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Quentin Tarantino and JJ Abrams Team Up For 'Star Trek' Movie (hollywoodreporter.com)
Quentin Tarantino reportedly has a pitch for a Star Trek film, and he has shared his vision with J.J. Abrams. According to Hollywood Reporter, "Tarantino and Abrams have plans to bring together a writers room to develop a film at Star Trek studio Paramount. Tarantino has an eye to direct the potential project." From the report: Abrams rebooted the franchise with 2009's Star Trek and also helmed 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness, before pivoting to Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He remains a producer on the Star Trek franchise even as he readies 2019's Star Wars: Episode IX. Paramount previously stated it was developing a fourth Star Trek film to star Chris Hemsworth as Captain Kirk's (Chris Pine) father, but no director has been attached and it's unclear where this Tarantino development leaves the project. The latest installment, Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond (2016), was well-liked by critics but earned just $343.4 million worldwide, the lowest in the rebooted universe. In a 2015 Nerdist podcast interview, Tarantino revealed that he would be more likely to direct a Star Trek film over a Star Wars pic, noting he was a big fan of the original series.
Everybody dies a bloody death by the end. I looked up "macabre" in the dictionary and it just had a list of Tarantino movies.
Say "Dilithium" one more god damned time!
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Can anybody suggest a good plugin that will ban sites that do that shit? I don't even want to show up in their daily-active-user count.
JJ Treks are good movies, but terrible Star Trek. He took the original series, movies, animated series, and a few books put them in a blender and hit Frappe. What pops out is Star Trek for people with no attention span - it's like Star Trek Anime. The action sequences are ok, and as a turn off your brain light sci fi, I have to admit they are enjoyable. But they aren't Star Trek. JJ did the same with Star Wars, just took the original stories and recycled them with little innovation and nothing new. It's sad to see Trek raped that way.
Rocky XXIV, Robocop 2018, Harry Potter at the playboy mansion.
Iâ(TM)ve always wondered what alien feet looked like!
Star Trek is very liberal. You can count on Chekov being arrested in the movie and accused of meddling in electing the next president of the Federation.
Sounds like your being a wee bit presumptuous.
Attention all red shirts.. /transfer request!!!! DO NOT DELAY.
now is the time to put in that job retraining
will make a great Yoda.
I am 100% behind Quentin Tarantino directing Star Trek if it means Samuel L. Jackson will be playing the captain of the Enterprise with a jheri curl.
"I said...BEAM ME UP MOTHERFUCKER!"
https://youtu.be/9wEnb9yIoes
You are welcome on my lawn.
Who accidentally gets shot in the back seat of a shuttle craft? And will Star Trek language will go where no language has gone before? Far beyond that one swear in Discovery...
I must be severely out of step with my generation, but I despise both these guys and with the amount their films gets rubbed in my face, it's with a passion.
Now I'm a Trek fan that hates nuTrek, this is like a double whammy of crappiness, where nuTrek delves even deeper into mindless action. I didn't think it was possible.
Let's do it.
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sulu is being accused of sexual harrssment ....maybe thats why william shatner really got to him , he mighta turned ol sicko down
Guaranteed to end with a Mexican standoff.
This is good, because I don't plan on watching it.
Everything JayJay touches is shit. Everything Quentin touches is over the top and ridiculous not for any point, not for any stylistic effect, and not even for the sake of being over the top or gratuitous, but simply so you will know Quentin is behind it.
with a hollow meaningless life, whose only joy comes from getting exploited by hollywood
Then have John Woo do the next couple after that. Too bad Peckinpah isn't around, though.
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Star Trek as a social development indicator is totally pointless because the self-describe "most progressive" people would shudder at the thought of an actual 24th century society in exactly the same way the 16th century people would be shocked by visiting us.
Ezekiel 23:20
No, not good movies. No one will remember the action movies of the last 15 years in 50 years. Because those roller coaster action films will have long been superceded by the tech of the day.
OTOH, a few people still will remember the classics and good stories. JJ's name won't rank among them. He does not create good stories. He's the directorial equivalent of a girl writing songfics to their favorite story, which in their mind has deep meaning but is just inane to everyone else. Instead of pairings though, JJ jerks off to the nostalgia series itself without adding anything but modern bling.
Fuck him and those who like his bullshit.
JJ destroyed both Star Wars and Star Trek...never him direct anything ever again.
