Summary
- Quentin Tarantino definitively shuts down hopes of directing his rumored Star Trek movie. It's never going to happen.
- Tarantino worked with screenwriter Mark L. Smith on his Star Trek movie idea, but decided not to pursue it in January 2020.
- Despite speculation, an R-rated Star Trek by Quentin Tarantino will not become a reality. Tarantino clarifies the misinformation.
Quentin Tarantino shuts down hopes he will direct his rumored R-rated Star Trek by Quentin Tarantino has been the subject of speculation ever since.
Appearing on Club Random with Bill Maher, Quentin Tarantino definitively answered whether he would ever direct a Star Trek movie. Tarantino then described how his absence from social media means he didn't refute the "misinformation" that has spread over his rumored Star Trek movie over the years. Read Quentin's quote and watch the Club Random with Bill Maher video below:
It’s never going to happen. There’s been so much misinformation about what it was going to be. I mean, nothing but misinformation…
Star Trek Beyond Ending & Why No Sequel 8 Years Later Explained
Star Trek Beyond set up a sequel for Chris Pine's Captain Kirk and the Kelvin Timeline crew, but it's 8 years later and we've yet to see Star Trek 4.
What Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek Movie Would Have Been About
Star Trek 4 is still reportedly in development
Although Quentin Tarantino dismisses what has spread about his Star Trek movie as "misinformation," the heralded director's idea was reportedly a gangster movie based on the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Piece of the Action." Tarantino's Star Trek film would have been R-rated like his other features, and it would have been set in J.J. Abrams' alternate Kelvin timeline but would likely have acted as a standalone adventure for Chris Pine's Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise.
Star Trek 4 is reportedly still in development with screenwriter Steve Yockey penning "the final chapter" of Chris Pine's Starship Enterprise.
It's possible Paramount Pictures got cold feet about Quentin Tarantino's R-rated vision for Star Trek, but it's just as feasible that Quentin decided he didn't want his 10th and final film as a director to be Star Trek. Tarantino even changed his mind about The Movie Critic being his final film in April 2024, instead going back to the drawing board with a new idea. Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek movie would certainly have been a spectacle and an event, but straight from the director's mouth, it's never going to happen.
Source: Club Random with Bill Maher
Star Trek Beyond
- Release Date
- July 22, 2016
- Runtime
- 122 minutes
- Director
- Justin Lin
Cast
WHERE TO WATCH
- Writers
- Doug Jung, Simon Pegg
- Budget
- $185 million
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