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.
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.Or his James Bond reboot. This shit comes up all the time and nothing comes of it.
Tarantino has talked about his idea for a Star Trek film for a long time. Based on one of the episodes from TNG but spruced up into feature length
Tarantino has talked about his idea for a Star Trek film for a long time. Based on one of the episodes from TNG but spruced up into feature length
I still want a 70s cop drama based on Freebie and the Bean or something like Vice Squad out of him.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.
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.
Movies?
Wouldn't it just become the same as the Prime timeline at that point?
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.Wouldn't it just become the same as the Prime timeline at that point?
He isn't stopping at 10.This is what trips me up about it too. He really values the look of his legacy, because that's how he looks at other directors' filmographies. Even if Paramount gives him carte blanche to do whatever he wants, I just can't imagine him thinking that Star Trek is the natural end point for his directing career. From Reservoir Dogs to Kill Bill...to Star Trek?
On the other hand, it would sort of mimic the career trajectory of low-budget indies to hyper-violent exploitation to franchise tentpoles that some of his idols have taken, heh.
Perfect response to that, lol.
Yeah, I really liked the first and Beyond. Into Darkness was "okay".HELL YEAH
Hope this continues the Abramsverse, which I LOVE. Tarantino is AWESOME so I'm completely down for this
Eh... I just don't see this working.
For now, Shield Up, Red Alert.
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.
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.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.
It wasn't a rumor, it was officially announced by Paramount before Beyond came out.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.
Well, take it up with him
Deadline said: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, and Drew Pearce. 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.