Quentin Tarantino has an idea for a ST film (kind of)
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I'd watch it in a heartbeat if they remade The Cage starring Nicholas Cage as a Talosian, and then call it Star Trek Cruise Control.
I'm genuinely curious about what makes some of you think that he'd be great for this trek.
I honestly think he'd be such a crazy choice and so unfitting. I dunno, but his style and the stuff he likes and his kind of skills....I have no idea how he would make sense as a director of this trek. I have no idea how he would even like directing trek!
I lamented that Lin, compared to jj, seems to have infused the last movie with less "heart" and depth... Quarantino would be even worse for me. Besides, his comment and "ideas" don't sound promising and he frankly doesn't seem to understand the point of this trek.
As for the appeal of his name..I dunno. If Lin got people joking about "fast and furious in space", Tarantino would have people joking about "Kill Trek". Don't make it too easy for reboot haters now, lol.
He's a big name but not everyone is a fan, and even the fans might not see him as a fitting choice.
For me this reboot, if there is even another movie, desperately, I mean DESPERATELY, needs someone who loves the reboot already and is very very very inspired to do more with it and the characters. If it's an unknown name it doesn't matter.
The least thing they need is hiring a big name director with ego who just wants to do his thing and might change everything by doing so, thus further driving away the existing fans of this trek.
I honestly think he'd be such a crazy choice and so unfitting. I dunno, but his style and the stuff he likes and his kind of skills....I have no idea how he would make sense as a director of this trek. I have no idea how he would even like directing trek!
I lamented that Lin, compared to jj, seems to have infused the last movie with less "heart" and depth... Quarantino would be even worse for me. Besides, his comment and "ideas" don't sound promising and he frankly doesn't seem to understand the point of this trek.
As for the appeal of his name..I dunno. If Lin got people joking about "fast and furious in space", Tarantino would have people joking about "Kill Trek". Don't make it too easy for reboot haters now, lol.
He's a big name but not everyone is a fan, and even the fans might not see him as a fitting choice.
For me this reboot, if there is even another movie, desperately, I mean DESPERATELY, needs someone who loves the reboot already and is very very very inspired to do more with it and the characters. If it's an unknown name it doesn't matter.
The least thing they need is hiring a big name director with ego who just wants to do his thing and might change everything by doing so, thus further driving away the existing fans of this trek.
I've wanted to see a Tarantino take on Trek since I saw Pulp Fiction when it came out. I'm an unabashed fan. However, a Tarantino Trek would be its own thing--I don't see how the current Abramsverse version would work with him as director. So, while I'm a big Tarantino fan, I'd like to see at least one more Trek in the Abramsverse (as I really like the cast and the general direction of this "universe"). However, if there isn't going to be another Abramsverse Trek with this cast, then I'm all in on Tarantino's Trek, should it ever come to pass.
I think it could be the shot in the arm the franchise needs, let's face it, it's thin on the ground with ideas, it needs a new direction instead of just plowing the generic blockbuster route.
Yeah but his ideas are nothing "new"? he's just proposing adaptations of tos episodes and criticizing stid for not being the same thing twok was, lol. He said he likes that Kirk plays Shatner and Quinto plays Nimoy....like I'm not sure I even get what he's talking about. I could pass on him not getting that the reboot uses a different time travel device than tos (though this is a foundamental detail because if you don't even get the "science" behind this trek and how it was literally created, you are doomed imo) but he seems to essentially believe this trek is an adaptation of tos with better special effects. Was him sleeping during very important moments of the narrative of the the first movie that he claims to like?
Stid and beyond alienated reboot fans, so to speak, because of the nostalgia. .. in light of his comments, what would even make anyone believe he wouldn't further sink this ship into nostalgia and completely lose track of what made the first movie so great to many? Thus, fail even worse than beyond. I dunno, it seems suicide at this point and like paramount&Co would really be clueless and wouldn't know what they are doing..
For me the only new direction this trek needs is someone who gets back to what people loved so much about the first movie and finally delivers a coherent continuation. A different style, as long it's fitting for this franchise, is welcomed and so are new ideas but it gotta still be an integral part of this trek that makes sense with the rest.
