Quentin Tarantino to direct… a Star Trek film?!?

Didn’t see this one coming.

The following article, by Mike Fleming Jr. and presented on Deadline.com, notes that…

Quentin Tarantino Hatches Star Trek Movie Idea; Paramount, J. J. Abrams To Assemble Writers Room

The bottom line is this: Mr. Tarantino apparently went to J. J. Abrams with a Star Trek movie pitch/idea, the idea was met positively, and as the article’s headline notes, writers are being hired to create a script based on Mr. Tarantino’s ideas.

As someone else might say…

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I’m not a huge Tarantino fan but the man, let’s face it, is a talent and can create some great -if often foul mouthed and violent- stuff.

It would seem a man like him is not the person you’d want doing Star Trek but, frankly, I find the concept (here we go again) fascinating.

Frankly, I don’t think this will come to fruition.  I’m not trying to be pessimistic, its only that Mr. Tarantino is currently (I imagine) getting things together for his latest film involving the Manson killings of the late 1960’s (the actual plot of the movie is unknown other than it is set in/around that time) and that movie is scheduled to be released in 2019.  With that in mind, I can’t help but think if he does go from that to Star Trek, it’ll be a while -if ever!- before we see it.

Still, I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t love to see a Star Trek film with Mr. Tarantino behind it, if only for curiosity’s sake.