New R-Rated Star Trek Film Directed By Quentin Tarantino & Produced By Star Wars J.J. Abrams Moves At Warp Speed From Idea To Execution?! Kelvin Timeline Or The Next Generation (TNG)?

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New R-Rated Star Trek Film Directed By Quentin Tarantino, Produced By Star Wars’ JJ Abrams And Written By Mark L. Smith Moves At Warp Speed From Idea To Execution?! Kelvin Timeline Or The Next Generation (TNG)?

It is not clear year if the new movie is set in the Star Trek reboot era that J.J. Abrams ushered in or is set in a different era, but it has been a fast moving week in terms of the Star Trek movie franchise.

December 4, 2017 – It was reported that:

      Quentin Tarantino Hatches ‘Star Trek’ Movie Idea; Paramount, JJ Abrams To Assemble Writers Room

      Already busy prepping to direct the film he just set up at Sony Pictures, Quentin Tarantino is also planning to boldly go where he has not gone before. Sources said that Tarantino has come up with a great idea for a Star Trek movie at Paramount. After sharing his idea with JJ Abrams (who himself is busy prepping Star Wars Episode IX), I’ve heard the plan is to assemble a writers room of scribes who’ll hear Tarantino’s take and begin to put together a movie. If it all works out, Tarantino might direct it, with Abrams producing.

December 7, 2017 – It was reported that:

      Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ Will Be R-Rated: ‘The Revenant’s Mark L. Smith Frontrunner Scribe

      Tarantino met for hours in a writers room with Mark L. Smith, Lindsey Beer, Drew Pearce and Megan Amram. 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. Most mega budget tent poles restrict the film to a PG-13 rating in an effort to maximize the audience. That was the reason that Guillermo Del Toro’s $150 million At The Mountains of Madness didn’t go forward at Universal, even though Tom Cruise was ready to star. The exception to this rule was Fox’s Deadpool, but that film started out with modest ambitions before it caught on and became the biggest R rated film ever.

December 8, 2017 – It was reported that:

      Patrick Stewart Might Reprise Jean-Luc Picard Role if Tarantino Directs ‘Star Trek’

      Stewart gushed that “…one of my dreams is to work with Tarantino. I admire his work so much, and to be in a Tarantino film would give me so much satisfaction. So, if he is going to direct something to do with Star Trek and there was the possibility of dear old Jean-Luc showing up again and doing that for Mr Tarantino, I would embrace it… The one thing that characterizes all of his movies is that frame by frame, it always challenges, always demands your attention, always demands a very kind of open and generous response to what he does. I also love his sense of humor as a filmmaker. So yes, he would be my first choice.”

We’ll keep you posted as the next Star Trek movie plans crystalize.

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