Quentin Tarantino Nearly Made R-Rated Sequel to an Enormous Franchise: “It was so passionate”
Hollywood history is full of movies that coulda, shoulda, and woulda been. Somewhere along the line, something goes awry. Maybe it’s the loss of financing or headlining stars. Maybe it’s money (I’ll never get over Guillermo del Toro’s canceled At the Mountains of Madness adaptation).
Sometimes, executives and creatives simply can’t agree on a path forward, and a project is scrapped before it even had time to breathe. Occasionally, those long-gestating projects are dredged up. Titles like The Meg and its sequel were in development hell (a great podcast, I hear) for decades before releasing, and this summer’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter, love it or hate it, is a remarkable case study in endurance— Bragi Schut Jr. wrote the spec script in the early 1990s. Now, it seems we might have missed out on another indelible-sounding project; Quentin Tarantino’s R-rated Star Trek.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, filmmaker Lindsey Anderson Beer talked about her Stephen King prequel film, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, and her experience in the writer’s room where Quentin Tarantino once expounded for twenty minutes on what his R-rated Star Trek could be. See what Beer had to say below:
“So he listened to us patiently and just kind of nodded his head, and then he took out his notebook and started talking for 20 minutes with lines of dialogue and passionate ideas that he’d already written. It wasn’t really a story yet; they were just random thoughts he had on a movie, but it was so passionate and so wonderful.”
Quentin Tarantino first pitched J.J. Abrams the idea in 2017, and while series stars Patrick Stewart and William Shatner were reportedly interested, Tarantino stepped away in 2020 after the release of revisionist Hollywood opus Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Presently, Tarantino’s forthcoming The Movie Critic is reportedly his last feature.
What do you think? Would you watch an R-rated Star Trek by Quentin Tarantino? Let me know over on Twitter @Chadiscollins!
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