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Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ Will Be R-Rated: ‘The Revenant’s Mark L. Smith Frontrunner Scribe – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: After Deadline this week revealed that Quentin Tarantino pitched a Star Trek film to JJ Abrams and Paramount, the whole thing is moving at warp speed. Tarantino met for hours in a writers room with Mark L. Smith, Lindsey Beer, Drew Pearce and Megan Amram. They kicked around ideas and one of them will get the job. I’m hearing the frontrunner is Smith, who wrote The Revenant. The film will most certainly go where no Star Trek has gone before: Tarantino has required it to be R rated, and Paramount and Abrams agreed to that condition. Most mega budget tent poles restrict the film to a PG-13 rating in an effort to maximize the audience. That was the reason that Guillermo Del Toro’s $150 million At The Mountains of Madness didn’t go forward at Universal, even though Tom Cruise was ready to star. The exception to this rule was Fox’s Deadpool, but that film started out with modest ambitions before it caught on and became the biggest R rated film ever.

That rating was crucially important to Tarantino, who hopes to direct this Star Trek and who has helmed R rated films his entire career. Imagine how this could open storytelling lanes, or even what the banter on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise might be, if you conjure up memories of the conversations between Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, or the banter at the diner between robbers before the heist gone wrong that triggered the action in Reservoir Dogs.

Smith is best known for writing the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed The Revenant and subsequently overhauled Overlord, the WWII thriller that Abrams’ Bad Robot is producing for Paramount. Pearce’s script credits include Iron Man 3, Sherlock Holmes 3, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and the TV series Runaway TV; he just directed his script Hotel Artemis; Beer’s credits are mostly upcoming, and include the Doug Liman-directed Chaos Walking, as well as Godzilla Vs. Kong, Masters of the Universe, Barbarella and Dungeons and Dragons, all big scale stuff.

They will lock one of the three quickly (if there is a front runner, it might be Smith), and the film will be scripted based on Tarantino’s idea while Tarantino is filming his next film about the Manson summer of 1969, which got set at Sony and has I, Tonya‘s Margot Robbie poised to play Sharon Tate, and Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt all having met with the filmmaker about roles.

Crazedwraith wrote: ↑2017-12-09 12:52pm I would have thought parody/homage along the lines of The Orville was more his style.

Crazedwraith wrote: ↑2017-12-09 12:52pm I can't for the life of me think how Tarintion's styling and Star Trek are going to work together.

TithonusSyndrome wrote: ↑2017-12-09 01:39pm Don't blame the studio execs; apparently this was all Tarantino's idea which he lobbied for of his own volition. If it seems like a strange fit to you, just remember that this is a man with a deep and abiding appreciation for 60's film and television aesthetics. Does anything about the Trek franchise fit into that tradition?

The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2017-12-09 01:29pm Although, I dare say the die-hard Trekkies who thought Abrams ruined the franchise by not being just like the TNG or TOS era will be fucking livid over this. If they're not, then massive hypocrisy is proved.

Q99 wrote: ↑2017-12-09 02:03pm No, but.... he's homaged a lot of things and he has some geek interests, if he's doing Trek, he's doing the research.

SolarpunkFan wrote: ↑2017-12-09 03:21pm In my defence: I thought this news was a hoax.

Still "KLINGON MOTHERFUCKER" would be better than a phoned-in Wrath of Khan attempt. *coughIntoDarknesshackcough*

The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2017-12-09 08:38pm Well, revenge quests are a favorite theme of Tarantino's as well. So he might go for some WoK parallels himself. Only difference is that he'd probably make Kahn the protagonist.

Lord Revan wrote: ↑2017-12-09 11:08pm Important question here is what does the R-rating actually bring to the table to make this a better story (or more profitble movie from PoV of the copyright holders)?

After all a poorly made R-rated movie could hurt the Star Trek brand in the eyes of the general public way more then Discovery ever could.

Lord Revan wrote: ↑2017-12-09 11:08pm Important question here is what does the R-rating actually bring to the table to make this a better story (or more profitble movie from PoV of the copyright holders)?

After all a poorly made R-rated movie could hurt the Star Trek brand in the eyes of the general public way more then Discovery ever could.

Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑2017-12-11 04:12pm If Patrick Stewart really is interested in returning to a Tarantino-directed Star Trek film...I am definitely interested. They'd have to set it later in the TNG/DS9 timeline since he's older now, but that can work. Maybe a grizzled veteran hauled out of retirement for one last mission kinda thing.

At any rate, I'm going to keep a close eye on this.

The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2017-12-17 05:49pmAt best, its a gritty SF drama with a Star Trek coat of paint.

Can Tarantino deliver that?

The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2017-12-18 07:55pm Edit: All the quotes, italics, etc. are showing up like they do when I'm writing them, rather than how they should when I post them. Is that just the shitty computer I'm on, or is everyone else getting the same display problem?