If they have to completely alter this trek, more than beyond already -almost did - (and with not so great results), what's even the point. Just recast and make a completely new remake.
Next Woody Allen fans will want him to direct trek too ^
Well no one is saying he's going to write it, so at this point I'm just commenting on the potential choice of him as a director. Any trek film now is going to have some form of nostalgia with the franchise being half a century old, it's just how it's handled - is it heavy handed like the reactor room scene and spock scream in STID or more skilfully woven like some of the story beats in Beyond? I'm not saying he's my first choice or anything but it'll get bums on seats. It could be a masterstroke.
Well I think it's difficult to remain a working director in Hollywood without being coerced into doing at least one film based on preexisting IP. Despite various homages and retro mashup influences, Tarantino is still an auteur. If he were to take on a property like this (or James Bond or a superhero movie) it would be a major cinema event.
Well played lol
I want to see Morgan Freeman as a Starfleet Admiral giving a grand speech with Shawshank Redemption music playing......
"I hope we make it to Cestus III in time..... I want to see my friend Andy....um.... Jim one more time......."
Oh and Pulp Fiction was on Weds night, AMC I believe
SLJ as Jules was fantastic
SLJ as Jules was fantastic
I hear Colin Trevorrow is free.
Well, JJ was better suited to Star Wars than Star Trek, for all we know Colin is better for Star Trek than Star Wars.
my thoughts exactly. if i was paramount I will just gIve Tarantino trek 4 at this point.
for me this Is paramount once again showing their incompetence with star trek. they have missed a lot of opportunities with this reboot trek aka waiting 4 years for a sequel, not making a cartoon for the kelvin timeline, no novels...I can go on.
Now a very critical acclaimed success director like Tarantino says he wants to do a trek movie and they are just keeping quiet. URGH, IT IS MAKING ME SO ANGRY.
and jj still made a better star trek film than a star wars film
The lack of an animated series is CBS' fault, not Paramount's. Paramount only have the legal right to produce Star Trek movies.
And of course, CBS were waiting until now to do their own thing.
yes then it would not only be Trek '4' ('meh' from general audience esp after STB/'guess will have to see it' from fans) but the 10th? 11th? film from QT ('oh wow better check this out' from general audience/'OMG!OMG! better not die b4 this comes out!' from fans)
It would be such a Paramount move to turn their back on a world class filmmaker (who has now said on more than one occasion that he would be interested in making a ST film) and instead hire the director of The Fast and Furious (everything that is wrong with modern cinema) or someone like him, in an attempt to recreate the Guardians of the Galaxy. A move that was inspired not for any creative reason, but by accountants who work for Paramount.
This is such a no brainer for the suddenly struggling film franchise (after Paramount bungled ST on so many levels after ST 09) that I guarantee you Paramount will not even take a meeting with Quentin Tarantino.
The only way my faith would be restored in Paramount and their vision of the film franchise is if I were to wake up one day over the next few weeks to read that the great Quentin Tarantino has been hired as the director of the next ST film and Paramount Pictures has allowed him full creative control of the project.
The far more likely outcome is we will be getting another director who will make another film full of quick cuts, rap music (worst scene in the history of ST) and dirt bikes in an attempt to attract the Fast and Furious crowd...Star Trek is better than that and so is Quentin Tarantino...#PARAMOUNTMAKEITHAPPEN
This is such a no brainer for the suddenly struggling film franchise (after Paramount bungled ST on so many levels after ST 09) that I guarantee you Paramount will not even take a meeting with Quentin Tarantino.
The only way my faith would be restored in Paramount and their vision of the film franchise is if I were to wake up one day over the next few weeks to read that the great Quentin Tarantino has been hired as the director of the next ST film and Paramount Pictures has allowed him full creative control of the project.
The far more likely outcome is we will be getting another director who will make another film full of quick cuts, rap music (worst scene in the history of ST) and dirt bikes in an attempt to attract the Fast and Furious crowd...Star Trek is better than that and so is Quentin Tarantino...#PARAMOUNTMAKEITHAPPEN
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