NEWS: Quentin Tarantino Pitch & Paramount Assembling Movie Writers' Room

About the same as Discovery is getting in the United States. Different ratings universe.

 

Kill Keeler, Bill. No, this is great news. All I can say is finally somebody with ideas.

 

How about Kill Keesner?

Groundskeeper Scottie: "Arg, ma wee man. Ar will 'ave ma vengeance!

Okay... after I've mopped up all this blood..."

 

My gut reaction to this is it's a disaster waiting to happen.

It shall be interesting to wait and see where this goes (if anywhere).

 

My gut reaction to this is that if it happens that Tarantino directs the film it will be the greatest critical success and draw the widest modern audience of any Trek film, but will be massively unpopular with a significant part of online Trek fandom.

My skeptical take on it is that Tarantino remains attached to the project in a producer's and writer's role but that it's handed off to one "fresh new face who came to studio attention for the indie hit Fill-In-The-Blank" or another to actually helm.

 

My gut reaction to the news is GREAT!!! Tarantino is a breath of fresh air and Trek needs this; someone who can pump some life into it instead of molding it into Star Wars or whatever is successful these days.

 

My gut reaction is to just wait and see how it develops.

Kor

 

I love the idea of QT doing a Trek movie.

I couldn't care less what online fandom thinks.

BTW: while Insurrection & Nemesis were not great, they were not the worst Trek movies (ST Motion Picture, Final Frontier, Generations, kelvinverse Kahn movie).

 

FWIW: Star Wars is not nearly the same thing as Trek. Wars is almost entirely movie based + fan fic. Trek has 6 major & 1 minor TV series' and over 700 episodes spannig 30 seasons of TV.

 

So, 2013 again.

 

Good

 

The idea's pretty jarring at first, but TarantinoTrek could work out really nicely. (Disclaimer: I'm super biased against the Abrams movies.)
Tarantino loves rich, saturated colors, retro sets, and exploring/exploiting the relationships between characters.
If the R rating comes from psychological thriller aspects, space drugs, some nudity, etc. and *not* constant graphic violence... that's actually very TOS.

Since he isn't a big fan of tech in his movies, that cuts down the potential for silly deus ex machina situations and CGI. Bet there'll be tons of phasers, though, which is another plus for me.
I'm much more worried about Mark L. Smith as the writer. Seems like The Revenant is regarded as the best thing he's ever done and the rest looks like... kinda trashy horror. I've never seen anything Smith's worked on, so take that with a grain of salt.
Fingers crossed for '60s Trek aesthetics and psychodrama!

 

I now think this psychos drama could kill trek for good but can you kill an idea? I guess in a good sense you can.

 

And...we have a promo,,,

 

Hard to see this happening now after Uma Thurman's revelations.

 

It definitely will put Tarantino in a bad light.

 

Yeah, the now-infamous "crash footage" and the events leading up to the incident fall squarely on Tarantino's front doorstep. Such a shame how bad things got in Hollywood and how much worse they had to get in order to finally go public.

 

Hollywood, sadly, is a "good ol' boys" club. Yeah, things have to get that bad...

 

The JJ films made it official-it is permissible to set cinematic Trek in an alternative timeline.

And I wouldn't be surprised if Trek by QT is subject to QT's interpretation.

With alternative timelines permitted, Trek may come to resemble Gundam in this respect.

 

A narly interpretation is to ensue. Does anybody remember GR? He wasn't a son of a suit like JJ is. QT is gonna remake 'Yesterday's Enterprise'? Who wants to see that? Someone should definitely outsource a story pronto.