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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.
Say "Dilithium" one more god damned time!
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.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.