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Word on the streets is that Quentin Tarantino and J.J. Abrams will team up to create a new Star Trek movie. Star Trek: The Wrath of Marsellus Wallace? Star Trek: The Search for Bill? Star Trek: From Dusk into Darkness? Star Trek: The Voyage Home from Jack Rabbit Slims? The possibilities are endless.
Quentin Tarantino has finished writing the script to his Manson family murders movie, which is expected to be released in 2019. His project after that could be a new Star Trek movie with Abrams, who did the 2009 reboot. The duo are allegedly planning to organize a writers room to whip up some plot ideas for the movie before formally pitching it to Paramount Pictures.
Abrams, who has produced and directed Star Trek movies, would step aside to only produce the movie so Tarantino could direct the latest chapter of the cult sci-fi classic. Star Trek Beyond was released in 2016, and since then Paramount announced plans for a movie focusing on Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and his deceased father (Chris Hemsworth).
While it might not sound like a typical Tarantino film, Quentin is a trekkie so he may be very interested. Tarantino has been a fan since the 1960s TV series and said that Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s “Yesterday’s Enterprise” as one of his favorites of the long-running sci-fi franchise. “The only thing that limited them was their ’60s budget and eight-day shooting schedule,” Tarantino said in a 2015 Nerdist interview. “You could take some of the classic Star Trek episodes and easily expand them to 90 minutes or more and really do some amazing, amazing stuff.” Tarantino added that he would want to get away from the multi-character story arcs of the reboots.
[Deadline]