Quentin Tarantino Changes His Mind About Making a 'Star Trek' Movie
by EG
When it was announced a couple of years ago that Quentin Tarantino was going to make a Star Trek movie, much of Trek fandom thought that the Pulp Fiction director was the last person on Earth who should make a Star Trek. Now Tarantino seems to be coming around to their way of thinking. Read on for details.
Bad news for those who hoped to see Quentin Tarantino head into space to lend his talents to Starfleet: In a new interview, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director suggests that, despite earlier reports, he won’t be getting involved with the Star Trek franchise after all.
“I think I’m steering away from Star Trek, but I haven’t had an official conversation with those guys yet,” Tarantino told Consequence of Sound when talking about his future plans and whether a potential Star Trek feature would count as one of the 10 movies he’s talked about making before retiring.
Never before have I been pleased that a Star Trek has been canceled. https://t.co/ujf9RGqO83
— Leon Thomas (@renegadecut) December 17, 2019
He went on: “In a strange way, it seems like this movie, Hollywood, would be my last. So, I’ve kind of taken the pressure off myself to make that last big voilà kind of statement. I mean to such a degree there was a moment when I was writing and went, ‘Should I do this now? Should I do something else? Is this the 10th one?’ No, no, don’t stop the planets from aligning, what are you, Galactus? If the Earth is saying do it, do it.”
truly, taking “Star Wars” away from Benioff & Weiss and taking “Star Trek” away from Quentin Tarantino so our beloved sci-fi franchises about hope and justice and possibility aren’t ruined by cynical douchebros with murder fetishes was all I wanted for christmas https://t.co/ybAs3JeCRJ
— holiday armadillo stan account (@clairewillett) December 16, 2019
It’s been two years since Tarantino’s involvement in the Star Trek franchise was first revealed, with Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith signing on to pen a script based on Tarantino’s idea just weeks after the project’s existence was revealed.
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