...have the Enterprise with a bumper sticker that says "Pussy Ship" while a 70s soundtrack blares and people have long rants about gagh then end with a standoof where they point phasers and disruptors at each other while constantly screaming NlGGER in Vulcan?
Here are some lines of dialogue I want to hear from this movie:
Being 1: "You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese on Qonos?"
Being 2: "They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?"
Being 1: "No man, they have a different system of measurement in the Klingon Empire, they use kellicams to measure distance and shit."
Being 2: "Then what do they call it?"
Being 1: "It's a loQ cheb with cheese, only they don't eat it with cheese. Klingons don't like cheese because it doesn't move."
Being 2: "LoQ cheb with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?"
Being 1: "A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they serve it with a side of gagh."
Things to look out for when Tarantino boldly goes where no director has gone before:
- Mexican stand off in space.
- "N" word. Has it been abolished a few hundred years from now?
- Samuel L. Jackson goes from Jedi to Klingon
- Uma. In spandex. Paying homage to Duran Duran.
- The resurrection of a long forgotten film star.
Add some of your own below.
The world really is going to fucking hell.
Please stop fighting climate change. God may have promissed not to unleash another flood to wipe that disgusting species of ours off the face of this earth, but with any luck, we'll do it ourselves.
A fictional character has to save everyone from:
Aliens. Really bad aliens that don't want to be invaded by humans.
Someone in the crew is problematic and has to be reeducated.
People in the chain of command are also very problematic and they all have to be reeducated.
The fictional character will plan, fight and win the long war with aliens.
The bad aliens will have a peace treaty dictated to them so lots of humans can fly over a new tourist attraction.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Hating when preachy, hypocritical show-business types shoehorn their agendas into absolutely everything they shit out == "Bigotry".
Got it.
there will be no evidence
Because STID wasn't one big lecture about the war on terror, right?
It's total chaos, it's unwatchable, and it's time to just admit it: It's dead, Jim. It's all artificially Star Trek-flavored, complete with trans-fats, FD&C Red #2, and NutraSweet, and a mandatory carcinogen warning label if sold in California.
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Because ST:D is literally one of the worse Sci-Fi series in years. Super charged lens flare laden Abrams quality CGI for the first two episodes only but absolutely garbage in every other way. Not that Trek has ever had the best writing, but Discovery makes Enterprise look like TNG by comparison.
You can sit there and bitch and moan about what you perceive as bigotry all day long. But that doesn't' make ST:D suck less, even if it were true to the level assholes like you claim it is. Which it isn't, at all.
All these new Star Treks are the same. Always some cheezy Khhaaaaan like super villain and nothing but weapons fire and shit exploding in an orgasm of over the top CG.
The last star trek is what happens when you let CGI peoples run the asylum unsupervised.
One more like the last one and the Star Trek movie scene is dead for a generation guaranteed.
I'll bait the Startrek fans instead:
Can't wait for the Hattori Hanzo laserswords. (GDARVVF)
When people realize it was just a mind trick to convince you the Earth is round, it will be dead for a lot longer than a generation.
But things are looking up for Allais Michelson Brahe Tesla.
Star Trek Into Plot Holes was not a good movie by any definition. It was miserable. Utter trash. No, it was not enjoyable.
On the other hand, saying "well this may be a Good Movie by the standards of the non-trekkie unwashed masses, but it just doesn't live up to the high standards and tradition of excellence that is Star Trek" is rather strange. General consensus is that at least half of the pre-Abrams Star Trek movies are dreadful too. I don't know that any of them were quite as bad as Into Plot Holes, but then again, there are several of the old movies which thanks to sound advice I've avoided seeing.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The only new star trek is The orville which does just fine even with the comedy bits put into it.
If you need some classic trek then look at star trek continues: http://www.startrekcontinues.com
Which is quite a lot like the classic trek series and well done for a small fan operation. There are a few down sides but it's not like the classic didn't have some low points too (episode 7 was not trek.) They added a counselor which was odd to do near the end of their planned run, but fits in quite well since STNG had one.
