Quentin Tarantino as soon as dreamed up an idea for a Star Trek film — and it acquired loads additional than you may assume. The challenge in the end by no means took off, however at Fan Expo Boston, Simon Pegg revealed (through Collider) that J.J. Abrams and producer Lindsey Weber gave him a full breakdown of the concept… and it was each bit as wild as he’d imagined.
“That was what we name within the enterprise batshit loopy,” Pegg stated. “It was the whole lot you’ll anticipate a Quentin Tarantino ‘Star Trek’ script to be.“
Whereas Pegg appeared all for seeing a Star Trek film from Tarantino, he wasn’t certain how followers would have reacted. “I believe it could have been such an unbelievable type of curio to see Star Trek by way of his lens,” he stated. “I don’t understand how it could have gone over with the followers, nevertheless it definitely would have been an attention-grabbing factor.“
Whereas particulars on the script have been scarce, it was extensively believed to be set in a Thirties gangster world, seemingly impressed by A Piece of the Motion, a basic episode from The Unique Sequence. The challenge even had a writers’ room assembled, with Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) tapped to pen the ultimate script. Smith later said that Tarantino may have moved forward with the Star Trek film if it weren’t for the self-imposed restrict on his filmography.
“Quentin and I went forwards and backwards, he was gonna do some stuff on it, after which he began worrying in regards to the quantity, his form of unofficial variety of movies,” Smith defined. “I bear in mind we had been speaking, and he goes, ‘If I can simply wrap my head round the concept Star Trek may very well be my final film, the very last thing I ever do. Is that this how I wish to finish it?’ And I believe that was the bump he might by no means get throughout, so the script remains to be sitting there on his desk.” Whereas Smith hopes it will get made certainly one of nowadays, he doesn’t see it occurring, which is a disgrace as a result of he claims it “can be the best Star Trek movie.“
I’m nonetheless not satisfied that Tarantino and Star Trek would have been a superb match, however I might nonetheless like to see what he had cooked up.
