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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.
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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.
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.
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!"
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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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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.
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.
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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.
What can I say? I am a simple man. But at least I was able to figure out how to get a Slashdot account.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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"
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.
I'll bait the Startrek fans instead:
Can't wait for the Hattori Hanzo laserswords. (GDARVVF)
You forgot Jaws the Seventh Awakening.
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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.
Milo O'Shea didn't wear spandex in that film. He didn't need it. He had the eyebrows.
And Blade Drummer a story about a vampire drummer replicant.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
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.
I was thinking the same thing. Tarantino films universally lack any form of intelligence.
I recently accidentally watched a Tarantino film. See I generally don't recognize him except as "That guy who is always in some shitty movie" so I didn't think to just turn it off. I spent 2 hours wondering where the plot was... if there was a plot etc... somehow the guy mixes almost French soap opera style drama with completely gratuitous violence and some inanely stupid "didn't you see this coming?" kind of toss in.
I would honestly rather see the whole series die rather than see Tarantino take his "I would have written porn parodies but then I wouldn't get to press up against Travolta" writing and directing butchery to the series.
Tarantino films universally lack any form of intelligence.
They heavily draw on existing material but there's clearly value add and his early work was put together very intelligently, even if the films themselves were very accessible.
I spent 2 hours wondering where the plot was... if there was a plot etc...
Interesting. Which film was it?
See I generally don't recognize him except as "That guy who is always in some shitty movie" so I didn't think to just turn it off.
Wait? You think of Tarantino as an actor in shitty films but also think Tarantino films lack intelligence?
It seems you're suggesting that you class a film as a Tarantino film if he's acting in it, unlike the rest of the planet who would generally prioritise the films he's written and/or directed. He does sometimes act in those too but..
rather than see Tarantino take his "I would have written porn parodies but then I wouldn't get to press up against Travolta" writing and directing butchery
Oh, I see. You just don't have a fucking clue. Where the fuck is the porn (parody or otherwise) in Reservoir Dogs, True Romance or Hateful Eight?
Don't be so mad. Life is too short.
You are welcome on my lawn.
That certainly is one way to look at it. You shall permit me to think they have a form of intelligence you just lack the imagination to recognize... Or lack the form itself altogether.
I bet you wouldn't get Metallica songs either. Some things just speak through the atmosphere they create, man. If you keep looking for direct in your face meaning in everything, you might miss the most profoundly moving experiences altogether.
That being said it's still JJ Abrams and Tarantino might manage to get Uma Thurman in there so there is enough scary potential here. I'm kinda left feeling like Fry or Brannigan when they were told they'd be killed by snu-snu.
These guys think they are Jesus.
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with a hollow meaningless life, whose only joy comes from getting exploited by hollywood
Well someone's a grumpy little bear this morning.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
JJ Abrams Trek is better than Michal Bay Transformers
Since sawing off your own penis with a rusty breadknife is better than Michael Bay's Transformers, this is really not saying much.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
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.
Don't forget Sharknado 2018. I'm sure there's some witty pun they'll toss in the real title like Sharknado 6: Irma Gonna Eat You.
"Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
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.....
Tarantino and JJ Abrams are the two worse "big name" producers in Hollywood. Abrams is king of the cheesy and unrealistic. No matter how big a budget he has his pictures always have a very "cheap" feel to them. They feel like cheap acting and production... almost like bad fanfics (even when he is doing something "original".
I think your observation of Tarantino is spot on; although, I would add that he also has long stretches of mundane boringness in his flicks. Stretches where the characters talk about something really mundane, that has no bearing on the plot, for what feels like hours.
So Tarantino/Abrams together would produce a really boring film that feels cheap and non-immersive, where people talk about crap like folding laundry for 30 minute stretches followed by a bunch of random violence that has nothing to do with the plot.
I'll pass... sounds even worse than the last 3 Trek films.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Oh, I see. You just don't have a fucking clue. Where the fuck is the porn (parody or otherwise) in Reservoir Dogs, True Romance or Hateful Eight?
I think he is talking about the writing style. Tarantino's plots may not have "porn" in them, but they're really poorly written and the story is about as relevant as a story from a porn parody.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Cattlestar Galactica, a story about humanities last hold, running away from an army of superior robot cattle.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
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!
"My life sucks, I'm so emooooooo-ah!"
Wait, were you talking about before or after that bus crashed?
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
we had one who was close to that attitude already. his name was Benjamin Sisko.
...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"
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-- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
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.
Possible titles:
...and i digress further...
Borg Unchained
Star Trek: Voyer
Beyond Pulp
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
Sisko took less and less shit the further the seasons went on.
Q: "You hit me! Picard never hit me!"
Sisko: "I'm not Picard."
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 ?
After, I think?
Never been a fanboy so I don't care what the influences are. I just enjoy the more hard-rock albums as opposed to the thrash metal.
And I think your take on this is interesting. For me, Metallica gives me vibes of thoughtfulness... Emo I have yet to associate with them. But to each their own :).