Blocks all of that crap. I once loaded a news site I frequent in another browser and laughed at all of the garbage that popped up and ate up screen real estate. With NoScript the site doesn't look as pretty but it's far more usable.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
... like any genre, most anime is pretty bad. I noticed this back when it was really taking off in the US. I used to go to a monthly anime screening at a college near me and they'd show a couple of decent movies and a few episodes of a good TV series all hand-subtitled by the Japanese club's members. After a few years it devolved into, maybe, one decent movie or OVA, and a slew of shlocky romantic comedy, high school students fighting demons, or DBZ knockoff TV shows. The last screening I went to they played a few episodes from three different TV series that were all vampire high school romantic drama/comedies. I gave them a chance and, except for a few scenes of well done animation that I'm sure ate up most of their budgets, they were all garbage.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
Many of us felt INSULTED. I would have come out of the theater feeling better than if I watched them rape Spock to death than the stupid shit they got people to eat simply by putting a nice label on it.
Not only was it insulting our intelligence with empty references, recycling names, and loosely pulling from the story backgrounds but they literally killed off all the Vulcans which was a metaphor for everything Star Trek stood for. They blew it all up.
Finally, it was a rehash of STAR WARS ideas like some Trek hating Star Wars fan was purposely attacking Trek and making even bigger fools of us when some fans were stupid enough to just eat it up! It made me think of the Star Wars fans insulting Trekkies finally being proven correct.
Planet killing enemies who blow up planets.... with super weapons and sword fighting. The only trek like thing was the often abused time travel plot gimmick. The 2nd film was even more stupid than the 1st and I'm just not bothering with the 3rd movie. The 4th movie will likely really suck (while the classic's best was the 4th movie.)
captcha: urinate ... what JJ does on Trek
Milo O'Shea didn't wear spandex in that film. He didn't need it. He had the eyebrows.
This will be a squib-filled Star Trek.
I can't wait.
Part of me thinks this is a bad idea - a guy known for his over the top stylistic violence and profanity epics handling the next entry in a popular pop sci-fi franchise just seems like a bad fit.
However, part of me thinks this would be great because Tarantino's strength is making solid movies with interesting and compelling plots while at the same time paying homage to old movie styles and in the process coming up with a great example of the same.
For example Kill Bill is a really great movie in the style of old kung fu flicks. Death Proof has maybe the best car chase scene ever filmed. Jackie Brown is a great homage to blaxploitation films.
Everyone agrees Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn is the best entry in the series. They tried to remake it twice (Nemesis and STID), with the second time even using a rebooted Kahn, and they both missed the mark. I don't think WoK needs to be attempted again but if Tarantino could pull off a new movie with an original plot that brought back the elements we loved about the old movies, it could be pretty interesting.
The one thing I hope though is this doesn't count as one of his ten films. He's said his thought process is that after he's done ten films he's retiring. Pretty much just for the fuck of it. He counts the two Kill Bill movies as one entry, so The Hateful Eight is his eighth film (it's even in the title). That means he has two more to go. I would hope his entry in a sci-fi anthology movie series wouldn't count against the ten. He's said he wouldn't completely rule out another film outside the ten if he felt like it so maybe he wouldn't count this one. Who knows.
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Abrams? Tarentino? Let's stop playing around and go straight to the bottom of the barrel. if we're going to hire talentless hacks to dig up Rodenderry's skull and do nasty things to his skull, let's go directly to the Master of No-Talent Directing, Uwe Bol.
JJ Abrams Trek is better than Michal Bay Transformers, but it's still bad. It looks great through. Rebooting the Kirk era instead of using say, Red Squad, will always be the wrong choice. However if Tarantino gets involved, I will eagerly await the Capone-gangster vs Klingons street riot that will inevitably result. Hopefully some Kizinti will get dropped into the movie as well.
continue to antagonize them, that will help!
Captain Pink errr?!
Quentin Tarantino seems to be morphing into Jim Broadbent.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
I am ok with this just as long as the film ends with a mexican stand-off where the entire Star Trek cast gets permanently wiped out (and starting with Kirk), just think Reservoir Dogs in space, but on a grander scale.
I'll bait the Startrek fans instead:
Can't wait for the Hattori Hanzo laserswords. (GDARVVF)
Damn you! I was gong to post that. You took the words right off my keyboard!
Uma Thurman (a.k.a The Bride), somehow is frozen in cryo-stasis and re-awakens in the 23 century looking for Bee-Bee's great-great-great grandchild. She discovers that the child has been kidnapped by the Romulans and watch the green bloodbath while she slices and dices her way to her objective.
