw it at the wall and see if it sticks because this dude is famous" type situations. Guarantee you that a Trekkie in bumfuck, New Jersey already has a better script written then what ever any of these hacks come up with. Seriously.
Tarantino was right that the reboot into new universe concept was terrible from the get go. I didn't really want a retcon of TOS. Yesterday's Enterprise is a good example of how you could have done it without needing to do the dumb alternate timeline shit. That said I don't know that I think he'd make a particularly good Star Trek movie, but like all Star Trek movies I'd watch it.
Wouldn't it just become the same as the Prime timeline at that point?
I don't like his idea of a "spruced up" version of an episode. It would have to be an amazing script for that to work.
Nah, not if he didn't die and instead was pulled out of time to reappear in the future. Black hole + time dilation and all that.
I think it was a Nerdist podcast he was on where he was detailing everything he'd do if he were to make a Star Trek movie. I don't remember the details but I know that he was just all in on how passionate he was about the idea.
People forget this but Tarantino is a massive nerd before anything else, haha.
People forget this but Tarantino is a massive nerd before anything else, haha.
Perfect response to that, lol.
Also, man, the idea of this is really fascinating.
Yeah, I really liked the first and Beyond. Into Darkness was "okay".
Same. If it happens, I'm sure it will appeal to some people but this is just a bizarre combination.
Of course there have been rumors of George Kirk's return for a while now, which I assume is why you bring him up. I don't think it would be for a simple flashback, so it'd probably be something like that.
Makes me wonder if they might have wanted to close out the series by preventing Nero's incursion in the first place, butterfly effect style. That might piss people off, though. It would effectively erase the current crew from time and people don't like to see that happen to characters they enjoy. Right now the Kelvin timeline exists alongside the Prime timeline, they coexist. In that sense there's nothing that needs restoring. If they do that, it might be perceived as a net loss by fans.
I think it's nicer to the cast and fans to just send them off into the sunset with an imagined long future ahead of them in their splinter universe.
I can't deny how fascinating it would be however to see the final movie end like Yesterday's Enterprise, with George Kirk standing peacefully on the bridge of the Kelvin on their way back to Earth for his and his wife's shore leave in Iowa. Maybe after the adult James Kirk makes his own Kelvin-esque sacrifice to stop the Narada from ever escaping the black hole due to some unforeseen greater consequences than they've previously discovered. Growing up loathsome of his father's shadow and eventually learning to be the same kind of self sacrificing man as him.
It'd be a neat brain teaser of a character arc with a lot of emotions. But they'd be erasing everyone to accomplish it and I don't know how well people would react to that.
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Would probably need to be George making the sacrifice all over again after Jim gets to know him and they have a chance to spend some time together. Like you said having to prevent some unforeseen consequence, but George saving his son again. Then maybe an older George emerges Frequency-style. Who knows.
It wasn't a rumor, it was officially announced by Paramount before Beyond came out.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/p...trek-chris-pine-chris-hemsworth-1201816258/#!
Since then, I'm sure those plans have been scrapped since Beyond didn't do all that great against the other movies.
I just rewatched and it has to easily be his worst.
Nothing even happens for the first 3/4 until the bag switch at the clothes store takes place, have you watched it recently?
There is next to nothing memorable before then aside from the guy at the beginning getting shot in the boot of the car.
You should watch his better movies like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, even From Dusk til Dawn shits on it from great heights.
So... apparently this is going forward fast:
http://deadline.com/2017/12/quentin...rew-pearce-lindsay-beer-jj-abrams-1202222161/
Must have been one hell of a pitch. Now I'm really curious where this is all going.
http://deadline.com/2017/12/quentin...rew-pearce-lindsay-beer-jj-abrams-1202222161/
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Must have been one hell of a pitch. Now I'm really curious where this is all going.
