Quentin Tarantino gives his final verdict: His long-awaited Star Trek film will “never happen”
Quentin Tarantino’s potential Star Trek film generated amazing excitement, and screenwriter Mark L. Smith, who previously co-wrote The Revenant with director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, was also hired. However, Tarantino recently shared that his Star Trek dream will remain unfulfilled, as he finally declared that the highly touted project has been shelved for good.
Quentin Tarantino commented on his Star Trek movie rumor
Acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino has only one film left on his 10 film list as he has claimed multiple times that he will retire after his tenth film. While the director was working on his last film, The Movie Critic, Deadline previously reported that he dropped the project as he simply changed his mind and wanted to keep it as his last film. Now, there is curiosity about Tarantino’s last film, but so far there is no confirmation from the director.
However, Tarantino has his final verdict on the Star Trek film, which he apparently wanted to make earlier. In the latest episode of Bill Maher’s podcast, the director openly stated that the film was scrapped. “That will never happen,” said the Pulp Fiction director. He also clarified that there had been a lot of misinformation about the project and “what it was supposed to be.” It was “nothing but misinformation.”
Tarantino went further into his life, saying he lives in a special zone and that “part of my zone is that I’m not on Instagram and Facebook; I don’t have this constant dialogue with the world about what’s going on in my life,” which apparently fueled the misinformation.
The director, who has already won two Oscars, dismissed the rumor. “So if you were Joe Schlomoka and you were some kind of temporary reporter,” Tarantino said, adding that if fans heard he was going to make a Star Trek movie or The Movie Critic or “anything else,” they would react similarly to the guy “who wrote the Howard Hughes biography that turned out to be a hoax.”
Furthermore, he warned that many online reports could turn out to be false as “they can say anything.” He clarified his point by adding that they “write it in a showbiz magazine and then it gets covered in 140 articles because I don’t stop it because I have no connections.”
Quentin Tarantino’s comments on the Star Trek film contradict Mark L. Smith’s suggestion
Tarantino is also known for making bold comments on many topics, and his recent comment on his rumored Star Trek film puts an end to the long discussion once and for all. However, in an interesting twist, Mark L. Smith, who recently wrote Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell’s disaster film Twisters, previously hinted that the film was in early development and that Tarantino would helm the project.
While on tour promoting the Netflix film “The Midnight Sky,” starring and directed by George Cooney, Smith spoke to SFX Magazine and revealed details of the planned film, which is based on the Star Trek episode “A Piece of the Action” and retells a story idea from Tarantino himself. “I wrote a Star Trek with Tarantino, and that was a science fiction script where I could have fun and go into bigger, broader things,” Smith told the magazine.
He also described how much fun he had with the Star Trek character Captain Kirk, who he said “is always so funny,” and he and Tarantino had so much fun with the title character “because Kirk is just William Shatner, you know? It’s like this: you’re not sure who is who, so you can get into it.” After Shatner, the character was played by Chris Pine.
However, the idea of Tarantino directing was soon scrapped after the director dropped the project. While promoting his 2019 film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, the director shared that he was stepping away from the project as he wanted to make his final project smaller.
Smith, on the other hand, was quite enthusiastic about the project: “Quentin and I hadn’t agreed yet; he wanted to do some things on it,” Smith told Collider. But then he started “thinking about the number, his unofficial number of films.”
Recalling their conversation, Smith said the director was determined to make the project his last film, but then got lost in the thought of making the film his last work. “Should I end it like this?” he recalled. Eventually, the film was forgotten because “the script is still on his desk.”
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