Quentin Tarantino Almost Made a 'Star Trek' Movie with a 'Pulp Fiction' Vibe
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Quentin Tarantino Almost Made a 'Star Trek' Movie with a 'Pulp Fiction' Vibe (variety.com) 76
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on Sunday February 20, 2022 @12:34PM from the piece-of-the-action dept.
A fourth movie in the rebooted Star Trek franchise will be produced by J. J. Abrams and star Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, according to an announcement this week by Paramount.
But Variety remembers how Quentin Tarantino once approached Paramount with his own Star Trek idea with a "Pulp Fiction vibe" in 2017 — and both Paramont and J.J. Abrams loved it.
Tarantino ultimately partnered with "The Revenant" screenwriter Mark L. Smith, who was tasked with writing a "Star Trek" film script based on Tarantino's idea while Tarantino was busy finishing post-production and touring the world for "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." Smith revealed on the "Bulletproof Screenwriting" podcast in April 2021 that J.J. Abrams' production company Bad Robot gave him a call on Tarantino's behalf. "They just called me and said, 'Hey, are you up for it? Do you want to go? Quentin wants to hook up.' And I said, 'Yeah,'" the screenwriter said. "And that was the first day I met Quentin, in the room and he's reading a scene that he wrote and it was this awesome, cool gangster scene, and he's acting it out and back and forth. I told him, I was so mad I didn't record it on my phone. It would be so valuable. It was amazing." Tarantino intended to bring a "Pulp Fiction" vibe to "Star Trek" with an idea that was a largely earthbound story set in a 1930s gangster setting. Tarantino's pitch appeared to take inspiration from "A Piece of the Action," the 17th episode of the second season of "Star Trek: The Original Series." The installment, which aired in 1968, followed the Enterprise crew as they visit a planet with an Earth-like 1920s gangster culture.... According to Smith, Tarantino's "Star Trek" idea was "really wild" and like "its own very cool episode." The plot included "a little time travel stuff going on" and "had a lot of fun" with Chris Pine's Captain Kirk.
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To each his own. I hated that episode. I've enjoyed Tarantino's films, but I'm not unhappy this idea wasn't carried out.
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Me neithe - I enjoyed some of his work but he is kind of repetitive in his constant glorification of violence, that alone goes the opposite way of Star Trek's vision in my opinion.
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Tarantino does not glorify violence, and certainly not "constantly." Rather, his best movies show the consequences of violence.
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...where the "consequence" is monetization.
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You clearly have not seen Reservoir Dogs.
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Long time a go - I still can't find torture and murders enlightening though.
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With lots and lots of heavily stylized violence?
I mean he's not quite at the point of the John Wick movies, basically ramping up the body count as much as possible, but his protagonists are typically violent people who are really good at violence.
There are violent films that do actually show the consequences of violence, war films can often pull this off (since the protagonists aren't being violent by choice) and you can even do it outside of war if the protagonist actually regrets the violence and its cons [wikipedia.org]
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As if Tarantino ever had a more violent protagonist better at violence than Capt. James T. [youtube.com] himself! I don't recall the Bride or Butch or Mr. Pink ever laying out a fool with a double fist chop. Amateurs!
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"Me neithe - I enjoyed some of his work but he is kind of repetitive in his constant glorification of violence, that alone goes the opposite way of Star Trek's vision in my opinion."
Star Trek was for children, can't have violence.
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Sure, you're very manly for liking violence./facepalm
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To accept that violence is a reality is adulting. To pretend violence will be vanquished by some communist utopian revolution is childish.
ST has several ongoing wars, trade spats, slavery, and even outright genocide; but it all gets put into the neat little package that pretends problems all get solved with diplomacy. That's not a mature way of seeing the world. It's a fantasy. And that's fine.
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The consequences of "Space Seed" gave us The Wrath of Khan, arguably the best Star Trek movie of it's time. At the end of "A Piece of the action", McCoy laments that he misplaced his communicator, and there is conjecture that since the crew of the Horizon affected the Iotians by giving them a book about 30's gangsters, the loss of the communicator would likewise affect their culture. I always thought it would be a good TNG episode if the Enterprise were to return to Sigma Iotia II, and discover the people t
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One of the non-canon Star Trek "reference" books... I think it was Worlds of the Federation... suggested that the Iotians did exactly that. I wouldn't buy into that theory though. It wasn't just the society, Iotia's technology level was equivalent to the 1930s as well. You didn't see those Tommy guns actually shooting phaser blasts, after all. The cars were contemporary to '30s tech. And they were baffled by the Enterprise's ships phasers on their stun setting. So... 1930s tech all-around. And TOS ca
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Bring your own heaters!
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The disappointment with the current Star Trek is it conforms too much to forums in all the bad ways and ignores convention to conform to JJ abrams randomness and lack of story structure. The telephone operator does nor have to be an woman of color and the earth definitely has defenses against a starship crashing into a city. And no one is going to running over the starships. And an office building window is made of transparent aluminum.
The original incarnations were the Odyssey or Huck Finn, traveling dow
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There is a concept in media (both films and video games in particular) called "re-skinning", where you take IDEA A, and IP B, and try to prop up the idea by using the IP as the selling point. That doesn't make the idea good, and it can also tank the IP if it's bad enough.
That's why a lot of "game" tie-ins are trash. Because up until, oh Kingdom Hearts, the vast majority of game tie-ins were IDEA A, IP B. I don't care how much I like match-3 games, I'm not going to spend money on a match-3 game just beca
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While Picard exists in a "post Voyager" timeline, Discovery seems to exist in an entirely other parallel universe for no other reason than wanting to abandon canon.
One nitpick: in a recent episode of "Discovery", a synth body is created for Gray so that his consciousness can be extricated from Tal's mind.
That body is derived from Altan Soong's work, and they made a point to say that Picard himself received one of Soong's synth bodies.
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Long time Star Trek fan here. I was going to say "Nobody wants to see this" but that's clearly not true. OK, three people want to see this - You, the writer and Tarantino.
I have to give Tarantino credit though in playing this with the skill of a Romulan. At first he was saying "I'm going to write it and direct it!" Then he said he didn't have time to write it, but he might still direct it. Then he said no to writing and directing. So if it somehow works, and believe me Trek fans are not ent-
I'd give Tarantino's movie a go if it had been made. He's a great film maker and honestly anything to get away from the hyper blandness that's been Star Trek movies since Wrath of Kahn. A terrestrial bound story set in a vaguely historic setting sounds a hell of a lot more fun and original for the series relative to yet another completely forgettable alien villain with bumps on their forehead.
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I agree. They've become afraid of venturing outside of the tried and true and become stale as a result.
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Tarantino probably loved TOS and studied the hell out of it from every angle - that's who he is. And it's a complete 180 from JJ Abrams' self-avowed dislike of Trak and a desire to make it less cerebral.
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Exactly. Take what made TOS so good and put your own imprint on it. Boldly go in a direction that is true to the spirit yet an original take on ST. Beats the hell out of another evil alien who will destroy / conquer / merchandise the universe until we save it after sacrificing enough RSE.
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