Quentin Tarantino going ahead with his R-rated Star Trek movie

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 25: Quentin Tarantino attends the closing ceremony screening of "The Specials" during the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2019 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)
CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 25: Quentin Tarantino attends the closing ceremony screening of "The Specials" during the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2019 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images) /
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Quentin Tarantino — the same guy who brought us ultra-violent movies like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight — has designs on boldly going where no man has gone before, and making an R-rated Star Trek film filled to the brim with F-bombs, violence, foot fetishism, and the like.

Tarantino has been circling Star Trek for a while, and speaking Empire Magazine, he confirmed that it’s still very much in the cards. “It’s an R-rated movie. If I do it, it’ll be R-rated…There’s a script that exists for it now. I need to weigh in on it, but I haven’t been able to do that yet.”

Now, there’s still no guarantee this will happen — stuff falls through in Hollywood all the time, and Paramount has always been super protective of Star Trek. And here’s the thing: It’s not like there hasn’t been swearing in Star Trek before. The characters Star Trek: Discovery has been known to drop the occasional curse word, but if you’ve ever watched a Tarantino film, you know there’s a pretty big distance between the two.

That’s over 26 minutes of F-bombs. That’s a lot, and this is coming from me, the host of the Take the Black Podcast, where curse words run free like the wind.

Look, I don’t want to sound like a prude, but Star Trek has always been presented as a serious-but-family-friendly look at our possible utopian future. Tarantino movies are more over-the-top pop culture-laden explosions of vulgarity, and they’re a lot of fun, but…there’s a tonal difference.

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I mean, can you even imagine what a Trek movie with him at the helm would look like? Twitter can:

People are rightfully concerned about the racial thing:

Tarantino’s foot fetish did not go unnoticed:

Appropriate:

We want to hear from you: What do you think of a possible Star Trek film from Quentin Tarantino?

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