Quentin Tarantino confirms his Star Trek movie will be R-rated, full of profanity.
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"Gee, golly, gosh, gloriosky," thought Mary Sue as she stepped on the bridge of the Enterprise.
It's a one-off movie, not a permanent direction. I hope they go all-out and have some fun with it.
I think it is more of "if it is not exactly what I want, I want it to fail so they learn their lesson." And this applies to the concept and execution. There is a large swath of internet Trek fans that want Disco to fail, wanted the Kelvin movies to fail, want this Tarantino movie to fail, want Picard to fail, are butthurt that they are doing cartoons, etc. In some similarly infantile way, I want all of these things to succeed just to piss these people off. I also want them to be good Trek so I can enjoy it, but that is not as manbaby spiteful so I didn't lead with it.
I'm interested to see what QT has in mind for Trek. He has a passing familiarity with the property unlike some other directors they've hired over the years. He didn't say the film would be profanity laden but it will have profanity and I bet it will show a Batleth disemboweling a Starfleet red shirt or two. How many times did we watch Worf hack and slash his way through enemies without leaving a speck of purple blood? Must have had some kind of instant cauterizing agent on the blade. Bring on the "R" rated Trek.
Edit: Five minutes after I posted this Grant Random on SiriusXM Octane mentioned this on his news cast. It's for real now! He says, "With it being R rated we might actually get to see someone "F*$k a Klingon."
(I know, we saw it on Disco, plus it's an irreverent news cast.)
But this kind of main stream coverage is what Trek needs to stay relevant and fresh in people's minds.
Edit: Five minutes after I posted this Grant Random on SiriusXM Octane mentioned this on his news cast. It's for real now! He says, "With it being R rated we might actually get to see someone "F*$k a Klingon."
(I know, we saw it on Disco, plus it's an irreverent news cast.)
But this kind of main stream coverage is what Trek needs to stay relevant and fresh in people's minds.
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Why? What's wrong with multiple people telling different styles of stories within Star Trek?
This far I haven't seen a reason why not except for "I don't like it. " Well, I don't care for QT at all but he can make a Star Trek film. Doesn't harm me any.
Doesn't harm me either but I guess vapid commentary on things that ultimately don't matter all that much is like, half the point of this board or something.
That's how I see it. But... if it is a box office smash and gets rave reviews... who knows? I dunno. An R-rated Star Trek movie is a fascinating possibility. Making an R-rated Star Trek movie just for the sake of it seems pointless, unless the story he has in mind warrants it.
Samuel L. Jackson as Benjamin Sisko and Uma Thurman as Kira Nerys?
spoilers! I am leaking a snippet of the script!
Commodore Decker:
Hello, little man. Boy I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your Daddy's. We were in that Rura Penthe pit of hell over five years together. Hopefully, you'll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your Daddy were, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other. If it had been me who had not made it, George Kirk would be talkin' right now to my son Will. But the way it worked out is I'm talkin' to you, Jim. I got somethin' for ya.
Decker pulls an older style communicator out of his pocket
Commodore Decker:
This communicator I got here was first issued to your great-granddaddy. It was assigned during the First Kzin War. It was taken by him on his first assignment, the first Warp Delta. It was your great-granddaddy's war communicator, made by the first company to ever make communicators. You see, up until then, people just carried smartphones. Your great-granddaddy used that communicator every day he was in the war. Then when he had done his duty, he went home to your great- grandmother, took the communicator off his belt and put it in an ol' coffee can.
And in that can it stayed 'til your grandfather Tiberius was called upon by his world to go to space and fight the Romulans. Your great-granddaddy gave it to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Tiberius's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Your granddad was a MACO and he was killed with all the other MACOs at the battle of Calder II. Your granddad was facing death and he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that planet alive. So three days before the Romulans took the system, your 22-year old grandfather asked a gunner on an Starfleet transport named Robau, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he had never seen in the flesh, his gold communicator.
Three days later, your grandfather was dead. But Robau kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's gold communicator. This communicator. This communicator was on your Daddy's belt when he was shot down in the Battle of Binary Stars. He was captured and put in a Klingon prison camp.
Now he knew if the Klingons ever saw the communicator, it'd be confiscated. The way your Daddy looked at it, that communicator was your birthright. And he'd be damned if any klinks were gonna put their greasy petak hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'. His ass. Five long years, he wore this communicator up his ass.
Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the communicator. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, James T Kirk, I give the communicator to you.
Commodore Decker:
Hello, little man. Boy I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your Daddy's. We were in that Rura Penthe pit of hell over five years together. Hopefully, you'll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your Daddy were, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other. If it had been me who had not made it, George Kirk would be talkin' right now to my son Will. But the way it worked out is I'm talkin' to you, Jim. I got somethin' for ya.
Decker pulls an older style communicator out of his pocket
Commodore Decker:
This communicator I got here was first issued to your great-granddaddy. It was assigned during the First Kzin War. It was taken by him on his first assignment, the first Warp Delta. It was your great-granddaddy's war communicator, made by the first company to ever make communicators. You see, up until then, people just carried smartphones. Your great-granddaddy used that communicator every day he was in the war. Then when he had done his duty, he went home to your great- grandmother, took the communicator off his belt and put it in an ol' coffee can.
And in that can it stayed 'til your grandfather Tiberius was called upon by his world to go to space and fight the Romulans. Your great-granddaddy gave it to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Tiberius's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Your granddad was a MACO and he was killed with all the other MACOs at the battle of Calder II. Your granddad was facing death and he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that planet alive. So three days before the Romulans took the system, your 22-year old grandfather asked a gunner on an Starfleet transport named Robau, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he had never seen in the flesh, his gold communicator.
Three days later, your grandfather was dead. But Robau kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's gold communicator. This communicator. This communicator was on your Daddy's belt when he was shot down in the Battle of Binary Stars. He was captured and put in a Klingon prison camp.
Now he knew if the Klingons ever saw the communicator, it'd be confiscated. The way your Daddy looked at it, that communicator was your birthright. And he'd be damned if any klinks were gonna put their greasy petak hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'. His ass. Five long years, he wore this communicator up his ass.
Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the communicator. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, James T Kirk, I give the communicator to you.
Sense...this makes none.
There's going to be plenty of Star Trek on TV for the next few years, so my tastes are satisfied. If the movies want to go big and weird, I don't object. Good or bad, at least it's different.
Doesn't he want to do City on the Edge of Forever ?
I thought I read he did or it was one of his favorite episodes or something like that.
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