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:
Even white people are like, "Quentin Tarantino better not use the n-word in his FUCKING Star Trek movie!"
— Fully Dunce 🇯🇲 (@CornmealDumplin) June 13, 2019
Tarantino’s foot fetish did not go unnoticed:
The idea of Quentin Tarantino doing a Star Trek movie is definitely interesting, although if it does get made, expect some shots like this. pic.twitter.com/ODtRv6p1gT
— Brandon Tenold (@BrandonTenold) June 12, 2019
Appropriate:
Quentin Tarantino is making an R-Rated Star Trek movie! pic.twitter.com/Xs6EUtDa4q
— Lil Mark X (@Mark_YouLose) June 12, 2019
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