You're messin' with my Zen Thing, man.....
to star Chris Hemsworth as Captain Kirk's (Chris Pine) father
Chris Pine: 37
Chris Hemsworth: 34
I really hate revisionist plot lines. Kirk's father did a suicide run to save people in the first movie. I guess we'll find out in this one that he actually escaped at the last minute and travelled through time with the Romulans in the first movie, but for some very convincing reason he didn't show up in the plot until this 4th movie.
What could possibly go wrong? More explosions and action, but in reverse, and everyone's head explodes, IN REVERSE!
Tarantino + Klingons - going to be good
Nobody wants to watch pedophiles pat each other on the back after disgracing our classics anymore.
Trek's about to get a lot bloodier than it's ever been.
Not that anyone in his right mind will call it Trek. But that's ok - I think we've all come to that conclusion since JJ's first involvement with the franchise.
...or alternate plot: somebody goes around shooting giant metal pins into the heads of Red Shirts when they open the door. "(shweeep) -- (pop)"
Spock then comes up with methodical solution involving an alternate reality and determines that Kirk is the father of Uma.
This all takes place on a silent planet with terrific big sky views.
Whatever it is -- I predict it'll be violent. Not thoughtful "Star Trek"
and Kill Spock 2
-- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
Pulp Trek
Kill Kirk: Volume 1 & 2
Inglourious Janeways
Sin Space 9
Natural Born Klingons
My vote is for the last one..
JJ Treks are good movies, but terrible Star Trek.
I guess it depends on your view of what "Star Trek" is. The concept of "Star Trek" is very broad, given the vast distance between the original version and the later incarnations. For example the "goodies and baddies" vibe of the first series was replaced by an aggressively post-modern "everyone is right in their own way" vibe in later series.
Personally I loved the Star Trek reboot and it definitely fitted my view of "Star Trek" pretty well: That is to say, a good story with some pantomime villains, some decent actions scenes, an attempt at personal relationships, a few laughs, and none of the actors taking it too seriously.
And, yes, I watched Star Trek from the early days: it was the first program I ever saw on a colour TV.
I didn't even see the last Jar Jar Abrams trekoid thing. The previous one was just a bunch of zap zap boom boom with interludes of manly fisticuffs. No actual Trek. So I've written it off.
Tarantino has been on my personal index expurgatorius for years, so he's not going to be changing my mind about this faux trek stuff.
first star trek film to use the n word
with a film that was internally inconsistant and universally derided. Is it called a reboot when the new version sucks so bad fans are ashamed it exists?
Possible titles:
...and i digress further...
Borg Unchained
Star Trek: Voyer
Beyond Pulp
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
antagonizing fundamentalist muslims is not really the same as attacking muslims for being muslim ... telling a muslim he's a pussy who sucks muhammad dick in order to be protected by the group by NOT standing up to the fundamentalist factions in their midst is a whole other case i think
... if you go shooting people at abortion clinics cos baby jesus bla ? you're a fundamentalist ... if you think people cant do a muhammad cartoon without losing their head ?
you're a fundamentalist ... if you hide behind this, you're part of the problem ... you dont HAVE to be a muslim AND be brotherhood, you don't have to be a christian AND crusade
... its like nuggers who would get back at nuggers making black people look like nuggers (if you know what i mean without getting pc-principal on my ass and trying to get the message)
but what annoys me mucho lately is how the top page of every slashdot post comes down to trump has drones and antifas ... so please don't vote me off-topic, i think the topic is grave ... star trek did have a black female spock and a gay doctor i think last time... so next up we have transsexual black spiderman and latino superman with tits because
EQUALITY !
throwing molotovs at newspapers with a muhammad cartoon should be antagonized, so should baby jesusfreaks who created the world 2000 years ago (so who was grandpa then ? cos he HAD a mother, right?) all monotheism is symbolism for male dictatorship, and so has it been since the roman empire (what was left of it) saw power in it, what was left became the church of Rome and up until today the roman empire rules big chunks of the planet.
i think all fundamentalists who go beyond free speech should be antagonized as a rule of thumb since they are opression
if you choose to be a black panther cos a ganggstar shoots a shopkeeper and you can't touch him cos he's black ? you're a fundamentalist
its not that black & white but i think the ones who have most chance at clearing out the rotten nests are the muslims themselves
what's the REAL bigotry here ?
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?