According to the Independent, Tarantino "has come up with a great idea for a Star Trek movie at Paramount" and, after sharing this idea with JJ Abrams, the pair will put together a writers room who will listen to Tarantino's thoughts and sculpt a movie around them.
Tarantino might even be the one in the director's chair, once again according to the Independent.
Tackling an intellectual property like Star Trek would be a marked shift for Tarantino. The writer-director has stayed away from film franchises throughout his career, focusing instead on developing his own idiosyncratic material. However, he has served as a for-hire director in television before, helming episodes of both ER and CSI.
In an interview with the Nerdist podcast this September, the director said he was "definitely a fan of the original series" and "in particular a fan of William Shatner's".
In the same interview, however, Tarantino criticised the recent reworking of the Star Trek canon in Abrams's 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness. "The Khan stuff doesn't work at all", he complained. "Benedict Cumberbum [sic] can't be Khan! Because [Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan actor] Ricardo Montalbánardo [sic] is Khan!"
Tarantino went on to dismiss the idea that Abrams' rebooted franchise takes place in a different timeline as "a crappy lawyer loophole". It remains to be seen whether Tarantino's Star Trek idea will use the same 'loophole', or revert to the storyline of the original television series.
Sprawling film franchises have become so omnipresent in Hollywood that there’s often a sense of dismay expressed when young, upcoming filmmakers with unique voices are thrown into the blockbuster system. The argument is that the aesthetic and tone of a franchise like Marvel or Star Wars is so overpowering that it would drown out, and perhaps hamper the development of, a given filmmaker’s individualistic voice. With Tarantino, however, it it hard to think of any director with a honed sensibility. The excitement about this particular project wouldn’t be the impact that Trek would have on Tarantino; it’s what Tarantino would have on Trek.
Please let us know in the comments what you think of this development, and what you think will happen in the new Star Trek film.
WRITTEN BY Nesta - EDITED BY Eaglesg
SOURCE: The Independant