Quentin Tarantino Finally Explains Why His R-Rated STAR TREK Movie Is "Never Going To Happen"

Quentin Tarantino Finally Explains Why His R-Rated STAR TREK Movie Is "Never Going To Happen"

Star Trek fans started getting excited about the prospect of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) directing a new instalment of the sci-fi franchise, and he's now explained why it won't ever happen.

By JoshWilding - Aug 26, 2024 09:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Trek
Source: SFFGazette.com

The news that Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino was planning to direct a Star Trek movie received an overwhelmingly positive response from Trekkies. Star Trek 4 had completely stalled and his R-Rated take on the franchise was bound to be unlike anything we'd seen before. 

The project never came to fruition, with Paramount Pictures now focusing on a new prequel movie with Andor filmmaker Toby Haynes attached to direct from a screenplay by Dark Shadows writer Seth Grahame-Smith.

The studio reportedly intends to still make the "final chapter" of the Chris Pine-led era of Star Trek movies, with Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant) attached to write a new draft of that screenplay. As for Tarantino's scrapped plans, it all goes back to his desire to make 10, and only 10, movies as a filmmaker. 

"It's never going to happen," he tells Bill Maher in the video below (via SFFGazette.com). "There's been so much misinformation about what it was going to be - nothing but misinformation. I live in a special zone and part of my zone is because I'm not on Instagram and Facebook, I'm not creating this constant dialogue with the world with what's going on with my life."

"Consequently, if you're Joe Schlomoka and you're some transient reporter of some kind, if you hear Quentin is going to make a Star Trek movie or a make a movie called The Movie Critic, or any f--king thing, it's a little bit like that guy who wrote the Howard Hughes biography that ended up being a hoax," Tarantino continued. "The thing is, they can say anything."

"My point being though, they write it in a show biz magazine and then that gets picked up in 140 pieces because I'm not shutting that down because I'm not connected."

Last year, screenwriter Mark L. Smith said he'd penned a script based on Tarantino's story ideas and confirmed the filmmaker "started worrying about the number, his kind of unofficial number of films." 

He added, "I remember we were talking, and he goes, 'If I can just wrap my head around the idea that Star Trek could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this how I want to end it?' And I think that was the bump he could never get across, so the script is still sitting there on his desk."

We're still not sure why Tarantino is so attached to that number, but it means we're going to miss out on a few different projects he's been working on at one time or another in recent years. There's no indication that Paramount plans to continue developing Smith's screenplay minus Tarantino, unfortunately.

As Tarantino explains, much was said about the direction of the movie which may or may not have been true, including whether it was going to star the likes of Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, and Zachary Quinto.

Stay tuned for more on Star Trek as we have it.

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ItsNotForMeWahh
ItsNotForMeWahh - 8/26/2024, 9:14 AM
Doesn't he have one movie left according to his plan?

I'm guessing it'll have Leo, Sam Jackson and Tim Roth
Killuminatic
Killuminatic - 8/26/2024, 9:15 AM
Quentin can suck my dick, the little zionist prick. Good films tho.
TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 8/26/2024, 9:41 AM
@Killuminatic - LOL just “good”?
TheyDont
TheyDont - 8/26/2024, 10:01 AM
@Killuminatic - Lol at this random entitled noname
Killuminatic
Killuminatic - 8/26/2024, 10:39 AM
@TheyDont - I love you
TheyDont
TheyDont - 8/26/2024, 10:49 AM
@Killuminatic - Nobody loves you
EnergyVamp
EnergyVamp - 8/26/2024, 12:47 PM
@Killuminatic - Zionist? Does that mean Jews want to stay in their ancestral land? Why cant they stay where they are originally from?
Killuminatic
Killuminatic - 8/27/2024, 12:42 AM
@EnergyVamp - Yes, of course the Palestinian Jews whom were already there can stay. Who said they couldn’t?
BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 8/26/2024, 9:19 AM
SCENE 1

INT. STARSHIP ENTERPRISE - NIGHT

We hold on a close-up of Lieutenant Uhura's feet.

In the backround we hear the irritating noise of people discussing elements of popular culture.
Steel86
Steel86 - 8/26/2024, 9:27 AM
Would watch it just for the dialogue alone. What would Star Trek sound like in his universe. Also he's a big curser; would Starfleet officers be cursing left and right or would other alien life formes be cursing and maybe the crew mimics them. Um...
Spoken
Spoken - 8/26/2024, 9:35 AM
@Steel86 - GOD F%CKIN DAMMIT JIM! I'm a doctor not a f$ucking bricklayer!
Spoken
Spoken - 8/26/2024, 9:36 AM
This to me always felt like a longshot. We had a better chance at getting James Cameron lmao.
BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 8/26/2024, 10:02 AM
Still waiting on my Christopher Nolan Bond film.
EnergyVamp
EnergyVamp - 8/26/2024, 12:46 PM
@BackwardGalaxy - its called Inception and Tenet. I doubt Nolan's films would be anywhere as unique or interesting as those films. Just a film that may or may not be as good as Royale or Skyfall
dracula
dracula - 8/26/2024, 3:56 PM
@BackwardGalaxy - mission impossible

Imagine the practicality of a Nolan/Cruise collaboration

Anything that can be done without special effects would be done without special effects
donlevy
donlevy - 8/26/2024, 7:11 PM
@EnergyVamp - And The Dark Knight Rises. The opening scene is lifted straight from License to Kill. And the plot is shockingly similar to The World is Not Enough.
LSHF
LSHF - 8/26/2024, 11:08 AM
Or he can just drop the whole 9th film thing. Many artists retire and later go back to work. Nothing wrong with that and he too is allowed to change his mind. He doesn't have to hold himself to this.
PartyKiller
PartyKiller - 8/26/2024, 11:48 AM
Tarantino hasn't been involved in a truly great movie since Pulp Fiction.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 8/26/2024, 12:48 PM
Wellp! There goes Sam Jackson as a Klingon.
The1st
The1st - 8/26/2024, 3:30 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - If Sam's a Klingon, he has no crew...he kills all those dishonorable petaQs.
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/26/2024, 1:18 PM
Star Trek is no r rated series same with Star Wars could that be it
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 8/26/2024, 1:34 PM
Anyone who thought this would actually happen dm me bc I have a bridge for sale
Baf
Baf - 8/26/2024, 2:50 PM
"Set phasers to Blood Jet!"
DocSpock
DocSpock - 8/26/2024, 3:01 PM

Good.

MarvelZombie616
MarvelZombie616 - 8/26/2024, 4:13 PM
At this rate Tarantino is never going to make his final movie.

He is 61 and should stop bitchin around.

Look at Ridley Scott who is cranking out one movie every year at age 86.
eddyxx
eddyxx - 8/26/2024, 8:14 PM
@MarvelZombie616 - yeah but almost all of those Ridley Scott movies are terrible.

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